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THE ORCHIDS OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY. 



By G. A. Gammie, p.l.s. 

 Part III. (With Plate II.) 

 {Continued from page 569 of Vol. XVI.) 



5. Dexdrobitjm barbatulum, Lindl. Fl. Br. Ind , V M 719 ; Dalz. 

 and Gibs., p. 261. 



Stems usually more robust and shorter than the last, also bearing- 

 flowers on the second year's leafless steins. Leaves lanceolate 

 acuminate. 3 to 4 inches long, racemes lateral and terminal, many 

 flowered, bracts very small. Flowers 1 inch in diameter, white more or 

 less suffused with rose, dorsal sepal narrow, lateral lanceolate falcate, 

 petals larger elliptic lanceolate, spur conical acute, Up flat, side lobes 

 enclosing the ovary short, midlobe large ovate acute, disk hairy and 

 with a short ridge between the side lobes. 



Distribution. — Throughout the Ghats and Konkan to Coorg. It flowers 

 during the hot weather from March to May. 



Plate II. Fig. 1. An entire plant. Fig. 2. Li}) (enlarged). Fig. o. 

 Column (enlarged). Fig. 4. Pollen masses and cap (enlarged). This is 

 an unusually bright-coloured specimen drawn by Mr. Bhide. The 

 colour has been exaggerated in reproduction. As a rule the flowers 

 are only flushed with rose-pink. They are fragrant and have the habit 

 of almost closing up in the evenings and during the night, a fact which 

 I have never observed in any other orchid. 



[2. Dendrobium barbatulum, Lindl. — 



The native name of this plant is not known. "Bechu, " or " Nangli," is the 

 native name of D. crepidatum, Lindl. Dalzell and Gibson say that it is 

 common in the North and South Konkans. Mr. H. M. Birdwood has found it 

 on the Matheran Hill. Hooker says, at p. 719, Fl. B. I., that the flowers are 

 whitish. They are generally pale pink, and shining bright in appearance, 

 when fresh. The brightness vanishes in drying. Unfortunately, our plate is 

 printed by Mintern Bros, in a deeper pink colour. This pink colour, deeper 

 than natural, is often met with when the flowers have remained in bloom 

 for some time under a strong sun after the first opening of the flowers. 

 They are to be met with in Thana on the branches of the Mango in a 

 bed of Lichen, named generically the Parmelias. It is found in Dapoli 

 (Ratnagiri District). A couple of plants of this species were brought to me 

 from Dapoli in 1904 by Mr. T. S. Greenaway, then the District Superintendent 

 of Police, Ratnagiri District. The plants flowered in my Outram House 

 Gardeu, under a shed of cocoanut palm jhowlis in the open air at the beginning 

 of the hot weather, March of 1904. I am therefore able to say that the 



