192 CXLVIII. ORCHIDEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) [Supplement, $c. 
P. 817. 3. P. MACULATUS. After Mus. Bot. ii. 180 insert Williams Orchid. 
Alb. t. 381, and place Blum. Orchid. Archip. Ind. 9, after Reichb. Fl. Exot. t. 63. 
8/1. P. nanus, Hook. f. Ic. Plant. t. 2088 ined. ; leaves 4-5 in., scape very 
short closely sheathed, raceme dense-fld., sepals and petals lanceolate acuminate, lip 
as broad as long puberulous within, side lobes rounded, midlobe short broad undulate, 
spur 0. 
P BENGAL; in the Buxa Doar, Gamble (in Herb. Calcutt.). 
Pseudobulbs 0. Roots tufted; rootstock stout, with grass-like sheaths somes 
times much longer than the leaf. Leaf elliptic, acute; petiole 2 in., stout. Scape 
from the base of the leaf and shorter than it is, sheaths subacute ; bracts cymbiform, 
acuminate; sepals lj in. long; column short, stout, puberulous.—A very singular 
species, of which I have seen but two specimens, kindly lent from the Calcutta 
Herbarium by Dr. King. The long grass-like sheaths or primordial leaves are 
singular, 
P.818. 7. P. ALBUS. Var. Bensonic, after description insert Phajus Bensoni®, 
Hemsl. in Gard. Chron. 1882, 565; and after Jenning’s Orchid. add Williams 
Orchid. Alb. ii. t. 67.— Veitch (Man. Orchid. Pt. vi. 19) does not regard Benson, 
alba and Marshalliana as specifically distinct; he distinguishes Bensonte from 
alba by the larger differently-coloured flowers, with the midlobe of the lip larger m 
proportion to the whole lip, and more oblong, and by the wings of the column being 
toothed. He keeps Marshalliana as a form from being usually more tall and Wen 
the lip shorter, the hairs on the crests of the lip more numerous and longer, the 
column shorter and stouter with the apical wings more dilated; and as a subvar. 
this he maintains Reichenbach’s var. ionophlebia (Gard. Chron. 1885, 70), with the 
centre of the lip pale yellow, the sides streaked with purple. 
25. NEPHELAPHYLLUM, Blume. 
In the generic description in the 2nd line after leaf, add, or elongate and 
exserted ; and after 3. N. TENUIFLORUM, add— 
4. N. NUDUM, Hook. f. ; leaves ovate acuminate, scape slender much longer m 
the leaves few-fld., bracts slender, lip elongate narrowly subpanduriform, side lo 
small acute, midlobe transversely oblong retuse with a short broad semicircular 
lamella on the mibrib towards the tip. 
SIKKIM HIMALAYA; King. a. 
Stem stout, 4 in., ascending. Leaves distant, 1-2 in., lower petioled, upper sessile ; 
sheath short, membranous. Scape 6 in., with a basal and median tubular appres à; 
sheath nearly 1 in. long; bracts 4 in., as long as the pedicel and ovary, deflexe ; 
sepals and petals spreading, subequal, linear, subacute, 3-nerved : lip nearly 1 in. long 
from the base of the stout truncate spur to the tip of the dorsal sepal, membro 
nous, 3-nerved with branching side nerves, gradually dilated upwards to the tooth-like 
side lobes, midlobe broader than the rest of the lip, margins undulate.—Near ^ 
tenuiflorum, which has also a tall scape. 
5. N. GRANDIFLORUM, Hook. f.; leaves ovate deeply cordate acuminate, scap? 
longer than the leaves 2-fld., flowers 1 in. diam., lip oblong, side lobes small obtuse; 
midlobe ovate tip rounded, disk with 3 keels from base to apex. 
Perak (Ic. Scortechini). Maraya, Kunstler (Ic. in Herb. Calcutt.). . 
Leaves 3-5 by 21-31 in., strongly nerved, basal lobes rounded, sinus narrow? 
petiole 3-4 in., stout. Scape with raceme 8-10 in., pubescent, sheaths tubu an 
appressed, membranous; bracts small, lanceolate ; flowers greenish flushed with re& 
hp purple; sepals lanceolate, acute; petals rather broader, elliptic; lip decury® i 
white externally, mentum truncate; column white, purple at the base.— Descr ts) 
from a fine drawing in Herb. Calcutt., perhaps (as usual with native artis 
exaggerated in dimensions. 
P. 820, 2. TAINIA PENANGIANA, after Hook. f. insert Ic. Plant. t. 2089 ined, 
6. T. LATIFOLIA, add Syn, Cymbid., Griff. Notul. iii. 843; Jc. Plant. 
Asiat, t. 319. 
