460 XXXI]. GEBANiACE^. (§ Balsamineffi, Hook, f.) [ImpaMens. 



A VI. — Epiphytic^. 



58. X. Jerdonise, Wight Ic. t. 1602 ; epiphytic, glabrous, stem tumid 

 short stout prostrate, leaves few petioled elliptic acute serrate, peduncles 

 short, pedicels 1-3 very long, bracts setaceous, sepals long lanceolate, 

 standard small hooded, wings small 2-lobed, spur very large saccate ventri- 

 cose wrinkled, spur short horn-like or 0. Moot Bot. Mag. t. 4739 j H.f. 

 & T. in Journ. Linn. Hoc. iv. 141. 



Mountains of Mat^abak, on trees at Sisparah, the Brahmagherrie and Palghat Mils, 

 alt. 3-5000 ft., m^'M&o. 



Stem 3-6 in., green or pnrple-brown, often as thick as the finger; rooting. Leaves 

 2-3 in., deep green, with glandular cilia at the base and on the top of the stout petiole, 

 nerves few. Peduncles 1-3 in , green, stout ; pedicels sometimes 4 in., red. Flowers 

 1^-2 in. measured along the lip; sepals acuminate, green; standard yelltiw, orbicular, 

 apiculate, narrowly winged at the back ; wings yellow, almost included in the lip, lobes 

 rounded overlapping ; lip blight red, laterally compressed.— In flower closely allied to 

 I. Widkeri. I have seen no specimen of Beddome's /. parasitica ; his character of 

 it accords with that of Z Jerdonice in all but the green colour of the standard and 

 sepals, and the moniliform stem. I shall therefore provisionally add it to this as a 

 variety. 



Var. ; stem moniliform, standard vrith a foliaceous crest and wings green. — I. para- 

 sitica, Bedd. in Madr. Jowr. iv. t. 7, f. 2 ; Ic. PI. Ind. Or. 28, t. 140.— Anamallay 

 hills, alt. 6-7000 ft., Beddome. 



59. Z. auriculata, Wight in Madr. Journ. v. 8, t. 3 ; epiphytic, gla- 

 brous, stem short prostrate internodes very tumid, leaves petioled elliptic 

 acute, peduncle short, pedicels 1-3 erect very long, bracts ovate, sepals very 

 large obliquely oblong pendulous red, standard small hooded, wings very 

 small 2-lobed, lip very large saccate wrinkled, spur short thick. 



Mountains of Malabar and Tkavanooh, alt. 5000 ft., on branches of trees, Wight, &o. 



A smaller plant than I, Jerdonice, with the internodes much swollen, sometimes as 

 large as nuts, the stem appearing annulate in dried specimens. Leaves 1-2 in., 

 obscurely crenulate, with but few glandular setse at the base. Pedicels l-lj in. Flmoers 

 1 in. measiured along the lip ; sepals very remarkable, pendulous, acute, much exceeding 

 the wings, and sometimes as long as the lip, scarlet; standard dark gieen ; wings dark 

 purple, the segments cochleate and overlapping ; lip scarlet, laterally compressed ; 

 spur very variable. Capsule unknown. — The sepals of this species are wholly different 

 from any other in the genus, and bang down like a spaniel's ears. 



60._ X. viridiflora, Wight in Madr. Journ. v. 9 ; erect, glabrous, epi- 

 phytic, stem short extremely thick, branches few short nodose, leaves 

 petioled elliptic acute crenate-serrate, peduncles short, pedicels 1-2 slender, 

 sepals linear, standard orbicular 2-lobed back strongly keeled, lip saccate 

 narrowed into a stout involute spur. Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. 29, t. 141. 



Mountains of Malabak; forming masses on the trunks of trees at the Sivagherry 

 ghat, alt. 5000 ft., Wight. 



Stem often 1 in. diam., fleshy. Leaves li-2 in., sometimes obovate or lanceolate, 

 ■with very few glandular cilia at the base, rather fleshy, orenatures large ; petiole stout. 

 Peduncle \-^ in., usually 2-flowered; bracts subulate, i'lowers 1 in. measured along 

 the lip, wholly green ; sepals reflexed or deflexed, acuminate ; standard small, deeply 

 hooded ; wings fleshy, 2-lobed, lateral lobes hid under the standard, terminal oblong 

 rounded ; lip wrinkled, laterally compressed. Capsule glabrous. 



