82 CXLVIII. ORCHIDEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Doritis. 
Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 239; in Journ. Linn. Soc, iii. 41. Æ. carnosum, 
Griff. Notul. iii. 365; Ic. Plant. Asiat. t. 338 A. 
SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA ; from Kumaon, alt. 3-6000 ft., eastwards to BaOTAN, 
the KuasrA Mrs., MUNNIPORE and BURMA. ; 
Roots 1-3 ft., flat, 1-3 in. broad, forming large tortuous tufts. Leaves few, 8-bin., 
obovate-oblong, obtuse or subacute, narrowed to the sessile base, soft when dry. 
Scape 1-2 in.; bracts small, broad ; flowers 3 in. diam., mauve purple; midlobe of 
lip dark red or purple. Capsule 14 in., fusiform. 
2. D. Wightii, Benth. in Gen. Plant. iii. 574; scape elongate simple 
or branched, side lobes of spreading lip broad cuneate-obovate, midlobe 
obcordate. Phalenopsis Wightii, Reichd. f. in Bot. Zeit. 1862, 214. Airides 
latifolium, Thwaites Enum. 430. 
Eastern HIMALAYA; Sikkim (Zc. in Hort. Calcutt.) ; Bhotan, Lister, CHITTA- 
Gone (Hort. Caleutt.). BURMA; Moulmein, Parish; Mougong, Grifith. The 
Cincans, Heyne. MALABAR, Wight, Ee, CEYLON, Thwaites. 
Habit of D. tenialis, but leaves rather larger, scape much longer, and lip very 
different. 
005. RH YNCHOSTYLIS, Blume. 
Epiphytic, stem stout leafy, pseudobulbs 0. Leaves very thick, linear, 
2-lobed. Flowers in long dense drooping cylindric racemes, bright-cold. 
Sepals and broader petals obtuse, spreading, contracted at the base. Lip 
adnate to the base of the column, deeply saccate, mouth of sac pubescent 
within, side lobes 0, outer margin produced into a clawed dilated limb. 
Column short stout, foot 0; rostellum shortly beaked ; anther imperfectly 
2-celled ; pollinia 2, subglobose, 2-cleft, strap filiform, gland small.— 
Species 2 or 3, Indian or Malayan. 
R. retusa, Blume Bijdr. 286, t. 49; leaves deeply channelled keeled 
remorse or retuse, raceme drooping, sac cylindric much longer than the 
limb of the lip. R. præmorsa, Blume l.c. R. guttata, Reichb. f. in Bonpland. 
ü.93. R. Garwalica, Reichb. f. in Walp. Ann. vi. 888. Saccolabium gutta- 
tum, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7308; Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 220; in Journ, Linn. 
Soc. iii. 32; Bot. Mag. t. 4108; Wight Ic. t. 1745-6; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. 
Fl. 263; Hartm. Parad, ii. t. 3; Orchidoph. 1888, 273 (var. gigantea) ; De 
Vriese Orchid. X. 14. Warner Sel. Orchid. Ser. 2, t. 18 ;. Griff. Ic. Pl. Asiat. 
t. 819. S. praemorsum, Lindl. l. e. 221. S. Rheedii, Wight Ic. v. 19. S. 
retusum, Fl. des Serres xiv. 191, t. 1463-4. S. Heathii, Hort., ex Gard. Chron. 
1885, 369. S. Blumei, Lindl. Sert. t. 47 ; in Bot. Reg. 1841, Misc. 55 ; 1U. Hortic. 
t. 545; Puydt. t. 37 ; Warner Orchid. Alb. t. 169 and t. 238 (var.) ; Pescator. 
t. 21. S. garwalieum, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soe. ii. 82; in Gard. Chron. 
1879, 102. Sarcanthus guttatus, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1443. Ærides gut- 
tatum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 471; Regel Gartenfl. 1863, 415. Æ. retusum, 
Swartz in Schrad. Diar. 1799, 130; Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 130; Grah. Cat. 
Bomb. Pl. 204. ZE.spicatum, Don Prodr.31. AI. praemorsum, Willd. Lé 
Limodorum retusum, Swartz in Nov. Act. Upsal. vi. 80. Epidendrum 
retusum, Linn. Sp. PL 1351.E. Hippium, Herb. |{Ham.—Rheede Hort., Mal. 
xii. t. 1. 
TnoPICAL HIMALAYA, from Garwhal eastwards to Assam and Tenasserim, and 
MEME to BENGAL, the WESTERN PENINSULA and CkvroN,— DisTRIB. Malay 
slands, 
Stem stout, creeping in trees. Leaves 6-20 by 2-2 in.,c . in. 3 
bracts broad, obtuse, membranous ; flowers 1-3 2 Siam "white obl with piak or 
violet; lateral sepals gibbously orbicular-ovate, obtuse or apiculate, dorsal oblong i 
