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S?Ec. Chae. Eoot tuberous : stems erect, round, 3^ — 5 -feet: 

 leaves bifarious, linear-lanceolate : scapes radical, 6 — 12-iaches 

 long : spikes oblong, strobiliform, closely imbricated with, numerous 

 obovate acuminate villous bracts : flowers large, pale sulphur. 



Concans. Behar. Silhet. Bengal. Flowering in July and 

 August. 



(4) Z. NiMMONii. (Bah.J 



Ident. DaJz. in Hook. Joum. Bot. iv. p. 341. 



Syn. Z.-pandLuiatvim, Moscb.flor. Ind.-J. p. 55. 



Spec Chae. Leaves lanceolate-acuminate, short-petioled, palei- 

 and covered with a fine web below : spike ascending, short-pedun- 

 cled, ovate, scarcely rising above the ground : bracts linear-oblong 

 or lanceolate, inner ones 2-eleft, outer divisions of the corolla 

 yellowish red, lip 3-lo'bed, middle one ovate, rounded. 



Concans, flowering in the rains. 



(5) Z. CEENTTOM. (Bah.) 



Idont. Dalz. 1. c. p. 342. 



Spbc. Chae. Stem somewhat curved :. leaves narrow-elliptic, 

 acuminate, glabrous : spikes ovate-obtuse, very shortly pedunoled, 

 scarcely rising above ground : bracts ovate or oblong, inner ones 

 shortly 3-cleft, middle lobe of the lip ovate, deeply 2-cleft, varie- 

 gated with white and pink, lateral lobes yellow and pink. 



Earn Ghaut, flowering in July. 



(6) Z. maoeostachtum:. (Bak.J 



Ident. Dalz. 1. c. 



Spec. Chae. Stem red, pubescent : leaves lanceolate, acuminate, 

 paler and pubescent beneath : spikes 1 — 2 from the root, cylindric- 

 elongated, long-pedunoled : bracts obovate-acute : flowers white, lip 

 3-lobed : middle one rounded, emargiaate, marked with diverging 

 purple lines : capsule obovate, pubescent, red. 



Earn Ghaut, flowering in July. 



(7) Z. EOSETJM. fEoscoe.J 

 Ident. Eoscoe in Trans. Linn. Soc. viii. 348.—- Eoxb. 1. c. p. 50. 

 ■ Mngrm. Eoxb. Cor. II. 126. , 



Spec. Chae. Stems several, 2 — 3-feet: leaves short-petioled, 

 lanceolate, acute : spikes, remote from the stems, imbrica,ted with 



