270 



19. PERISTYLUS, Blunie. 



1. P GooDYEROiDES, Lind. — Stem 12 to 18 inches high, erect, 

 round, leafy, the upper ones gradually increasing in size; flowers 

 small, white, in a densely-crowded spike, furnished with lanceolate 

 bracts. South Concan ; flowers in the rains. Syn. Habenaria goody- 

 eroides, Spr. syst. iii, p 690 ; Bot. Mag. 3397. 



2. P Lawii, R. Wight Ic. 1695. — Stem loosely vaginate at the 

 base, 3 to 4-leaved in the middle, above naked; leaves oblong- 

 lanceolate acute ; scape longer than the leaves, slender ; sepals 

 linear-lanceolate, obtuse, narrower than the petals; lip equalling the 

 sepals, 3-lobed at the apex ; lobes all equal; spur short, bladdery. 

 Belgaum. 



3. P Elatus, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. iii, p 344. — 1| foot 

 high, as thick as a swan's quill ; stem vaginate at the base, leafy 

 in the middle ; leaves few, spreading, elliptic, lower ones obtuse, 

 amplexicaul, upper longer acute, with a callous mucro, all shorter 

 than the scape, abruptly going off' into acuminate scales ; upper sepal 

 rounded ; lateral oblong, cucullate at the apex, with a mucro on the 

 back ; petals longer, lip almost entire, rounded, like the petals ; spur 

 spheroidal, scrotiform ; bracts lanceolate-acuminate, longer than the 

 flower; spike cylindric, many-flowered; flowers small, crowded; 

 leaves 6 to 7 inches long, 2^ to 3 broad. Malwan; flowers in 

 July, 



20. POGONIA, Juss. 



1. P Cakinata, Lind. — Root a subglobular white bulb ; leaf 

 appearing after the flowers, radical, solitary, cordate, smooth, 

 7-nerved ; scape with 1 to 2 sheaths, bearing at the apex a raceme 

 of many flowers ; flowers large, sepals and petals unilateral, linear- 

 lanceolate, pale-green; lip rhomboid subtrilobate, middle lobe 

 crenate, with purple veins and spots on a pale greenish-yellow 

 ground ; capsule oval, 6-winged. Common in the Concan Jungles. 



2. P Flabelliformis, Lind. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 415. — Leaf 

 somewhat like that of the preceding, but with many folds, like that 

 of the Borassus. We have never seen the flowers, which appear 

 in the rains ; found in the densest and shadiest thickets of the 

 Concan, also near Dharwar. 



21. SPIRANTHES, Lind. 



1. S ArsTRALis, Lind. — Radical and cauline leaves linear or 

 linear-lanceolate, obtuse or acute, sometimes ensiform ; flowers spi- 

 ral, glabrous, or pubescent ; bracts ovate, longer than the ovary ; lip 

 oblong, dilated at the apex, crisp, pubescent above ; flowers white. 



