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petals, about equal, obovate, lip painted with white and rose-colour, 

 and furnished with 2 horns on the sides which lean backwards : 

 spur shorter than, the flawer, saccate, obtuse, pointing forwards, 

 hairy within, and lying under a 3-lobed lamina, lip in front calceifoirm, 

 with the front leather turned backwards, white at the base ; sepals 

 and petels yellow, with a purple spot in the centre. 



Tuikut ghaut, flowering in May. 



GENUS LVI. POLTSTACHYA. 

 Gynandria. IHoiiandpia. Sei: Sysu 



Derve. From PoVys many, and Stachys a spike. 



Gen. Cttab. Sepals erect, acute, lateral ones larger, connate 

 with the lengthened base of the column : petals smaller : lip sessile, 

 articulated with the base of the column, 3-lobed: column half- 

 terete, short: anther 2-eelled: pollen-masses 4, collateral, equal, 

 coherinig by pairs. — Caulescent epiphytes, sometimes pseudo-bulbous: 

 leaves slighfly nerved: flowers panicled, small, flxjwer-buds trigonai- 



(1) P. LUTEotA. fHooher.J 



Ident. Hooker Exot. flor. t. 103. — Lindl. gen. and sp. p! 73. 



Syn. Epidendrum minutum, Aubh—Cxsmokis luteola, 8wart% 

 flor. Ind. Oce. III. liSS. — Dendrobium polystachyon, Willd. et ah 

 auct. P. mauritiana, Spreng. 



Engram. "Wight's Icon. t. 1678. Thouars Orch. Afr. t. 85. 



Spec. Chae. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, many-nerved, shorter 

 than the scape : spike panicled : ovaries glabrous : flowers pale 

 yellow. 



lyamullay hills near Coimbatore, on branohes of trees, flowering 

 in August and September. 



(2) P. PFEPtJHEA. (R. W.) 



Ideni. Wight 1. c. t. 1679. 



Spec. Chab. Leaves coriaceous, linear-oblong, obtuse, emarginate, 

 .shorter than the scape : flowers and ovaries glabrous : lip pubescent: ' 

 within : gland of the pollen scutelliform, orbicular, caudiele short"; 

 capsules ovoid : flowers purplish or dark lilac, Hp much paler. 



lyamuUay hills, 3000 feet, on branches of trees, flowering in 

 June, 



