and linear petals galiate: lip shorter than the super- 

 posed lateral sepals, 3-toothed at the point, furnished 

 within with a fimbriated appendage : ovary cylindri- 

 cal, pilose. Flowers appear white within the sepals, 

 exteriorly with a reddish tinge, leaves often tinged 

 with purple. 



Courtalluin, in dense forest, flowering August and 



September- 

 It appears to come near G. elongata, Lind., but he 



seems uncertain whether that really belongs to the 



genus. This I consider a true species. 



According to Mr. Griffith's character, there is only 

 one perfect stamen, "Anther parallel with the column, 

 dorsal, fleshy, prolonged into a long beak.'' In place 

 of one, I find three such anthers. Can it be that, 

 as compared with mine, his plants were to that ex- 

 tent deficient, or were the anterior anthers over- 

 looked in a hurried dissection. In either case it 

 is extraordinary, first, as it seems improbable that 

 two plants to all appearance so perfectly identical, 

 should differ so widely in so essential an organ ; and 

 secondly, it seems about equally improbable that 

 such an accurate observer as Griffith should commit 



1731. An^ctochilus setaceus (Blume), leaves ^^^^ ^" oversight. But considering the former ttie 



^ ' more improbable of the two, I may remark that this 



seems one of the most curious of Orchideous plants. 



coloured, ovate or oval acute, two-coloured: spike 

 straight, few-flowered, and, like the sepals, pubescent, 

 lip many-cleft, bristle like on the margins, rounded 

 at the base with a conical emarginate sack. Sepals 

 greenish-white, edged and tipped with red ; lip 

 white : leaves dark brown or even black, traversed 

 with netted golden-coloured veins. . 



Ceylon, abundant in shady woods about Kandy. 



I am indebted to Mrs. Colonel Walker for the 

 drawing, and with it the opportunity of making 

 known the genus to the readers of this work. 



EtJPHROBOscEs (Griffith). 



Gen. Char. Perianth posticous, connivent, fleshy. 

 Sepals linear, oblong, lateral ones keeled. Petals 

 narrow, lanceolate, (reflexed at the apex). Lip simple 

 entire, semi-convolute, continuous with the oblique 

 base of the column. Column vertical, attenuated 

 in front into a long two-legged rostellum (antice in 

 rostellum bicrue longum attenuatum), stigma vertical. 



It has 3 perfect stamens furnished with ceraceous 

 pollen and these attached to a caudicula and gland 

 like those of Vandeae. Lindley rejects Apostasia as 

 a genus of Orchideae ; this seems an equally anoma- 

 lous plant; can it also be similarly rejected so as in 

 that way to preserve the symmetry of the order? 

 Wot myself I think not. 



1732. EuPHROBOSCES piGM^A (Griffith). 



The specimens from which the plant was first 

 described were from Nepaul, and flowered in the 

 Botanic Garden at Calcutta. Those from which my 

 drawing was taken were gathered by Mr. Jerdon 

 on the Malabar Ghauts. 



1733. Mtcaranthes stricta (Lind), stem terete : 

 spike secund, dense, many-flowered: lip with ascro- 

 tiform callosity in the middle : perianth woolly, short, 

 margins of the column winged, introflexed : leaves 



Anther dorsal, beaked. PoUinia 8, waxy, globose ; 1 or 2 linear lanceolate,^sessile. 

 with a long caudicula and linear gland. 



Epiphytical caespitose plants, pseudo-bulbs turbi- 

 nate, the new ones 3-4-leaved : leaves fleshy, oblong, 

 emarginate: scape sub-clavate, erect: flowers spiked, 

 one-bracteate minute, greenish. Griffith, Calcutta 

 Journal of Nat. History, Vol. 5, 371-72. 



I have thought it advisable to give Griffith's char- 

 acter in full, as I find it does not correspond with 

 my dissections, though in other respects the plant 

 seems identical. The following are the notes I made 

 while examining this plants 



Perianth connivent, six-parted in 2 rows, exterior 

 series, sepals, larger, the anterior pair carinately 

 winged on the back ; interior series, petals, somewhat 

 smaller, sub-lanceolate, anterior one, lip, 3-nerved. 



The specimen figured was communicated by the 

 late excellent Mr. Griffith from Malacca. He also 

 furnished me with others from Mergui, Assam, and 



Khassia. 



1734. Phreatea uniflora (R. W.), repent, pseu- 

 do-bulbs globose, about 2-leaved: leaves obovate, 

 cuspidate : scape longer than the leaves, 1-flowered : 

 bract large, cordato-ovate, acuminate: lip lanceo- 

 late acuminate, 2-nerved. 



Khassia Hills and Chunassangi, Griffith. I only 

 know this genus from the specimen figured. 



1735. LiPARis ELLiPTicA (R. W.), pseudo-bulbs 

 oval, compressed, costate on one side, 2-edged, trun- 

 cated at the apex, 2-leaved : leaves elliptic, cuspi- 



Stamens 3, sessile, opposite the sepals, each contain- ^ate, nerved, sub-plicate, about half the length of 



ing 8 globose waxy poUinia, attached to a long 

 slender caudicula furnished with a linear gland. 

 Column very short (even with the base of the 

 petals and stamens) with a forked rostellum as long 

 as the anthers and to the apex of which, in course of 

 time, the glands of the caudicula become attached. 

 Ovary l-celled, placentiferous margins revolute, free 

 within the cell. 



Comparing this with the dissections, two discre- 

 pancies will be remarked. The stamen at No. 7, is 

 represented as double each half with a caudicula and 

 four pollinia, and secondly the detached pollen has 

 only 4 masses to the caudicula. In both respects 

 the drawing is wrong, as will be at once observed 

 on comparing fig. 7 with the anthers of figure G, 

 which are correctly shown l-celled, but dilated and 

 ventricose below to enclose the large pollinia. In 



other respects the drawing is conect. 



the scape : scape sub-erect, raceme many-flowered : 

 bracts ovate, subulate, about the length of the ovary : 

 sepals sub-equal, ovato-elliptic, cuspidate, petals nar- 

 row, linear, pointed: lip irregularly 3-lobed: lobes 

 undulated, pointed, the middle one larger. Flowers 

 greenish-yellow, approaching to straw-colour. 



On branches of trees about Coonoor, Neilgherries. 

 Flowering from August to October. 



This species seems very nearly allied to L. vxridi' 

 flora of Ceylon. The pseudo-bulbs are naked, fleshy, 

 costate on one side, two-edged — i. e. tapering off to- 

 wards each side. Fig. 10. of the plate is a trans- 

 verse section of the pseudo-bulbs. 



OXTSEPALA (R.W.). 



Gen. Char. Sepals equal, ovate, long subulato- 

 acuminate, sub-connate at the base. Petals narrow, 



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