Oberonia.] CXLVIII. ORCHIDEEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) 677 
f Petals broad elliptic oblong or ovate. 
u. Lip quadrate or orbicular entire, or if lobed with the midlobe very 
small and short. 
5. O. maxima, Parish mss.; leaves very long and broad, scape very 
stout, flowers sessile most densely imbricate round a thick straight rachis, 
bracts broad obtuse erose sheathing the subsessile ovary, petals short broad 
quite entire, lip orbicular crenulate, disk thickened. 
TENASSERIM ; at Moulmein, Parish. 
This and O. ensiformis are the largest-leaved species, and this has the stoutest 
scapes, 3-4 by }-} in., and thickest spikes, which are 4-6 in. long. The flowers are 
ee to the spike with very short ovaries. Leaves 12 by 1j in., nearly 
8 raight, 
6. O. orbicularis, Hook. f.; leaves narrowly ensiform acute, scape 
subcompressed, flowers densely imbricate on a stout rachis, bract orbicular 
erose sheathing the shortly pedicelled ovary, petals broad quite entire, lip 
orbicular crenulate notched. 
SIKKIM HIMALAYA ; at Dikkeeling, alt. 3000 ft., Clarke. . . . 
Leaves 4-6 by 34-4 ip., nearly straight. Scape 2-3 in. ; spike 3-5 in., straight 
or slightly curved; flowers about gy in. 
7. O. brachystachys, Lindl. Sert. Orchid. (under t. 8); Fol. Orchid. 
Oberon. 4; leaves short oblong obtuse thin, scape very short, raceme 
about equalling the leaves, bracts lanceolate, flowers whorled shortly pedi- 
celled, petals broad erose, lip very short crenulate, lateral lobes large 
rounded terminal short truncate. Malaxis brachystachys, feichb. f. in 
Walp. Ann. vi. 911. 
TENASSERIM ; at Mergui, Griffith. . , los 
eaves 1-2 by i-i in. Raceme flexuous or deeurved, rachis slender; lower 
bracts longer than the flowers, which are about 4; in, Aruit pedicelled. 
8. O. truncata, Lindl. Fol. Orchid. Oberon. 3; leaves linear ensi- 
form subacute, scape adnate to a leaf greatly flattened above it, spike 
stout short lax-fld., lowers subwhorled sessile, bracts acuminate serrulate, 
Petals oblong quite entire, lip much broader than long subreniform with 
rounded oblong lateral lobes and an obscure midlobe. Malaxis truncata, 
Teich, f. in Walp. Ann. vi. 210. 
CEYLON ; at Hant : . 
i ani, Champion. 
Leaves 3-4 by 3-4 in., straight. Seape above the adnate leaf very short and 
broad ; spike 21 in., stout ; flowers much smaller than the rachis is broad, very. pale, 
*Sout 3. in. ; lip quite unlike that of any other species, succulent, more than twice » 
road as long, margins quite entire, midlobe a low broad rounded projection on le 
margin as it were of the edge furthest from the column.— Described from a singie 
Specimen, 
B. Lip oblong or obcordate, longer than the sepals, side lobes undeveloped 
or minute, midlobe 2-fid. 
9. o. verticillata, Wight Ic. t. 1626; leaves small narrowly ensiform 
acute or acuminate, scape chert terete, racemes very long, flowers whorled 
Pedicelled, bracts lanceolate, petals oblong, lip twice as long as the sepa’ 
