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GENUS LXII. DISPEEIS. 



Crynandrla monandria. Sex: S^st: 



Gest. Chab. Perianth ringent : upper sepal coheriiig •with, the 

 petals into a helmet, lateral ones saccate, patent,, free,, or connate : 

 lip clawed, adnata to the face of the column, ascending between the 

 lobes of the anther, appendage usually villous at the apex, inflexed 

 above the column : anther resupinate, or supine, even erect : glands 

 naked : stigma narrow, transverse, divaricated, two arms cartila- 

 ginous, often twisted.^SmaU herbs, usually villous : stems 1 -few- 

 flowered, 1 — 2-leaved : roots testiculate and tuberous. 



(1) D. NEILeHEKEENSIS. ^B. W.J 



Ident. Wight's Icon. v. t. 1719. 



Spec. Chae. Stem erect, 3 — 4-flowered: leaves cordate, acute, 

 crenate, stem-clasping : posterior sepals and petals cohering^ re- 

 flexed on the margins, lateral sepals spathulate, spreading, undulate 

 on the margin, sub-cuspidate, pubescent at the • base : lip fleshy, 

 ascending, concealing the column, dilated, deeply 2-lobed above, 

 ending below in an orbicular cuspidate appendage : flowers pale 

 reddidi-white, spotted with crimson points. 



NeUgherries, in woods on large mossy stones, flowering in July 

 and August. 



(2) D. TEIPETAIOIDEA. (lAndil.) 



Ident. Lindl. gen. and sp. p. 371. 



Bngram. Wight 1. c. t. 930. 



Spec. Chae. Stem erect, 2 — 4-flowered : leaves cordate-oblong, 

 acute : sepals glabrous^ lateral ones pendulous, sessile, connate at 

 the base, pitted behind the base : lip filiform : pubescent, dilated- 

 round at the apex, appendage very small, concave. 



Coonoor. Goodaloor Ghaut. Neilgherries. 



GENUS LXIIl. POGONIA. 

 Cynandna SEonandria. Sex: Sysu 



Beriv. Prom Pogon a beard, alludiirg to the fringed lip of the 

 flowers. 



Gew. Char. Perianth irregular, sub-ringent, si)readingi sepals 

 and petals free, of the same or different shapes : lip free, without 

 callosities, parallel with the elongated column, petaloid, 3-lobed, 

 disc lamellate^ crested or villous : column elongated, clavate, 

 marginate, or half-terete, apex somewhat aurieled : anther stalked, 

 2-ceUed : pollen masses 2, furrowed.-^Terrestried herb's : tubercles 

 spherical, terminating a descending stem. 



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