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Phajus. | CXLVIII. ORCHIDEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) 817 
Syrnzr, Wallich. 
Pseudobulbs 3-5 in., elongate, naked. Leaves 2-3 ft. by 2-6 in. Scape 12- 
18 in.; sheaths acuminate; flowers lj in. diam., in short pyramidal racemes ; 
bracts 11 in, long, subpersistent; pedicels short; lip longer than the sepals.— 
Described chiefly from drawings in Herb, Kew by Roxburgh and another. 
3. P. maculatus, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 3748; Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 
127; leaves elliptic-lanceolate acuminate, scape with tubular sheaths, 
racemes many and dense-fld., flowers golden, sepals and petals erect oblong 
very obtuse concave, side lobes of lip narrow, midlobe very short broad 
crumpled, spur short conical. odd. Bot. Cab. t. 1803; Bot. Mag. t. 3960; 
Blume Mus. Bot. ii. 180; Orchid. Archip. Ind. 9. Bletia flava, Wall. mss. 
B. Woodfordii, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 2719; Reichb. Fl. Exot. t. 63. 
TRoPICAL HIMALAYA; Nepal, Wallich; Sikkim, J. D. H. Kuasia MTS., 
Grifith.— DISTRIB. China, Japan. 
, Pseudobulbs broadly ovoid, as large „as the fist. Leaves 1-1} ft., often spotted 
with dull yellow. Scape 2-3 ft.; bracts 1-1} in., obtuse; pedicels very short; 
Sepals lj in., often tipped with green; midlobe of lip orange-brown or con- 
colorous, 
** Scape from the top of the pseudobulb, 
4 P. callosus, Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 1848, 287 (with cut of ft.); 
leaves radical or subradical linear-lanceolate acuminate, scape from the 
top of the pseudobulb at the base of the leaves, sepals linear-oblong 
‘cute, petals linear dilated above the middle, lip with a tubular limb and 
short midlobe, spur short incurved. Blume Mus. Bot. ii. 178; Orchid. 
Archip. Ind. 4, t. 2; Reichb. f. Xen. Orchid. ii. t. 192. Limodorum callo- 
8um, Blume Bijd. 374, t. 6. . 
PERAK, King’s Collector.—DisTRIB. Java. . d 
ery similar to P. Wallichii, but distinguished by its more oblong sepals an 
the broad ends of the petals. Flowers dull reddish brown; tube of lip yellowish 
White with a pink tinge, bright red towards the apex, midlobe retuse.— lhe colours 
Probably vary as in. Wallichit. 
== Scape axillary or from amongst the leaves. 
9. P. mishmensis, Reichb. f. in Bonpl. v. 43; in Walp. Ann, vi. 
122, 928 ; hardly pseudobulbous, im tall, leaves alternate elliptic-lanceo, 
ate, Scape axillary, bracts lanceolate caducous, raceme lax-fld., sepals an 
als erecto-patent linear-oblong subacute concave rose-cold., lip not 
exceeding the sepals, side lobes rounded and small 2-lobuled midl rbe quite 
entire, spur narrowly conical. Limatodes mishmensis, Lindl. § Pat. FI, 
li. 36. 
ard, i 
U Sikkim HIMALAYA; in hot valleys, Clarke, (Ic. Cathcart). Mishmi Hills ir 
PPER Assam, Griffith. 21 
„Stem, in Ic. Cathcart, 3—4 ft., sheathed below, 6-8-leaved above, Leares 6-12 by 
-9 mM., acuminate, Scapes 1-2, rather slender, not exceeding the leaves; flowers 
> ^3 În, long; pedicel and ovary as long ; lip white, axis pubescent. 
6. P lurid j ; dobulb ?, leaves lanceolate 
Set us, Thwaites Enum. 300; pseudobnib 7, 
acuminate, raceme few-fld., bracts caducous, sepals and petals lanceola to 
“Uminate, lip rounded obscurely 3-lobed, side lobes short broad rounded, 
a waved, disk hairy, spur very short. 
EXLON ; in the Saffragam district, Thwaites. 
errestrial ; sti apagam district, T " 35 in. Scapes 1-2, as long as the 
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