434 



(1) G. MARANTINOrDES. (R. W.J 



Ident. "Wight's Icon. yi. and t. 2001. 



8yn. G. maxantina, Linn. Willd. sp. I. 153. 



Spec. Chae. Eoot tuberous: stem 12 — 18 inches: leaves hi- 

 farious, broad-lanceolate, acute, smooth above, Tillous and whitish 

 beneath, margins ■waved; spike terminal, solitary, strobiliform, 

 oblong : bracts ovate-cordate with a small bulb in the axil : flowers 

 slender, bright yellow, fragrant, tube long and slender. 



"Warree country. AnnamuUay forests. Flowering in August 

 and September. 



(2) G. OPHIOGLOSSA. fE. W.J 



Ident. "Wight 1. c. t. 2002. 



Spec. Chab. Leaves short-petioled, acuminate, glabrous: panicle 

 terminal: HpKnearpoiuted, deeply cleft: inner lobes (petals) Hnear- 

 lanceolate : capsule globose, smooth. 



Malabar. AnnamuUay hills. 



(3) G. SAiTATOEiA. fRoscoe.J 



Ident. Roscoe Scit. 



Syn. G. radicalis, Eoxb. G. subulata, Roxh.flor. Ind. I. p. 81. 

 G. purpurea, Andr. Bot. Rep. Mantisia saltatoria, Sims. 



Engrae. Eoxb. Cor. Ill t. 230. Andr. Bot. Eep. x. t. 615. 

 Bot. Mag. 32 t. 1320. 



Spec Chae. Boots fusiform : stems bending to one side, 1 — 2- 

 feet : leaves bifarious, sessile on their sheaths, lanceolate, point 

 filiform, withering, villous on both sides : sheaths smooth, keeled : 

 ligula truncated: scapes radical, often several, sheathed: panicle 

 erect, 1-foot including the scape, purple, branches simple, long, 

 diverging, bearing in succession numerous alternate sessile, small 

 purple and yellow flowers : bracts smooth, purple, of the branches 

 oblong, of the flowers cordate: tube of the coroUa long and slender, 

 lower half horizontal, upper erect, flower dropping at the angle,' the 

 lower half withering, border single, 3-parted, upper division erect, 

 pressing on the back of the filament, oblong, bosit-shaped, lower two 

 divisions obliquely cordate, reflexed : lip ouneate, deeply 2-parted, 

 deep orange yellow: filament very long, afterwards revolute, 

 grooved on the inside with two very long slender flat subulate re- 

 'curved diverging wings near the base : anther double with remform 



