00 —E we 
Bpathoglottis.] ^ cxrvur. omomipEm. (J. D. Hooker)  . 815 
Mag. t. 7060. Pachystoma Josephi, Reichb. f. in Walp. Ann. vi. 464, 
Cymbidium ixioides, Don Prodr. 36. 
NEPAL, Wallich, Scully. SIKKIM, alt. 8-1000 ft., J. D. H., Elwes, 
Possibly only a small alpine form of S. pubescens, which latter has not been 
found in the Himalaya. The accessory teeth or auricles at the base of the midlobe 
of the lip vary greatly in size, and are sometimes very obscure; the disk between 
the side lobes is pubescent ; there are two short raised ridges on the disk at the base 
of the midlobe. 
***® Petals narrower than the sepals, 3-nerved. 
8. S. Handingiana, Par. § Reichb. f. in Ot. Hamburg. i. 45; scape 
10 in. slender longer than the elliptic-lanceolate leaf, raceme many-fld. and 
nceolate bracts and ovary pubescent, sepals oblong-lanceolate 5-nerved, 
petals linear acuminate 3-nerved, lip very slender, side lobes a mere 
dilatation of the axis bearing two large erect faleate cuneate oblong calli, 
midlobe very long filiform recurved. 
Nortu Burma ; Bhamo, Herb. Parish, . . 4 in.: 
Pseudobulb small. Leaf solitary?, 5 by 1 in., acuminate. Raceme PL 
tacts iin, slender; pedicel with ovary l in., capillary ; flowers 1 in. iam., 
membranous ; sepals and petals rose-purple, lip longer than the sepals, white wi ! 
Yellow purple-spotted calli; column as long as the sepals, narrowly winged above ; 
us er narrow ; pollinia narrowly clavate.— 4A very remarkable plant, one speeimen 
ny seen, 
29. ACANTHEPHIPPIUM, Blume, 
Terrestrial; pseudobulbs 3-9-leaved. Leaves broad, plaited, petioled. 
Flowers few, large, flock " very short lateral raceme ; pedicels thickened 
after flowering. ” Sepals broad, cohering in a ventricose tube, with recurve 
tips, lateral adnate to the foot of the column; mentum very large, saccate. 
etals erect, narrow, included. Lip very small, stipitate on the foot ot 
the column, inflexed ; lateral lobes broad, erect; midlobe recurved, ore 
with a complex callus. Column short, stout; foot very long, inflexed ; 
anther 2-celled ; pollinia 8, erect, cohering by a granular mass.—Species 
» Indian and Malayan. 
„b A. bicolor, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1730; sepals and petals yellow 
with blood-red tips, side lobes of lip hatchet-shaped, midlobe short tongue- 
pePed, disk 3-lamellate. Thwaites Enum. 307; Maund. Bot. iv. t. 300; 
Walp, Ann. vi. 461. 
Ceyton; Central region, ascending to 2000 ft. . 
Seudobulbs ovoid, $3 in. high, smooth, elongating into a stout short fleshy 
1 Leaves 9-18 by 23-4} in., bases sheathing. Scape 3-7-fd., shea ied ; praci 
figur? ®vate-lanceolate ; flowers 1} in. like broad gibbous. based jugs. pindey 
the res the disk as a broad 2-lobed concave plate, Thwaites as of s lame æo 
outer are tubercled, the median slender and mucronate at both ends. 
2. A ; ` Sp. 177; in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 21; 
* Sylhetense, Lindl. Gen. § Sp. 177; in skied wi 
leaves long petioled sepals and tris white or straw-coloured fre kled with 
isk wads the tips, side lobes of lip faleate acute, s b "Norul iii, 7 
Ie, pj th 3-5 fleshy toothed lamelle. A. ringiflorum, Griff: + 07 
: Asiat. t. 325 mm 
Brus and Kuasta Mrs., alt. 9 4000 ft., Wallich, J. D. H. & T. T. UPPE 
€ : the Abor Mts. Griffith 3e 
