416 



upper sepal broad-lanceolate, rather acute : lateral sepals falcate, 

 acute, deflexed in flowering : petals and sepals alike : lip 3-cleft : 

 middle segment Unear-aoute, lateral broader and shorter, obliquely 

 truncated and denticulate at the apex : spur pendulous, flliform, as 

 long as the ovary. 



Yingorla and Malwan. 



(27) H. DiPHTiXA. (DahJ 



Ident. Dalz. 1. c. 



Syn. H. Jerdoniana, WigM Icon. t. 1715. 



Spec. Chab. Six inches in height : leaves two, radical, fleshy, 

 orbicular: cordate at the base, obscurely 7-nerved, pressing flat on 

 the ground : cauKne bracts subulate, floral ones half the length of 

 the ovary : upper sepal broad-ovate, 3-nerved, lateral ovate-acute, 

 spreading : petals Imear, falcate, acute : • lip 3-diyided, segments 

 filiform, lateral longer, ascending, reflexed, spirally twisted at the 

 apex : spur pendulous, filiform, shorter than the ovary : flowers 

 few, distant, greenish-wiute. ' 



Southern Concan. 



GENIJS LXI. DIPLOMEEIS. 



Gynandria KKonandria. Sexi Sysu 



Bervp. From Diploa double, and Meros a part, alluding to the 

 lip. 



Gen. Chae. Perianth campantdate, spurred : sepals smaller than 

 the petals and undivided lip : anther horizontal, bases of the cells 

 prolonged, free, distant : glands naked : stigma with the upper lip 

 (beak) very large, membranaceous, dilated, flat : two processes 

 fleshy, collateral, stretched out, sometimes cohering, simulating a 

 lower Up. — Low few-leaved herbs : stems naked or 1-scaled : bracts 

 hooded, somewhat solitary : roots bearing tubercles. 



(1) D. PTTLCHEIXA. (DoU.) 



Ident. Donprodr.lfep. 26. Lindl. gen. and sp. p. 330. - 



Syn. Paragnathis pulchella, Spreng. — SiplbcMlos longifoHum, 

 Undl. in Wall. Cat. 



Migrao. Bot. Eeg. t. 1499. 



Spec. Chab. Stem 2 — 3-leaved, somewhat 2-fl6wered : leaves 

 ensiform, glabrous : bracts ovate, cucuUate, acute : sepals ovate- 

 lanceolate, acute : petals longer, twice as large, ovate-oblong : Up 

 obcordafe, mucronate, flat : spur straight, compressed : anther 

 almost resupinate. 



Ehasia hiUs. 



