Galeola.] CXLVIII. OROHIDEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 89 
Stem a span high from branching tubers. Flowers 2 in. diam,— Thejdentification 
of the Assam drawing with Blume's figure and description is necessarily imperfect ; 
but as far as it goes there is no reason to suppose that these represent two species. 
A 2 G. pusilla, Hook. f.; stem flexuous from a woody nodose root- 
stock, with several short tubular basal sheaths and two open ones higher 
up 3-fld., bracts lanceolate equalling the ovary, sepals broadly ovate-oblong 
subacute, petals as large obtuse, lip orbicular concave retuse with a very 
amall obtuse apical lobe in the sinus, disk papillose with 3 central low 
ndges. 
Prev; on the Pookee ridges, Kurz (in Herb. Calcutt.). . 
. Whole plant 5 in. high, white; rootstock tortuous, woody, as thick as a sparrow's 
QU, with woody roots as thick as the stock. Stem slender, basal sheaths i In., 
truncate, funnel-shaped ; bracts } in. long, membranous ; flowers about 2 in. diam. ; 
“pals and petals 5-7-nerved; lip with a brown lunate band, apical lobe recurved ; 
column long, semiterete ; anther erect, oblong, 2-celled; pollinia hypocrepiform ? ; 
gma below the clinandrium in front.—I have seen but one specimen of this curious 
e plant, as to the genus of which I am doubtful. 
** Stem branched, scandent. 
5, G. altissima, Reichb. f. Xen. Orchid. ii. 77 ; quite glabrous, stem 
AT Slender, spikes very many-flowered, sepals and petals linear-oblong, 
lip with a broad flesh y ridge and a 2-lobed woolly mass on thedisk. Cyrtosia 
altisima, Blume Bijdr. 306; Rumph. i. t. 70; Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 
6. Erythorchis altissima, Blume Rumph. i. 200; Lindl. l. c. 438, in part. 
€matorchis altissima, Blume l. e. iv. t. 200 B. 
PENANG, Curtis, PERAK, Scortechini.—DisTRIB. Malay Islands. 
ind ot of fleshy thick fibres. Stem 50-120 ft., excessively branched, flexuous, fleshy 
ow ard, reddish, branches slender, internodes swollen ; spikes 6-10 in., pendu ous; 
wend 3 m. long ; Sepals obtuse, 5-nerved, and narrower 3-nerved peta smi h 
i ed tips ; lip eymbiform, tip rounded erosely waved, disk with a median e 
Y puberulous disk reaching to the middle, beyond which is a 2-lobed woolly 
lupe sides of lip thin, transversely barred with purple, with slender nerves and 
e — hairs ; column rather long ; anther mitriform. Capsule linear, 3-10 in. 
8 acuminate, valves membranous. 
later "Hydra, Reichb. f. Xen. Orchid. ii. 77 ; furfuraceously puberulous, 
oral Sepals obliquely ovate, dorsal oblong, petals elliptic, lip eymbiform 
the Sege within and with a compressed erect grooved callus towar ls 
Vani, - altissima?, Reichb. f. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxx. 185. 
Yo illa pterosperma, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7402. ? V. rubiginosa, Griff. 
Part (, DL 247. Erythorchis altissima, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 438, in 
. (not of Blume) 
Par ED HIMALAYA ; in the Rishap Valley, Wing. TENASSERIM ; at Moulmein, 
Diui, J SANG, Curtis. PERAK, SINGAPORE, and Maracca, Wallich, &e.— 
* Yava, Sumatra. l , 
loose} lofty climber ; branches much stouter than in G. altissima; inflorescence 
ip with ranched ; flowers much larger, 3 in. diam., sepals and petals broader, an 
Her} out the flat ridge and tuft of wool.—Blume’s specimens ot G. altissima in 
e “W Consists of fruit of that plant and flowering branches of this. 
de Catheartii, Hook.f, branches ver robust, sepals and petals 
ie, Do li b Ji dulate and 
ciliate, gig revolute, lip cymbiform acute, margins everted undu 
disk naked, 
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Fr HIMALAYA Cle. Cathcart). 
