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On Jatnbbol trees at the Ram Ghaut; flowers in August. Lind- 

 ley's specimens were from Ceylon. 



3. D Ramosissimum, Wight Ic. 1648. — Much-branched; lower 

 part of the stem naked, smooth, dark, shining, brownish-coloured ; 

 branchlets leafy ; leaves narrow-linear, lanceolate-acute ; racemes 

 terminal, short, few-flowered ; flowers small ; sepals ovate-lanceolate 

 acute, broader than the lanceolate-acute, entire petals ; lip oblong 

 obtuse, contracted near the apex, forming a suborbicular, terminal 

 lobe ; flowers whitish-yellow. Mahableshwur and other Ghauts. 



4. D MicROBOLBON, A. Richard, Ann. Soc. Nat. xv, t. 8. — 

 Pseudo-bulbs ovate, covered with the sheaths of fallen leaves ; 

 leaves often wanting, when present, one or two from the apex of 

 the bulb linear-lanceolate, about the length of the scape; raceme 

 erect, 4 to 8-flowered ; bracts small, linear subulate ; lateral sepals 

 acute subfalcate, forming, with the process of the column, an acute 

 spur ; posterior divaricato-lanceolate ; petals lanceolate, narrower 

 than the posterior sepal ; lip large, 3-lobed ; middle lol)e crenulate, 

 suborbicular ; lateral ones entire, or slightly crenate ; flowers greenish- 

 yellow, tipped with pink, with darker crimson lines. On trees in 

 the Concan ; flowers in July and August. D crispum, Dalz. in 

 Hook. Jour. Bot. iv, p 1 11 ; D humile, Wight 1643. 



5. D CHiiOEOPS, Lind. in Bot. Reg. 1844, Misc. 54. — Stems 

 terete, aphyllous when bearing flowers ; racemes lateral and terminal ; 

 sepals and petals ovate-lanceolate ; middle lobe of the lip round, 

 fleshy, inciso-crenate, greenish-yellow, streaked with violet. Com- 

 mon in both Concans ; flowering in the cold season. Syn. D 

 heymanum, Wight Ic. 909 (?). 



6. D Barbatulum, Lind. Gen. and Sp. Orch., No. 44. — Stems 

 when flower-bearing round, leafless, enveloped in the withered 

 sheaths of the leaves ; racemes lateral and terminal, many-flowered ; 

 sepals ovate-acuminate ; petals obovate-acute, larger than the upper 

 sepal ; middle lobe of lip flat, obovate, obtuse entire, bearded at 

 the base with yellow hairs ; flowers cream or nankin-coloured. 

 Common in the Concans, flowering in the cold weather. Wight 

 Ic. 910. Flowers much larger than in the preceding. 



4. CIRRHOPETALUM, Lind. 



1. C Fimbriatum, Hook. Bot. Mag.; Lind. Bot. Reg. 1839, 

 p 72. — Leafless ; pseudo-bulbs cespitose, irregularly angular, 

 depressed ; scapes slender, erect, furnished with remote, adpressed 

 scales; umbels many-flowered, orbicular; lateral sepals long, linear, 

 cohering to near the point; posterior ovate-acuminate, and with 

 the conformable but smaller petals fimbriate on the margin ; lip 

 ovate, obtuse fleshy, shorter than the petals; lateral sepals often 



