Tan. 7060. 
SPATHOGLOTTIS IXIOIDES. 
Native of the Eastern Himalaya. 
Nat. Ord. OrncHIDEx.—Tribe EPIDENDRES. 
Genus Spatnoctortis, Blume; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 511.) 
SpaTHoGLortis ixioides, pseudobulbis parvis depresso-conicis fere nudis, folio 
solitario gramineo tenuissimo basi vaginisque tubulosis puberulis, scapo 
gracili 1-2-flore bractea vaginante appressa puberula, floribus aureis, 
sepalis petalisque subsequalibus elliptico-ovatis obtusis puberulis, labello 
inter lobos laterales obtusos saccato, lobo medio obcordato basi utrinque 
appendiculato v. auriculato, disco 2-calloso puberulo. 
S. ixioides, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. No. 3745; Gen. §& Sp. Orchid. p. 120; in 
Journ, Linn. Soe. vol. iii. p. 22. 
Pachystoma Josephi, Reichd. fil. in Walp. Rep. vol. vi. p. 464. 
Cymbidium ixioides, Don Prodr. Fl. Nep. p. 36. 
A very graceful terrestrial Orchid, discovered by Dr. . 
Wallich in Nepal in 1821. It is not uncommon in the 
adjacent province of Sikkim, where it grows on mossy or 
grassy banks at an elevation of 6000 to 10,000 feet above 
the sea. Being gregarious in habit, it is a great ornament. 
Though in so far as at present known, it is confined to the 
Himalaya, it may prove to be a variety of the Khasian 
S. pubescens, Lindl., which extends eastwards into China 
(8. Fortunei, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1845, t. 19), and south- 
wards to Burma. It differs in the more numerous flowers, 
more pubescent sepals and saccate midlobe of the lip. 
Besides S. iaioides, there are seven Indian species of this 
genus, all well worthy of cultivation ; one indeed, A. Wrayt 
(nob. in Fl. Brit. Ind. ined.), a native of Perak in the 
Malayan Peninsula, is a magnificent plant, with a flowering 
stem a foot and a half high, and flower two and a half 
inches across, of a bright golden colour. It is found at 
elevations of 4000 to 5000 feet. 
The plants of S. ixioides figured were received from 
Mr. Gammie of Darjeeling in 1881, through Mr. Elwes, 
to both of which gentlemen Botany and Horticulture are 
June 1st, 1889. 
