452 



■ Spec. Char. Stem branched, diffuse: branches trichotomoni, 



flabrous, almost 4-sided : leaves sessile, linear-oblolsg, acute, gla- 

 rous on both sides, minutely ciliated on the margin : spikes clus- 

 tered about the root into a ball : bracts acuminated from a broad 

 base, bracteoles and cah-x-segments linear-acute, all without points^ 

 somewhat c.irtiliiuiiious, smooth at the base, silky and villous at 

 the lip : flowers white, spotted with pink and yellow. 



On rocks at Phoonda Ghaut, flowering in November. 



(13) L. ctAVATA. (Dalz.) 



Ideiit. Dali!. I. c. p. 340.— Bomb. flor. p. 191. 



Spec. Char. Stems several, from a woody root, simple, ascend- 

 ing, obtusely quadrangular, glabrous, naked at the base : spikes 

 terminal, solitaiy, simple, oblong, quadrangular : leaves small, 

 Sessile, ovate .'icniiiinate, spinous-pointed, glabrous, entire, coria- 

 fceous, rigid : bracts densely imbricated in four rows, of the same 

 shape as the leaves, along with the bracteoles |nd Calyx, silky and 

 tonientose. 



Chorla Ghaut. 



(14) L. RiGiDA. {Dais.) 



Jdent. Dalz. 1. c. p. 341. — Bomb. flor. p. 191. 



Spec. Char. Stem erect, snifruticose, covered with soft spread' 

 ing hairs : leaves linear-lanceolate, folded, gradually attenuated 

 into the base, glandular and pubescent on both sides: spike's ter- 

 minal on the short branchlets, cylindric, compound at the base, 

 glanduliir and pubescent : bracts linear-subulate, calyx 4-divided : 

 dorsal segments oblong-acute, 3-nerved, anterior divided to the 

 middle, lateral subulute, all spinous-pointed. 



Bam Ghaut. 



(15) L. GOENsis. (Dah.) 



Idem. Dalz. I. c. p. 340. — Bomb. flor. p. 191. 



Spec. Char. Stem herbaceous, dichotomous, diffuse: leaves 

 ))roadly ovate-acute, softly pubescent, repand-dentate : spikes ter- 

 minal or bitrifid, peduncles lax, few-flowered, bracts broadly ovate, 

 rather obtuse : bracteoles linear, and with the calycine segments 

 densely glandular, pubescent. 



The Watree country. 



