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§ 3 Inflorescence of % 2^ but pedicels very rarely fascicled or 
whorled and flowers smalf sometimes minute. Capsules 
erects except in I. laxiflora.— There are many species 
of this section in the Eastern Himalaya and Burma, but 
none in Malabar, Ceylon or the Malay Peninsula. 
Leaves crenate or crenate-serrate, or serrulate m 1, brachy-- 
centra v — 
Dorsal auricle of wings filiform 
descending into the spur, flowers 
white or pink . . , . 14. /. tingens Edgew. 
Dorsal auricle of wings very short 01 0 ;“-» 
Flowers yellow, bracts very slen- 
der, sepals iiniglandular on one 
margin, spur long short or 0 , 15, /. racemosa DC, 
Flowers white and rose, bracts 
ovate, spur long . « , i6. I. laxifloraEdgt^v, 
Flower very minute white, spur 0 
or very short , . . , 17. /. br achy centra 
K. & K. 
Leaves serrate or serrulate : see also /. ^brachycentra j— 
Flow'ers pink or white, bracts 
ovate . , . . . 18. /. parviflora DC. 
§ 4 Inflorescence a very long^peduncled axillary spreading few' 
flowered raceme ; pedicels sub-equidistant ^ bracte ate at 
the base^ bracts and sepals various : flowers large. — There 
are many species of this section in the East Himalaya 
and Burma, but none in Malabar, Ceylon or the Malay 
Peninsula. 
Lip saccate with a stout short incurved 
spur, bracts large . . . 19. /. Inayatii Hk. f, 
II. § 5. Inflorescence lateral, of solitary axillary short simple 
or forked I -^-flowered peduncles; branches (^pedicels) 
bracteate above the middle^ rarely at the fork, or ehrac- 
teate sometimes beneath the flower; flowers- small or 
medium-sized ; capsules usually long slender terete 
decurved or pendulous. the irregular forking or 
branching of the peduncle and disposition of the bracts, 
this section differs from all others. When the peduncle 
is i-flowered, a minute bract often occurs at the middle. 
There are species of this section in the. Eastern Himalaya 
and Burma, but none in Malabar, Ceylon or the Malay 
Peninsula. 
