398 



flowers : lateral segments of the lip bristly, middle one linear, 

 shorter : claw thickened at the margin, undulate : spur pendulous, 

 twice longer than the lip. 



Silhet. 



(2) C. secuitdttm:. fZindl.j 

 Ident. Lindl. 1. c. p. 303. 



Spec. Chae. Stem leafy: leaves oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 flat : spike dense, secund : bracts ovate-lanceolate, bristly acuminate, 

 leafy, longer than the flowers : lateral segments of the Kp filiform, 

 middle one linear, 3 times shorter : claw Unear, eroded at the 

 margin : spur scrotiform, apioulated. 



Mysore hills. 



(4) C. LUTBinu:. (Dak.) 



Ident. Dalzell in Hook. Journ. Bot. II. p. 263. 



Syn. Habenari'a peristyloides, WiffM Icon. t. 1702. 



Spec. Chae. Leaves few, linear, acuminate, congested near the 

 base : scape clothed with a few ovate-acuminate scales : spike very 

 slender, many-flowered :' bracts acuminate, half the length of the 

 ovary : lip caUous at the base : lateral segments filiform, twice the 

 length of the middle tongue-shaped segment : spur filiform, 

 cylindric, as long as the ovary : flowers yellow. 



!Near Malwan, flowering in August. 



GENUS L. ATE. 



Oynandria ]fIoiiandpia. Sex: Syst: 



Gbn. Ghab. Perianth of Platanthera : anther with diverging 

 bases, attenuated, adnate to the stig^atic channels : glands naked : 

 processes fleshy, free, with a homy spathulate deflexed channelled 

 lamina interposed: sterile anthers narrowed from a broad base, 

 almost the length of the fertile one, thickened at the apex. — ^Herbs 

 with a tubercled root : stems leafy : flowers herbaceous, galeate. 



(1) A. viEENS. Clmdl.J 



Ident. Lindl. gen. and sp. p. 326. 



Engram. "Wight's Icon. t. 928. 



Spec. Chak. Leaves ovate, acuminate, occupying the whole 

 stem, suddenly changed into bracts: raceme secund, lax, 4 — 6- 



