-e ë < o naa 
Ceratostylis.] OXLVIIL. oRoHIDE®. (J. D. Hooker.) 897 
in ? 9. robusta, Hook. f. Ic. Plant. ined. ; rhizome stont ascending root- 
a g an small distant erect pseudobulbs clothed with reticulate acuminate 
kia NM sheaths, leaves 4-5 in. solitary erect linear-lanceolate acuminate, 
RU enclosed in the sheath with the pseudobulb very slender 1-fld., 
um cylindric, lip long clawed spathulate obtuse. 
PERAK 3 alt. 4900 ft., Wray. |; 
a little loe as thick as a goose-quill; trabeculately reticulate, membranous. Scape 
the ti of ee than the pseudobulbs ; bract small, broad; flower about } in., from 
longer’ th the mentum to that of the dorsal sepal, pale yellow ; mentum hoary, 
entire, ti an the oblong obtuse 5-nerved sepals; Jip apparently quite smooth and 
» Up fleshy.—A remarkable species, probably scandent. 
32. CRYPTOCHILUS, Wall. 
baie” Ow epiphytes; pseudobulbs crowded, 1-2-leaved. Leaves coriaceous, 
disti qumplicate or petioled. Scape terminal, naked; flowers close set in 
an Chous spikes, shorter than their persistent bracts. Sepals connate in 
cae qually 3-lobed ovoid or urceolate gibbous 5-toothed tube. Petals 
élu. Lip included, adnate to and incumbent on the foot of the 
polling narrow, erect. Column erect, top dilated toothed; anther 2-celled ; 
peties 2$ Obovoid or oblong, connected in fours by a small viscus.— 
owe? Sanguinea, Wall. Tent. Fl Nep. 36, t. 26; Cat. 7530; 
Lindl pubescent longer than broad bright red, sepals acuminate. 
898. 4 Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 193; in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 21; in Bot. Reg. 
(623, Wight Ie. t. 1757; Walp. Ann. vi. 461. 
SH HBOPICAL HIMALAYA ; Nepal, Wallich; Sikkim, J. D. H. KnuasiA and 
Pre ILLS, alt. 4-5000 ft., Grifith, Prain, &c. . ; 
stout] "dobulbs variable. Leaves 3-8 in., lower ensiform, upper linear-oblong, 
nt; petioled. Scape 3-5 in., stout, naked; spike 3-5 in.; bracts linear, pubes- 
3 Petals and lip obovate ; pollen green. Capsule à iÐ., oblong, erect. 
2. e. lutea, Lindi. i j iii ; labrous 
. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 20; flowers glabro: 
subglobose yellow, sepals obtuse. Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1882, ii. 733. 
üDEMPERATE HIMALAYA; Sikkim, alt. 6000 ft., and Bhotan, Griffith, &c. (Kew 
rib. 5228, 5229, 5229/1). MUNNIPORE; on Kohima, Clarke. 
see udobulbs crowded, oblong. Leaves 1-2, 3-5 in., linear- 
lanco e or petioled. Scape 2-4 in., rather slender; spike as long ; 
ate; pollen whitish, ^ Capsule 1 in., ellipsoid. 
lanceolate, acute, 
petals and lip 
33, TRICHOSMA, Lindi. 
pPiphytic ; stem tufted, sheathed, cylindric, 2-leaved. Leaves terminal, 
Se Dbosite, petioled. Scape terminal; flowers few, large, white, racemed. 
tolam. subequal, spreading, lateral broader, adnate to the base of the 
9-] be : Lip articulate with the base of the column, claw incumbent, 
voed, disk lamellate. Column short, top toothed, anther with 2-rounded 
* * . 
Tere dages pollinia 8, broadly ovate, compressed, cohering in fours by a 
Y 
*Ty near sect, 7T, 'ymeneria of Eria. 
T. suavis, Lindl. i isc. 83. T. cylindripoda 
; Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1841, Misc. 83. 1. cylindripoda, 
Gri Notul, ili 299. Eria mavis Lindi. in Journ, Linn. Soc. in. 52. 
