Tab. 7385. 

 ORNITHOCHILUS fuscus. 



Native of the East Indies and China. 



Nat. Ord. OrchidejE — Tribe Vande.e. 

 Genus Ornithochilus, Wallich. ; (Benth. 8f Hook.f. Gen. PL vol. iii. p. 581.) 



Ornithochilus fuscus ; herba epiphytica acaulis, radicibus crassis, foliis paucis 

 elliptico-ofelongis acutis planiusculis coriaceis, pedunculo valido, racemo 

 simpliei v. parce ramoso elongato pendulo multifloro, bracteia parvis 

 acutis, floribus parvis longe pedicellatis, sepalis oblique oblongis obtusis 

 anreis rubro-striatis demum reflexis, petalis panllo minoribus concoloribus, 

 labello sepalis majore breviter unguiculato, hypochilo latiusculo patente 

 lobis lateralibus angustis rotundatis, disco carinato et lamina fimbriata 

 transversa orem calcaris claudente instructo, epichilo inflexo erecto rubro 

 marginibus interne incurvis superne in laminam reniformem recurvam 

 fimbriatam dilatato, calcare ovario remoto sepalis ffiquilongo incurvo 

 obtuso, columna brevi, rostello demum forcipato. 



O. fuscus, Wall, in Lindl. Gen. & Sj>. Orchid, p. 242. Hook.f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 

 vol. vi. p. 76. 



O. Eublepharum, Hance in Journ. Bot. vol. xxii. (1884), p. 364. 



iErides difforme, Wall, ex Lindl. L c. Lindl. Sert. Orchid, frontisp. fig. 7, et 

 in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. iii. p. 41. Walp. Ann. vol. vi. p. 889. Beichh.f. 

 in Gard. Chron. (1865), p. 698. 



A. Hystrix, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 1. c p. 42 (non Gen. & Sj>. Orchid.) 



A singular Orchid, the flowers of which, owing especially 

 to the complicated nature of the lip, are (as with many 

 other Orchids), most difficult to describe in intelligible, 

 and, at the same time, accurate language. It was first 

 made known by Wallich about sixty years ago as a native 

 of Nepal, and it has since been found in the Eastern 

 Himalaya and Khasia hills, at elevations of 4-5000 ft., in 

 Burma, and more recently in China. According to a series 

 of drawings made in India, and preserved at Kew, there is 

 much variation in the colour of the flower, from dull green 

 to orange-yellow, in the breadth of the sepals, and in the 

 lip, the'fimbriated midlobe (epichil) of which is more or less 

 3-lobulate, with the side lobes fimbriate, and the midlobe 

 either entire or fimbriate. The description in " Genera 

 Plantarum " and in the clavis of genera of Orchids in the 

 " Flora of British India " (vol. v. p. G72), both taken from 



November 1st, 1894. 



