ORCHIDS OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY. 601 



Distribution. — The commonest ground orchid in India, more especially in 

 damp localities, found throughout the whole country and extending into 

 Ceylon, Java, China, Japan and Philippines. 



2. Zeuxine longilabris, Benth.; Fl. Br. Ltd., VI, p. 107 ; T. 

 Cooke, Fl. of Bombay, II, p. 709 ; Monochilus longilabre, Lindl.; 

 Dab:, and Gibs., p. 271. 



Plant slender, about G to 10 inches high. leaves few, distant, 

 1 to 1-g- inch long, shortly stalked, ovate or ovate-oblong, acute, 

 base rounded. Scape 4 to 10 inches long, slender, pubescent, 

 with 2 or 3 distant lanceolate sheaths, flowers few, on a glandular 

 pubescent rachis, bracts about equalling the pubescent ovary, sepals 

 ^ inch long, pubescent, green, oblong obtuse, petals white, ^ inch 

 long, lip ^ inch long, with a data which is saccate at the base, sac 

 with 2 spurs within, terminal lobe obovate cuneate, deeply 2-lobed, 

 lobes toothed on the outer margin, anther beaked, pollinia pear- 

 shaped, adnate for about two-thirds of their length to the linear 

 appendage of the small gland,. 



Distribution. — Seems to be rare in the Bombay Presidency. It has been 

 recorded from the Konkan by Law and Stocks. It occurs in Bengal, 

 Assam, Western Peninsula and Ceylon. 



28. Gheirosiylis. 



Terrestrial herb, whole plant translucent when dry, lower part 

 of stems succulent. Leaves membranous. Flowers few, small, 

 subcorymbose, sepals connate into a gibbous tube in their lower 

 half, petals narrow, shorter than the sepals. lip inserted at the 

 base of the column, the sac with enclosed colli, limb shortly clawed, 

 broadly dilated, entire, toothed or crenate ; cohtmn short, with two 

 long fleshy appendages in front, rostellum 2-cleft, stigmas 2, lateral, 

 anther erect, its cells short, pollinia, 2, bipartite, caudicle short, glandj 

 oblong. 



1. Cheirostylis flabellata, Wight.; Fl. Br. Ind., VI, p. 105 

 T. Cooke, Fl. of Bombay, II, p. 709 ; Balz. and Gibs., p. "271. 



Plant 4 to 10 inches high, stem sometimes moniliform below. Leaves 

 very thin, about 1 inch long, ovate acute, 3-nerved and reticulately 

 veined, base rounded or subcordate, sheaths loose, of a glossy 

 texture, petioles about ^ inch long. Scape 6 to 8 inches long, 

 glandular pubescent, bracts \ to -k inch long. Flowers 2 to 10, 



