816 CXLVIII. oncHIDEE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Acanthephippium 
Pseudobulbs stout, narrow, short or lengthening into a leafy stem p 
high. Leaves 6-10 in., elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate. Scape 2-6 in. "ley nites 
sheathed ; flowers 1} in. long, fleshy, like those of A. bicolor.— Lind ey white 
Griffith’s ringijlorwm with sylhetense, but it may be another species, having 
flowers. 
3. A. striatum, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1838, Mise. 45 ; flowers white 
streaked with red, mentum spur-like, side lobes of lip very broad fa at 
obtuse, midlobe contracted acute scarlet, lip with a single median cres 
ridge and thickened lateral nerves. Walp. Ann. vi. 460. , m 
NEPAL (Hort. Kew). StxKim, @rifith’s Collectors (Kew Distrib, 5289) and ^c. 
in Herb, Calcutt. . 
Very near 4. sylhetense, but the flowers are much shorter, and the side lobes of 
lip very different. 
24. PHAJ'US, Lour. 
Terrestrial or epiphytic large stout herbs. Leaves plaite 
on the pseudobulb, or axillary or terminal; flowers larg Lip adnate 
racemed. Sepals and petals subequal, spreading or suberect. P urred, 
to the base of and embracing the column, erect, base gibbous i etely 
midlobe various. Column long, stout; foot 0; anther incon Species 
4-celled ; pollinia 8, attached by fours to a large granular viscus. 
about 14, tropics of the Old World. , 
I am not sure that the following arrangement according to the pon 
scape, being derived from often imperfect dried specimens, will hold good. 
* Scape from the side of the pseudobuld, tall, stout. 
1. P. Wallichii, Lindl. in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. ii. 46, t. 158 ; ied st 
Orchid. 126; leaves 1-2 ft. elliptic-lanceolate acuminate, soap rt or long, 
sepals and petals spreading lanceolate acuminate, spur slender s : 
lip with a tubular limb and ovate-lanceolate acute or acumi 
d. Scape lateral 
e, handsome, 
tion of the 
nate sometimes 
> x 
truncate crisped midlobe. Pact. Mag. vi. t. 193; Walp. A iin Ind. 
? P. Blumei, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 127; Blume Orchid. Sert. Orchid. 
2,t. 1; De Friese Hlust. t. 8. P. bicolor, Lindl. L c. 1285 SOY eg gp. 
t. 25; Bot. Reg. 1839, Misc. 61; Bot. Mag. t. 4078; Wight ^ 5 458. P. 
Thwaites Enum. 300; Blume Mus. Bot. ii. 178; Walp. Ann. Tiimodorum 
grandifolius, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 3747 (not of Loureiro). 
Tankervillis, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 466 (not of Aiton). y, Wallich, 
Sikkim HIMALAYA; in tropical valleys, J. D. H. ASSAM and S 2- 000 tt 
&c. Urrer BORMA, Griffith. 'TENASsERIM, Parish, CEYLON, W^ 
—DisrRiB. Malay Islands ? > 
Pseudobulbs 1-1} in. diam., conical, sheathed by the leaf-bases, s thicker than 
broad, sometimes spotted ; petiole 6-10 in. Scape 2-4 ft., sometimes `, 
: jam. i 
A "ers 4-5 in. di 
Co nes ] | " En sc. Dan 1.3 flowers 47 e 
the thumb ; bracts 2 in., spathaceous, caducous ; pedicel 1 in. ; „brown with à 8° 
Leaves 24-8 1 
sepals and petals white greenish or rosy without, within yellow ith a yellow bases 
margin, rarely white or concolorous; tube of lip pink or rec “Capsule 2-2} in- 
midlobe orange, red, or white and pink; spur 4-j in. long. f no characte 
Possibly a form of the Chinese P. grandifolius, Lour. 1 know 9 
whereby to distinguish P. Blumei. : Orchid. 
2. P. veratrifolius, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 3746; Ge Y aate cymbi- 
127; scape shorter than the leafing stem, flowers crowded, and recurved 
form lanceolate, sepals and petals dirty-white spreading 9? side lo 
lanceolate acute, spur narrowly conical, lip short broad ye 
rounded and short retuse midlobe crenulate. 
