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Sf EC. Char. Scape often erect, 2 ot mafejrifioWeredf fflrnlslied 

 wifh ovate, more «r less acute scales and bracts : roots fibroHS'i 

 'sparingly utricaliferous : leaves linear-spathttlate, none or almost 

 Twne -wmle flowering : |iediGeIs short, marginate, fructiferouSj nod* 

 *ding, shorter than the 'bract i upper lobe of the calyx ovate, ^ghtly 

 "Obtuse, a Kttte shorter than thp ^{aadrirte-o.blong, ovate or sabotate, 

 Wijtlre upper lip of the Corolla j lower lobe ovate, obtuse or 2- tooth" 

 *d, shorter than the spur : lower Kp of the corolla entire or emar- 

 gffieite; shorter or nearly equalling the slightly falesetely cwveii 

 €i^€ndent spor : capsttle globose or ovatS, covered by the inereasing 

 lobes of the calyx: seeds usiially ovate, (iMiqitely striated : flower* 

 yellow. 



Malabar and Myspte. Cliiltagong. Silhet. 



(11) U. Wallichiana. {R. W.) 



jdeni. t)liver in Jdma. JPioc. Linn. Soe. HI. p. 182^ 



Engrail. Wight's Icon. t. 1572. f. 1. 



Spec CiIar. Boots utripuliferoiis : leaves almost none whiltf 

 flowering, Ijneat or linear-spalhulate : scape straight ox twinfaigy 

 firm or slender, 1-2 or manyflowered, furnishei] witli 1—4 minute, 

 ovate of ovate-lanceola1;e, acute scales : pedicels erect or ascendihg} 

 fructiferous oiKS more or less margiiiate towards the apex with the 

 decurre^t flalyK : flori£eiioite ones f quailing or exceeding the spur: 

 upp6r lobe of the calyx broader, very acute or cuspidate, lower one 

 acute or minutely 2-toothed, often much shorter than the spur : 

 upper lip of the corolla' ^tirer caipsulfe ovate or elliptic: stigma 

 sessilg : seeds, minijtej reticul^tely striated : floweis golden-cplonred^ 



Var. 1. Scape slender or capillacenug, often tiring ; flowem 



?empte : pedwels ^stending or patent.— U. sqafldens, SeM. in Linn. 

 X%-p.S09. 



. Far. 2. Scape l-S-fitrwered : upper Bp of tJie corolla entire of 

 Snibffinarginate! spur often sligljtly exceeding the calyx. 



(1) COurtallifm Hills. Ehasia mountsdns. (2) Neilfiherrieft. 

 Arcot. rUftdiguJ Rills. 



(12) U. HiRTA. (Klein. J 



ident. Oliver in Joum. Proc. Linn. Soe. III. p. J 83. 

 Syn. V. setacea, Tp'all. Cat, /Va. 6898.{fK)i Michx.) 

 Spec. Char. Scape slender, erect, 1-2 rarely 3-flowered • scale* 

 few and .«ilh the bracts and braetfibles natrow, linear-siibtilite • 

 Mes of the calyx equa^l, ovatf : pedjcels braCt? and fcalvx koselv 

 subpateht, hairy or slightly so : pedicels very short scarcely exKHJe*. 

 mg the bract : upper lip of the corolla phovate, or quadrate-pbhjnff, 

 entire, very obtuse, often eiceeding the calyx : spur conical, ascend- 



