Anthogonium.) CXLVIII, ORCHIDEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 823 
Journ, Linn. Soc. iii. 99. A. Griffithii, Reichb. f. in Bonpland. ii. 90; in 
Allg. Gartenzeit. 1856, 218; in Walp. Ann. vi. 4/1.—Anthog., Griff. Notul. 
m. 383; Je. Pl. Asiat. t. 345. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; Nepal, Wallich ; Sikkim, alt. 7500 ft., Treutler. KHASIA 
and Naga HIts, alt. 4-6000 ft., Griffith, &c. TENASSERIM ; at Moulmein, Lobb. 
Pseudobulb size of a hazel or walnut. Leaves 6-12 by 4-1 in., on a slender stem, 
uceolate. Scape equalling or exceeding the leaves, slender; bracts very small; 
pedicel with ovary 3-1 in., at right angles to the perianth, both rose-cold.; tube of 
Perianth $ im, long, 2-3 times as long as the free parts; limb of lip cuneate or 
recurved, obscurely lobed, spotted with bright red. Capsule 1 in., fusiform. 
28. JOSEPHIA, Wigit. 
Epiphytic stemless tufted herbs; root fibres very stout. Leaves 
radica » Tigidly coriaceous. Flowers very small, on the branches of panicled 
spikes. Sepals broad, subequal, concave, connivent. Petals narrower. 
tp adnate to the base of the column, erect, fleshy, concave; lateral lobes 
Small, erect; midlobe small, entire, papillose, with a basal callus uniting 
e side lobes. Column erect, broad, nearly as long as the sepals, shortly 
“winged above, foot 0; anther acuminate, 2-celled; pollinia 4, oblong, 
Parallel, subeaudate, attached to the rostellum by a viscus. 
la l. J. lanceolata, Wight Ic. t. 1742; leaves petioled linear-oblong or 
~anceolate subacute. Walp. Ann. vi. 924. Polystachya ramosa, Gardn. mss. 
Cay STERN GHATS; from the Concan, Stocks, &c., to Travancore, Wight, &c. 
LON ; abundant in the Central Province. 
gh saves 3-5 in., narrowed into a petiole 1-2 in., young clothed with hyaline 
Cathe. Scape 4-12 in. , slender, and its branches stiff; bracts short, ovate, ap- 
like nt ; flowers } in. broad, white tinged with purple; sepals obtuse.—Inflorescence 
at of a Statice. Wight, on Jerdon’s authority, mentions the curious fact of 
© persistent; continuously flowering spikes. 
ote J. latifolia, Wight Ic. t. 1743; leaves subsessile broadly oblong 
use. Walp. Ann. vi. 924. 
DE on the Pulney Mts., Wight. Niranii HILLS; Wynaad, Jerdon 
. Kew). l 
mat of J. Tonceolata, but leaves much broader, more coriaccous, and with a 
and ti Stouter shorter petiole, purple beneath; flowers yellow with purple stripes, 
IP of lip.—I have no materials for describing tbe flowers. 
29, GroxwERa, Blume. 
Ke Tlis genus, which I erroneously believed to be British Indian when I drew up the 
3 bo the Genera, p. 670, is as hitherto known confined to the Malayan Archipelago 
Sole] ‘ACific, _It consists of two species, and is distinguished from Agrostophyllum 
f. by having only 4 pollinia. Some of the following species of the latter genus, 
^1 1 have not seen the pollen, may prove to belong to it. 
30. AGROSTOPHYLLUM, Blume. 
lis PiPhytes with tufted sheathed flattened leafy stem. Leaves distichou S, 
*'; sheaths flattened persistent. Flowers very small, white, crowded in 
1 rarely in small 
Sessile terminal heads, mixed with long paleaceous bracts, 
oot epals erect, conniving, concave ; lateral broader, adnate to the 
of the column. Petals narrow or broad. Lip adnate to the short 
ck € column, short, erect, entire or 3-fid. Column short, stout, 
ened above; anther 2-celled; pollinia 8, ovoid, free or connected in 
