Tas. 7284. 
ARUNDINA BamBusaAEFOLIA. 
Native of the Himalaya. 
Nat. Ord. Oncuipra.—Tribe EprpEnpDRER. 
Genus Arunpina, Blume; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 521). 
Arvunpina bambusaefolia; caulibus czespitosis gracilibus, foliis linearibas 8-12 
poll. longis 3-1 poll. latis, racemo laxifloro, floribus roseis, sepalis oblongis 
acutis, petalis late obovatis acuminatis, labelli ampli lobis saturate roseis 
crispato-lobulatis lateralibus brevibus, terminali 2-fido lobis rotundatis, 
disco 3-lamellato, capsula 2-24 pollicari. 
A. bambusaefolia, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. n. 3751; Gen. & Sp. Orchid. p. 125 ; 
in Bot. Reg. 1841, Misc. p. 2; in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. iii. p. 22; Wight 
Ic. Pl. Ind, Or, t. 1661; Griffith, Notul. vol. iii. p. 329, 331; Ic. Pl. 
Asiat. t. 314; Williams, Orchid. Album, t. 1389; Veitch Man. Orchid. 
pt. vi. p. 77; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. v. p. 857. 
Cymbidium bambusaefolium, Roxb, Fl. Ind. vol. iii. p. 460. 
Bletia graminifolia, Don Prodr. Fl. Nep. p. 29. 
Limodorum graminifolium, Buch. Ham. mss. ex Don, |. ¢. 
I think that this is quite the most beautiful terrestrial 
orchid of Northern India, and I know of no more attractive 
picture of its kind, than a patch of grass land in the 
Khasia Hills, adorned with clumps of it in full flower. It 
is a very variable plant, and of wide distribution in India, 
extending from Nepal to the Khasia Hills and Chittagong, 
and it no doubt occurs in the Burmese Hills, though not 
as yet brought from thence. According to Wight, it is a 
native of Ceylon and Malabar, that author adding that his 
figure (t. 1661) was taken from a Ceylon specimen, but the 
identical specimen is contained in his Herbarium now at 
Kew, and is marked as from Assam (Grifith); and there 
is no evidence of its being a Malabar plant. It is, however, 
recorded as Javanese. There is indeed a closely allied 
Ceylon species, A. minor, Lindl., which is more nearly 
allied to the Chinese and Himalayan A. chinensis, but is a 
much smaller plant, with yellow on the petals and tube of 
the lip, and a much smaller capsule. A fourth species is 
A. densa, Lindl. (Bot. Reg. vol. xxviii. t. 88, A. densiflora, 
Marcu Isr, 1893, 
