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ORDER 137. ORCHIDEAL. Sweet's Hort. Brit. p. 381. 
THE Orcuis Trise. Lind, Nat. Syst. ps 262. 
665. ORCHIS.v. Gynandria Monandria. 
The Greek name ofthe plant. 
1412, O. Commecin@rouia. Rox, Flora, 3. p. 451. 
Root of two or more spindle-shaped, succulent tubers. Scape erect, about 
18 inches high: round, smooth jointed; with cylindric sheathes about half 
the length of the joints. Flowers white, scentless; appear about the middle 
of the rains.—On pasture lands in the Southern Concan. N. 
666. HABENARIA. R. Br. Gynandria Monandria. 
From Habena—a thong or rein; in allusion to the long spurs with 
which the flowers of most of the species are furnished. 
1413. H. PLarypHyLva? Sprengel’s syst. 3. p. 690. Orchis platyphyllos 
Rox. Flora. 3. p. 450. O. platyphyllos. Willd. Spec. 4. p. 11. O. Rox- 
burgii. Persoon’s Synop. 2. p. 503, Rox. Cor. 1. ¢,37. 
Root, pereunial,sizeofa pea, Scape erect, 12 or 18inches high, round, 
smooth, furnished with leafy sheathes. 
At the bottom of the scape there is a single round leaf pressed flat on 
the ground. Flowers white, fragrant; appear at the beginning of the rains. 
S. Concan, N. 
Common about Belgaum at Dharwar, (Mr. Law.) 
1414. H. Gicanrea, Sprengel’s syst. 3. p. 693. H. Susannae. Sprengel’s 
syst. 3. p. 692. Flos Sussannae, Rumph. Amb. 5. ¢. 99. f. 2, Herm, Parad. 
t, 209. Orchis gigantea. Smith’s Exot. Bot. 2. ¢. 100. Bot. Mag. t. 3374. 
Stem 2 or 3 feet high, leafy; lower leaves broad, concave; flowers large, 
greenish white, fragrant;appear towards the close of the rains.—The Con- 
cans. N. At Kandalla, on the open ground about Sir Herbert Compton’s 
Bungalow.—S. M. Country. ( Mr. Law.) 
This is a very superb flower, and has a strange appearance with it’s long 
horn and pectinated lateral lobes of the corolla. 
The plant from which the figure in the Botanical Magazine was drawn, 
was reared in Glasgow Botanic Garden, from roots sent there by Mr. Nimmo, 
who has identified it with H. Susannae. 
1415. H. Marcinara. Sprengel’s syst. 3. p. 691. 
The 3 lacineae of the labellum yellow, the middle one shorter than the 
others.—Fornix with a yellow margin.—Appears in the rains.—S. Concan. 
N. 
Mr. Law says, an Orchideous plant, with greenish yellow ‘flowers, suc- 
ceeds H. platyphylla.; in the S. M. Country—Probably this is the one. 
1416. H. GoopyeroripEs. Sprengel’s syst. 3, p.690. Bot. Mag. t. 3397, 
Don’s Prod. Flora. Nepaul. p. 28. 
Stem 12or 18inches high, erect, round leafy; the upper ones gradually 
increasing in size. Flowers small white ina densely crowded spike; fur- 
nished with lanceolate hbractes.—S, Concan. N.—Appears during the rains. 
The plant from which the figure in the Botanical Magazine is drawn, 
was sent to Glasgow by Mr. Nimmo. 
1417. H. Verecunpa. N. 
3418. H. Meripiana. N. 
Two new species discovered by Mr. Nimmo in S, Concan, 
