Tab. 6344. 



IONE PALEACEA. 



Native of Upper Assam. 



Nat. Ord- Orchiuea;. — Tribe Vande*. 

 Genus Ione, Lindl. (Lindl. Foil, Orchid. lone). 



Io.ne paleaceu ; rbizoniate repente, pseudobulbis ovoideis l*vibus viridibus, folio 

 6-8-pollicari lineari obtuso carinato enervi basi angustata canaliculate, 

 BCapo gracili folio longiore. spica elongata substricta multiflora, bracteis 

 pollicaribus erectis lanceolatis acuminatis concavis, fioribus nutantibus 

 pollicaribus, sepalo postico lanceolato foriricato pallide viridi purpureo-veuoso. 

 lateralibus in laminam sequilongam apice 2-dentatam labello Bnppositara 

 connatis, petalis parvulis ovato-rotundatis erosis pallide viridibus. labello 

 brevissime unguiculato trullifonni marginibus erosis disco basi bicarinato, 

 carinis secus laminam productis et in apicem labelli tumescentem oblougain 

 obtusam desinentibus, columna apice bi-aristata. 



I. paleacea, Lindl. Fol. Orchid. lone, p. 2. : Beiokb. /'. in Waip. Ann. vi. 636. 



Dipodium, Griffith. Po.sth. Paper* ; Notulce, part iii. p. lOfi ; lc. Plant. Asiut. 

 t. 327./. 1. 



There is some uncertainty as to the native country of this 

 plant, of which the only authentic specimen known to me 

 is Griffith's, preserved in the Dr. Lindley's Herbarium to which 

 the latter botanist has put a ticket with "Darjeeling, Wm. 

 Griffith, 1844,' ; upon it. But Dr. Lindley has attached to this 

 specimen the note, " Dipodium, Griffith Notulse, t. oocxxvii. 

 fig. 1." Now Griffith never was at Darjeeiing, though 

 he employed collectors there, and on referring to his Notulse, 

 I find that he gives as the habitat " from trees on 

 Thumathaya in the Mishmi Mountains ; " and these are in 

 Upper Assam. Considering further, that Griffith's drawing 

 was made from a living plant, and that no other botanist has 

 found the plant at Darjeeling or elsewhere in Sikkim, I think, 

 there can be no doubt that the Mishmi Mountains are its native 

 country. With regard to the description in Griffith's 



FEBRUARY 1ST, 1878. 



