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Leaves green, glabrous, veins 7 or 9, sepals 



and petals greenish brown, Up 3-lobed, pink. 2. P. carinata. 



1. Pogonia plicata, Lindl. ; Fl. Br. Ind., VI., p. 119 ; T. Cooke, 

 Fl. of Bombay, II, p. 707. 



Tuber globose, f inch in diameter, tuberiferons suckers springing 

 from the petiole into the soil. Leaf orbicular cordate, about 4 to 

 5 inches in diameter, dark brown purple on the upper surface which 

 is densely covered with thick, stiff, vinous coloured hairs, sinus 

 folded, under surface lurid vinous purple, also clothed with the same 

 hairs as on upper surface, veins arched flabellate, about 15 in num- 

 ber, raised on both surfaces, not channelled but slightly winged on 

 lower surface. 8 cape slender, 3 inches long, invested with sheaths, 

 the lower of these short, truncate, the upper elongate with a free, 

 linear acuminate blade as long as the sheath. Flowers 2 on each 

 scape, nodding, 2 inches and over in diameter, semi-patent, brac- 

 teoles small, very shortly sheathing, 2-or more-sected, ovary short, 

 stout, inversely top-shaped, 6-keeled, sepals linear-oblanceolate, 

 smoky white, tips falcate, nerves brown, petals similar but broader, 

 lip with entire margins, f inch long, embracing the column, bright 

 rose, with darker veins, a stout, white, linear callus passing through 

 the centre to the dilated emarginate tip, where the margins are 

 strongly recurved, column club-shaped, anther cup-shaped, rostellum 

 obscure, stigma scarcely depressed. 



Flowers appear immediately on the setting in of the rains about the mid- 

 dle of June. They survive a very few days only and are followed by the 

 leaves which lie spread out on the ground. 



Distribution. — Throughout the Western Ghats, more especially so to the 

 southward, Bengal, Mysore and Western Peninsula generally. 



2. Pogonia carinata, Lindl. ; Fl. Br. Ind., VI, p. 121 ; 

 T. Cooke, Fl. of Bombay, II, p. 707 ; Bah. and Gibs., p. 270. 



Tuber warted, globose, \ inch in diameter, tuberiferous 

 suckers springing from the petiole into the soil. Leaf 2| 

 inches in diameter, orbicular cuspidate, deeply cordate, green 

 and glabrous, nerves 7 to 9, brown, petiole purple, 1^ inch long, 

 flowers nodding, solitary, on scapes 3 inches long, lower bracts 

 elongate, sheathing, upper below the flower, shorter, with an 

 acuminate tip about ^ inch long, sepals said petals spreading, similar, 





