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liculato apice parvo cochleari basi hemisphserico ventricoso juxta columnam 

 subitd in calcar conicum extenso. 

 Borneo, Lobb. 



Flowers small, inconspicuous, furnished with hairs having broad 

 depressed glands. 



36. P. Blumei, XAndL I. c. p. 504.. 

 Ceylon, Thwaites (598). 



Flowers pale brownish red, with the blade of the lip white. 



XIII. Ehomboda. 



Ovarium rectum. Sejpalum dor sale petalis agglutinatum, an- 

 ticum ; lateralia basi valde gibba. Labellum cucullatum, basi 

 ventricosum, 3-lobum, appendicibus 2 rhombeis intra scrotum 

 juxta basin. Columna brevis, alte cucullata, resupinata, rostello 

 obtuso, antice lineis 2 parallelis carnosis elevatis apice expan- 

 sis truncatis aucta. 



37. E. longifolia. 



Sikkim, unique, J. D. B. (335). 



A great caulescent plant. Leaves 6-8 inches long, standing 

 twice as high as the scape, which has a pair of close-pressed 

 sheaths. Spike 6 inches long, very slightly downy. Bracts acu- 

 minate, shorter than the rostrate ovary. Flowers apparently dull 

 brownish red, smooth. Sepals subulate at the points ; petals un- 

 equally falcate, firmly glued to the upper sepal. The column 

 resembles a resupinate membranous goblet, within which lies the 

 acuminate anther. In front of the column grows a pair of con- 

 tiguous fleshy ridges which suddenly project into a strong ledge 

 at the base of the stigma. 



This genus most nearly resembles BhampMdia, from which 

 however the very peculiar apparatus in front of the column and 

 the internal appendages of the lip distinguish it. The latter are 

 lozenge-shaped, flat, petaloid t and terminate two deep red simple 

 veins originating at the base of the column. They are extremely 

 like what occur in Dossinia lanceolata. 



XIV. Rhamphidia, Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orch. p. 494. Groodyerse §. 



38. B-. ovalifolia. (Goodyera ovalifolia, Wight, Ic. 1730.) 

 Sikkim, at 3000 feet, J. B. H. (337). 



Near B. {Goodyera) elongata, from which it is distinguished by 

 its lip, 3-lobed at the point, and its truly ovate oblong leaves. 

 Wight's figure is much exaggerated and inconsistent with itself. 



