16 XLVIII. oROHiDEE. (J. D. Hooker.) ( Oleisostoma, 
C. LORATUM, Reichh. f. in Flora, 1872, 273; stem short, leaves cuneately lorate 
obliquely acuminate, racemes stout strict, flowers small, bracts small triangular 
persistent, sepals and petals ligulate obtusely acute, side lobes of lip transverse 
retuse with a minute callus at each internal angle, spur short hemispheric, scale 
under column sharply 2-fid to the middle, limb ovate obtusely acute.—Assam. | 
ECHIOGLOSSUM STRIATUM, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1879, 390; stem erect 
strict branched, sheaths very rough (arpophyllaceous), leaves linear-ligulate uu- 
equally acute very coriaceous keeled towards the tip, racemes short drooping, 
flowers small dense yellow streaked with red, sepals and narrower petals oblong 
obtusely acute, lip obtusely conic, side lobes triangular erect, midlobe hastately 
triangular, tip acutely 2-toothed, callus below the column ligulate, strap of pollen 
linear, gland very large, hippocrepiforin. Sikkim Himalaya (Hort. Mackay)—(Echio- 
glossum is reduced to Cleisostoma in Gen. Piant.) 
67. ORNITHOCHILUS, Wall. 
Epiphytes: Stem very short, pseudobulb 0. Leaves few, broad, flat. 
Scapes lateral, slender; flowers small, racemed or panicled. Sepals spread 
ing, subequal, lateral obliquely obovate. Petals linear. Lip much larger 
than the sepals, clawed, side lobes subquadrate, midlobe clawed inflexe 
lobulate and fimbriate, with a velvety flap over the mouth of the 
short incurved spur, which is distant from the base. Column short, foot 0, 
rostellum forcipate; anther low 2-celled, pollinia 2, subglobose or oblong, 
grooved, strap obcuneate.—Species 1 or 2, Indian and Chinese. 
O. fuscus, Wall. in Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 242. O. cublepharum, 
Hance in Journ. Bot. xxii. (1884), 364. Aerides difforme, Wall. in Lindl. 
l. c. 242, Sert. Orchid. Frontisp. {.7; Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1865, 098 ; 
Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 41; Walp. Ann. vi. 899 ; A. Hystrix. Lindl. 
in J. L. S. 42 (not of Gen. & Sp. Orchid.). 
Troricat HIMALAYA; from Garwhal? Falconer, to SIKKIM, and the KHASIA 
Ba, alt. 4-5000 ft. 'TENASSERIM ; at Moulmein, Parish.—DisTRIB. China. 
Stem i-i in., 2-3-leaved. Leaves 3-7 by 1-1} in., obliquely elliptic-oblong; 
acute, many nerved, base narrowed. Racemes simple or sparingly branched, 6-12 in., 
lax-fld. ; bracts small, subulate; flowers 4~} iu. broad; sepals and petals yellow 
streaked with red; side lobes of lip striped with brown, midlobe variable in breadth, 
red, its lobules reflexed, the mid-one entire or fimbriate. Capsule 1 in., fusiform, 
pedicelled, 
68. TIENIOPHYLLUI, Blume. 
Small stemless epiphytes, leafless when flowering, roots flattened 
pseudobulbs 0. Leaves linear or few or 0.  Pedunmcle very short, filiform, 
simple, flowers very minute, spicate. Sepals and petals subequal, free oF 
connate at the base. Lp sessile, saccate or spurred; side lobes short, 
broad, midlobe small fleshy. Column short, broad. foot 0; anther 2- 
celled; pollinia 4, in superposed pairs, strap linear, gland small.—Species 
about 6, Indian, Maliyan, Australian and Pacific. 
There are several Perak plants in Scortechini collections that are probably Tenio- 
phylia; but the species are obscure, minute, and very imperfectly known, and there 
are no doubt many to be discovered, 
l. T. Alwisii, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 42; peduncle glabrous, 
sepals and petals connate, lip cymbiform. Thwaites Enum. 305, Reich. 
f. Xen. Orchid. 67, t. 116. 
