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shorter, linear obtuse, more or less connate with the dorsal sepal 

 into a hood, lip oblong, crisped, base 1 saccate, 2-glandular, tip 

 dilated, retuse or apicnlate, disk hairy, pollinia cohering, clavate. 



Flowers appear in the cold weather. 



Distribution. — Said by T. Cooke to be very" rare in the Bombay Pre- 

 sidency. It has been recorded from the Konkan, [Ghats] of the Southern 

 Mahratta Country and North Kanara by Stocks, Dalzell and Gibson. 

 It has been found on the higher elevations of the Nilgiri Hills, and is 

 common along the Himalayas. It also occurs in Ceylon. Central and 

 Northern Asia, China, Java, Australia and New Zealand. 



27. Zeuxine. 



Terrestrial herbs, stems creeping below, fleshy. Leaves mem- 

 branous, scattered. Floviers small, spicate, sepals subequal, dorsal 

 concave, forming a hood with the petals, lateral free, petals like the 

 dorsal sepal, lip adnate to the base'of the column, boat-shaped or 

 saccate, terminal lobe shortly clawed or sessile, entire. 2-lobed or 

 2-winged, sac with 2 colli or splits near the base within column 

 which is very short, 2-keeled or winged in front, stigmas 2, lateral, 

 distant, anther membranous, its cells contiguous, pollinia pear-shaped, 

 attached by an oblong gland to the erect rostellum. 



Leaves linear, sessile, lip hammer headed... 1. Z. sulcata. 



Leaves ovate petiolate, lip with a deep 2- 



lobed obovate, wedge-shaped midlobe ... 2.7a. longilabris. 



1. Zeuxine sulcata, Lindl.; Fl. Br. Ind., VI, p. 106 ; T. Cooke, 

 Fl. of Bombay, II, p. 708. 



Plant 2 to 12 inches high. Leaves 1 to 2 inches long, linear 

 acuminate, erect, sessile on the sheaths, gradually passing into the 

 linear bracts upwards. Racemes.^ to 2 inches long, densely flower- 

 ed, sepals unequal, white, dorsal ^ inch long, concave, ovate 

 obtuse, lateral smaller, obliquely ovate-oblong subobtuse, petals 

 white, slightly shorter than the dorsal sepal, falcately oblong 

 obtuse, forming a hood over the column with the dorsal sepal, lip 

 yellow, equalling the sepals, boat-shaped, contracted into a short 

 pubescent claw bearing a hammer-headed terminal lobe, column 

 short, with 2 wings at its apex covering the anther, pollinia; clavate^ 

 sessile on an oblong gland. 



Flowers during the cold season. 



