680 CXLVIII. ogcHipEX. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Oberonia. 
No. 1130; Ic. Pl. Asiat. t. 286, f£. 1. Malaxis myriantha & sikkimensis, 
Reichb. f. in Walp. Ann. vi. 212. 
SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt, 4-5000 ft., J. D. H., Clarke. Kuasa Mrs., alt. 3500- 
5000 ft., Griffith, &c.; Naga Hills, Clarke. 
Leaves 4-10 by i-$ in., coriaceous. Scape sometimes adnate to the uppermost 
leaf; spike and raceme longer or shorter than the leaves, straight or decurved, 
rachis slender but stiff; flowers about 1, in., pale yellow-green, lateral lobes of lip 
rounded, or rather truncate and notched or crenate ; terminal lobes variable in length, 
Capsules pedicelled.— Except in the shorter racemes, I find no character for sikkim- 
ensis, and they are as short in some specimens of myriantha. 
18. O. demissa, Lindl. Fol. Orchid. Oberon. 4; leaves short 
thin linear-oblong obtuse, scape short adnate to the uppermost a , 
bracts short ovate acute erose, spike short erect or decurved dense-fl ri 
flowers minute subsessile, petals broadly oblong denticulate, lip very short, 
lateral lobes broad truncate crenate terminal short broad quadrate. Hook-J. 
L Plant. t. 1785 B. Malaxis demissa, Reichb. f. in. Walp. Ann. VL 
11. 
SIKKIM HIMALAYA ; at the foot hills, J. D. H. flowers 
Leaves 2 by } in., obtuse. Scape "} in.; raceme 1} in., pale green; dorsal 
about 3; in., obscurely whorled ; lateral sepals orbicular, much larger than the ona . 
— Specimens very few.—The species had perhaps better be referred to the group v d 
O. orbicularis, ` Lindley describes the midlobe of the lip as ovate, acute, but 
it to be as described above in his and my own specimens. 
19. O. recurva, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1839, Misc. No. 8; Fol 
Orchid. Oberon. 5; leaves small oblong-lanceolate acuminate, scape — 
short, raceme slender dense-fld., flowers very minute not whorled, brac : 
lanceolate, petals obovate oblong and lip erose, lateral lobes rounde ar 
lobe 9.üd. Hook. f. Ic. Plant. t. 1784 A. O. setifera, Lindl. l. c. 
Malaxis setifera & recurva, Reichb. f. in Walp. Ann. vi. 210, 212. 
The Concan, Law, Dalzell, &c. 
Leaves 1-1} in., thin. Scape and raceme 2-3 in., more or less recurv 
curved ; bracts shorter than the pedicels; flowers 44 in., hyaline, sparsely . 
dotted ; lip equalling or longer than the sepals; divisions of midlobe vari 
breadth, sinus acute or obtuse. Capsules on pedicels as long as themselves. that 
failed to find in Lindley's or other specimens tbe setaceous petals described by 
author. 
+t Petals linear. ‘ 
ed or de- 
gland- 
able in 
I have 
a. Lip orbicular or quadrate, entire or obscurely lobed. 
20. O. zeylanica, Hook. f. Ic. Plant. t. 1782 A; leaves linear en 
form obtuse, scape flattened with a small adnate leaf about the P cts 
spike shorter than the leaves decurved, flowers loosely imbricate, wit 
ovate subentire, petals linear entire, lip quadrate quite entire T. . 
obseure lobes at the outer angles. O. Browneana, Thwaites Herb. V^ 
986v). O. longibracteata, Thw. in part (C.P. 543). 
CEYLON; r East, Beckett; Hantani, Thwaites. " 
eaves 4— i-i in, nearly straight. Scape 3—4 in., about ¢} : 
hardly compressed above the adnate leaf, which is very small. Spike 3 er didi 
or deenrved ; flower j; in., pale. , Fruit sessile.—I advance this species ion o 
hesitation, for I suspect that there has been some confusion in the ‘distr! 
Thwaites’ Oberonias, and more specimens are wanted of all. 
t 4 in. diam., stout, 
