Diplomeris.] CXLVIII. ORCHIDEX. (J.D. Hooker.) 167 
Flowers large. Sepals subequal, free, lanceolate, spreading. Petals longer 
and broader. Tip sessile at the base of the column, spreading, very broad, 
entire, spurred. Column very short; rostellum broadly dilated, mem- 
branous, beneath which is a broad oblong lamina from the column ; anther- 
cells thick, parallel, tubes very long incurved ascending; caudicles of 
pollinia very long siender, glands small naked; stigmatic processes 0; 
rostellum prominent between the anther-cells. 
l. D. pulchella, Don Prodr. 26 (excl. hab.); glabrous, leaves ensi- 
form, lip broadly obcordate. Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 330; in Journ. 
Lim. Soe. iii. 44. Diplochilos longifolium, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7064; in 
ot. Reg. under t.1499, Orchis uniflora, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 452; Grif. 
Notul, iii. 368. Habenaria uniflora, Griff. Ic. Plant. Asiat. t. 338, f. 2. 
‘agnathis pulchella, Spreng. Syst. Veg. iii. 694. 
Ener: Hints, alt, 4-5000 ft., Rowburgh, Wallich, &e. 
Rootstock creeping, subtuberous and fibrous; stem short. Leaves usually 2, 
em br 2-4 in, acute. Scape about equalling the leaves, naked, 1-fld. ; 
ract cymbiform, green, acuminate; flower 1-1} in. diam., white; sepals ovate- 
^ Ceolate, acute ; petals much larger, broadly obovate rounded or ovate-oblong ; 
pi In. diam., sinus cuspidate ; spur 14 in., incurved or upcurved, thickened beyond 
nulle tip acute.—Don gives “ Nepal, Wallich,” as the habitat, but Wallich’s 
igne tne are from the Silhet Mts, (Khasia hills). Don's generic description 1s unintel- 
e, and he erroneously describes the flowers as rose purple. 
?. D. hirsuta, Lindl. G ; . hi leaf oblong, 
i . Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 331; hirsute, lea S 
lip puneately orbicular. Diplochilos hirsutum, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7069 ; 
ot. Reg. under t, 1499. 
Tropicar HIMALAYA; Nepal, Wallich; Western Bhotan, alt. 1500 ft., Gammic. 
Lu: * globose, Leaf 2-2} in., radical, with sometimes a small second. Scape 
oblong, sy Owers l} in. diam. ; bract oblong, sheathing ; sepals 5-nerved, ova i 
$ Subacute ; petals very much larger, orbicular ; lip,with a short slender c aw, 
ing” " rounded, apiculate or not; spur lj in., very slender, incurved an 
108. HEMIPILIA, Lindl. 
Terrestrial l-leave i d. Flowers 
- d tuberous herbs. Leaf radical, broad. s 
ay racemose, Sepals equal in length, naaa spreading. Petals broadly 
> ip continuous with the column, broad, obscurely 3-lobe l, 
jectin Spur trumpet-shaped. Column very short; rostellum broa 
0; anthe from between the anther cells, complicate; stigmatic Prone 
Pollinia 9 cella Subdivergent, tips produced into grooves of the rostellum ; 
» &udicles long, glands distant exposed. 
ip E Cordifolta, Lindl. Gen, & Sp. Orchid: 290; leat ovate-cordate, 
ind] in oblong, spur longer than the sepals. Platanthera cordifolia . 
"" n Wall. Cat. 7049; Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 296. 
i rie TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; alt. 4-500-7000 ft., from Nepal, Wallich, to 
, amble, > 
ban A ` Zoe Leaf 2-4 in., amplexicaul, acute, many-nerved. Scape with few or 
Tal sepa] ie, 4-10 in,; bracts shorter than the ovary; flowers i-$ n 3 
p oblong obtuse, lateral faleately oblong; petals subacute; lip w ith low 
tells Dear] 9 lobes and a broad suberenate midlobe, spur recurved ; anther sessile, 
Y parallel, pollinia clavate, caudicles short, glands rather distant. 
2, DI € m lod . 
* calophylla, Par, & Reichb. f. in Journ. Bot. xii. (1874) 197; 
