818 CXLVIII. ORCHIDEA. (J. D. Hooker.) [Phajus. 
leaves ; bracts oblong, acute; flowers 2 in. broad, greenish yellow and rufous ron 
and petals spreading; lip yellow with two red blotches.—Trimen, yA ott ek 
Pl. 88, refers this to P. bicolor, but the habit is quite different, the flower 
smaller, and lip short. I have seen no drawing of this. 
**¥* Raceme terminating the leafy stem. 
7. P. albus, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 3749; Gen. 5 Sp. Orchid. 128; 
pseudobulb 0, leaves distichous oblong- or linear-lanceolate act » als 
raceme sessile, bracts nearly as long as the flowers pet with a road 
and petals oblong-lanceolate acuminate, lip shovel-shaped wi ur short. 
toothed and crisped midlobe, disk with 5 crested ridges, 155. Paat. 
Bot. Reg. 1838, t. 33; Bot. Mag. t. 3991; Knowles j Weste t, = 181. 
Mag. v. t. 125; Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl. 205; Blume Mus. 1 108 ; Wara. 
Marshalliana, Reichb. f. in Linnea, xli. 65; Regel Gartenfl. t. 1878. & 329. 
Orchid. Alb. t. 130. P. Dodgsoni, Dean Floral Mag. 1878, boot) 
Thunia alba, Reichd. f. in Bot. Zeit. 1852, 764; Rev Horne un 
1.450. T. pulchra, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1881, n. 166. 
bracteatum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 466. 
nae ing to 
TRoPICAL HIMALAYA, alt. 2-5000 ft., from Garwhal to Sikkim, aontas on 
6000 ft.  KmastA Mrs., alt. 4-5000 ft. ARRACAN and Burma. The 
Matheran Hill, Graham, Dalzell, &c. : ollen 
Stems stout, 6-18 in., densely tufted, pendulous, leafy from the slighty, pl T 
base. Leaves 6-14 in., soft, glaucous beneath. Jaceme2-3in., " and petals erecto- 
bracts 13-23 in., chartaceous, narrowly cymbiform, acute ; sepals ith purple red or 
patent, 21-31 in. long, white; lip white or pale or dark yellow x and colour of lip. 
ochreous veins, Capsule 1 in. long.—Very variable in size of flowe na, Williams. 
See vars. Veitchiana, Warn. Orchid. Alb. viii. t. 326, and Wrig y M base. Thunia 
Van. Bensonia ; flowers rose-purple, lip deep purple with a white 
Bensoniz, Hook. f. Bot. Mag. t. 5694 ; Jennings Orchid. t. 35. 
25. NEPHELAPHYLLUM, Blume. 
. . aves few, 
Terrestrial creeping herbs with the habit of Neon E the leat ; 
petioled, ovate or cordate. Scape included in a large shea urved. Petals 
flowers racemed. Sepals free, narrow, spreading Or " spurred; spat 
linear. Lip sessile at the base of the column, erect, stou Y ather 2.celled; 
clavate, entire or 3-lobed. Column erect, 2-winged ; Species , Indian, 
pollinia 8, all parallel, adnate to a linear appendage.— "P 
Malayan and Chinese. 3. leaves 
1. N. cordifolium, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc, iii. $ linear, lip 
ovate-cordate acute or obtuse, racemes laxly 3-0-fld., duse isk with 3 
elongate cuneate, side lobes narrow, midlobe transverse we dlobe. Citheris 
thickened nerves ending in flattened spines on the hid 129; 
cordifolia, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 3750; Gen. & Sp. Orche. 
Orchid. Archip. Ind. t. 61, f. 3, A—D. 
Kuasta HiLzs, alt. 4-5000 ft., Wallich, Griffith, &c. e; sheaths 1-417» 
Stem 1-10 in., succulent, ascending from the creeping rhizome Fa from the 59 j 
membranous, hyaline. Leaves 23-43 in., membranous, 0-/-ne valling the pe? d 
petiole 1-2 in. Scape 4-6 in.; sheath tubular; bracts 4 in, eag greenish stripe 
and ovary; sepals 2 in. long to tip of spur, and petals S-n bescent from the 
with purple; lip pale purple, longer than the sepals, disk pu 
to the middle. Capsule 3 in., oblong. Archip. Ind. 17, 
2. N. pulchrum, Blume Bijd. 372, t. 32; Orchid. 
