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flowered, bracts leafy, longer than the ovary : flowers green, galeate : 

 sepals ovate, acuminate, lateral ones reflexed, upper one forming a 

 helmet with the petals : petals pubescent, twice broader than the 

 sepal, 2-cleft, segments acuminate, anterior one shorter : lip pen- 

 dulous, pubescent, 3-cleft, longer than the sepals, lobes linear- 

 acuminate, equal : spur filiform, length of the ovary, obtuse. 



Dindigul mountains. 



GEJSTJS LI. SATTEIUM. 

 Crynandvia mConandvia. Sex: Syst: 



Qtss. Chab. Perianth ringent, lower Hji:, made from the sepals 

 and petals, upper from a galeate 2-spurred or 2-saccate labeUum : 

 column sessile or elongated: anther resupinate, cells parallel or 

 diverging : glands of the poUen masses naked, separate : stigma 

 2-Hpped : upper lip large, exceeding the lower. — Herbs with the 

 habit of Orchis : roots testiculate. 



(1) S. ITepaieitse. (Bon.) 



Ident. Lindl. gen. and sp. p. 340. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 929. 



Spec. Chak. Radical leaves oblong-lanceolate, acute, sheaths 

 inflated, acuminated, distant : spike lax, many-flowered : bracts 

 ovate-acuminate, reflexed, length of the flowers : lateral sepals 

 oblong, middle one and "the petals glabrous : , lip helmet shaped, 

 crested above : spurs filiform, longer than the ovaries : flowers rose- 

 coloured. 



Neilgherries and Pulney mountains, in pastures. 



(2) 8. PBEOiTETiAiniir. fA. Rich.) 



Ident. A. Eichard in Wight's Icon. t. 1716.^ 



Spec. Chae. Cauline leaves sessile, broad, ovate, acute, plaited, 

 loosely sheathing at the base, diminishing above : flowers loosely 

 spiked: bracts longer than the flowers, ovate-oblong, acute, erect 

 or often reflexed : lateral sepals ovate-lanceolate, acute, middle one 

 linear-oblong : petals linear, obtuse : spur the length of the ovary, 

 stalk of the stigma (gynostem) round, longish : flowers and bracts 

 deep pink. 



KTeilgherries, in low moist pastures. 



