44 PROFESSOR LINDLEY'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO 
The original S. nepalense is distinctly known by its somewhat 
lax inflorescence, large coloured bracts, and spurs as long as the 
ovary, or longer. The two others have very short spurs. Of 
these, S. ciliatum has a thin inflorescence like that of S. nepalense 
itself; S. Wightianum has a very dense inflorescence; both are 
much dwarfer than S. nepalense. The specimens under my exami- 
nation may be arranged thus :— 
251. S. Nepalense. D. Don, Prodr. Fl. Nep. 26; Wight, Ic. 929. (S. 
Perrottetianum, Ach. Rich. Ann. Sc. ser. 2. xv. 76; Wight, Ic. 1716. 
—S. albiflorum, A. Rich. 1. с.; Wight, Ic. 1717. S. pallidum, А. 
Rich. 1. с.). 
Sikkim, 7000-12,000 feet, stout, Шке Gymnadenia, Ј. D. Н. (259); 
Ceylon, Macrae (9); Nilgherries, Wight, Perrottet (193, hb. Mus. 
Par.) ; Mysore, Stocks (53); Khasija, Griffith, Lobb, 4000-6000 feet, 
J. D. H. & T. T. (259); N. W. Himalayas, T. T. 
S. Perrottetianum is merely a gigantic state of the species, while 
S. pallidum is its starved form ; not, however, the most so, for the 
old specimens sent from Nepal by Wallich among his earliest 
collections are still more attenuated. 
252. S. Wightianum, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. p. 3405 Wight, Ic. 1718. 
Nilgherries, Perrottet (191 & 850 in hb. Mus. Par.), Wight; Khasija, 
Lobb. 
A much dwarfer plant than the preceding, with two broad radical 
leaves suddenly changing to about two great inflated herbaceous 
sheaths, and an extremely dense blunt spike. Flowers “rubri 
aut coccinei” according to Perrottet, pink according to Wight, 
and smaller than in S. nepalense. 
253. S. ciliatum, Lindl. 1. c. 
Sikkim, 7000-12,000 feet, J. D. H. (259); Bootan, grassy sward above 
Tongsa, 10,000 feet, Griffith. 
The very short spurs of this are so different from the long 
attenuated ones of S. nepalense, that I think it must be distinct. 
Moreover it is a smaller plant with 2-8 spreading herbaceous 
distant sheaths, but little inflated. In the original specimen the 
` bracts are large and herbaceous, in those from Bootan much 
smaller and deflexed, the plant varying like S. nepalense in that 
respect. 
: | Dretomenis, D. Don. 
254. D. pulchella, Id. 
Khasija, Griffith, 2000-4000 feet, J. D. Н. $ Т. T. (256). 
Flowers pale straw-colour or nearly white, variable. in size. 
