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flowered ; sepals and petals oblong-acute ; lip 3-lobed ; lateral 

 segments ovate-obtuse, about equal to the ovate-obtuse middle one ; 

 crested veins 3 ; spur short, conic-obtuse. Pasture lands in the 

 Deccan, in the cold season. 



3. E OcHREATA, Lind. loc. cit. — Leaves oblong-acute ; scape 

 with 3 loose sheaths ; bracts linear acuminate, longer than the 

 ovary ; raceme cyhndric ; sepals oval-acute, concave ; petals broader 

 and flat ; lip oblong, serrated, with all the veins fringed ; spur 

 small, hemispherical. A small-flowered species, with a rather 

 dense, cylindrical raceme, 4 to 5 inches long ; all the parts of the 

 flower membranous. The Concan. 



4. E Herbacea, Lind. in Wall. Cat. — A species something 

 like Bicolor, but the spike is shorter and thicker ; the spur is also 

 shorter, and the flowers double the size ; sepals long, green, and 

 narrow ; petals broader and shorter ; lip with fringed veins. The 

 Concans ; grows also on the Himalayas. 



12. iERIDES, Lour. 



1. A Crispum, Lind. Gen. and Sp. Orch. p 239. — Leaves 

 strap-shaped, obliquely emarginate at the apex ; panicle large, lateral 

 branches few-flowered, terminal one long, drooping, many-flowered ; 

 sepals broad, ovate-elliptic, obtuse ; petals rhombeo-spathulate ; hp 

 3-lobed ; lateral ones small, suborbicular ; middle one subtriangular, 

 crenate, truncate at the apex; spur tapering, shorter than the lip, 

 hooked outwards ; fruit short, obconical ; flowers rose-coloured ; lip 

 deeper coloured. Southern Concan and Warree Country. Syn. 

 A brookei, Bot. Reg. 1841 ; A crisfrnm, Bot. Reg. 1842, t. bb ; 

 Saccolabium speciosum, Wight Ic. 1674-75. 



2. A LiNDLEYANA, Wight Ic. 1677. — Leaves fleshy, coriaceous, 

 linear-oblong, oblique, deeply emarginate at the apex ; racemes 

 erect, few-flowered ; sepals and petals obovate, suborbicular ; an- 

 terior sepals somewhat larger, and, like the lip, thick and coria- 

 ceous; lip 3-lobed, attached to the point of the prolonged base of 

 the column ; lateral lobes small, ovate, ventricose above, crisp on the 

 margins, with a large, fleshy lobe at the base, closing the spur ; spur 

 short, rigid, inflexed under the laminae ; capsules large, obovate, 

 long-pediceiled ; flowers pinkish-lilac; lip deeper coloured, sweetly 

 fragrant. Near Vingorla, and in the Warree Country. 



3. A WiGHTiANUM, Lind. Gen. and Sp. 238. — Leaves strap- 

 shaped, oblique at the base, 2-lobed at the apex, with a tooth 

 between; racemes straight, simple, many-flowered, longer than the 

 leaves; sepals and petals oval; anterior ones larger; lip funnel- 

 shaped ; lateral lobes adnate to the foot of the column ; the middle 

 one subcuneate, roundish, 3-lobed at the apex ; disk crested with 

 several crisp lines ; spur short, conical ; middle lobe of the lip deep 



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