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membranaceous gland. Bulbless caulescent epi- 

 phytes, leaves in two rows (distichous) narrow 

 emarginate : spike terminal, distichous, flexuose, 

 long peduncled, many-flowered, bracts tooth-like 

 very short, rigid. 



This character is copied from the commentaries 

 of Meisner's Genera Plantarum, page 289-90, which 

 had I not had the aid of Mr. Griffith's name would 



being a native of the Neilghenies the other of the 

 Pulney Mountains, while the only known species of 

 Blame's genus is from Java. 



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1742. JosEPHiA LANCEOLATA (R. W.), leaves 

 elliptico-lanceolate, acute at both ends : scapes a lit- 

 tle longer than the leaves, naked, panicled ; branches 

 of the panicle racemose: all the sepals sub-orbicular : 



have left me in doubt whether this was truly Lindley's ^f ernarginate. Flowers whitish, tinged with pur- 

 plant, nor can I feel quite certain, even with such P^^"P reddisti lilac, ^- at -i u - 

 ^ ' ^ - Branches of trees below Nedawuttim, Neilghernes, 



aid, that it is so, as I have not seen his own descrip- 

 tion which is published in the Botanical Register, not 

 in his genera and species. Like the preceding, the 

 plant is introduced for the sake of the genus, being 

 desirous of exhibiting figures of as many genera as 

 I can of this very difficult order. 



1740. BooMHEADiA pALUSTRis (Liudley), Gra- 

 matophyllum Finlaysonianum^ Lind. gen. and species 

 orchid. 



Malacca. Griffith. 



This, though the habit and general aspect of the 

 plant seems to agree, may not be the true B.palus- 

 tris as I find I have what appears another species 

 of the genus, but the specimens are too imperfect to 

 be determined with certainty. 



1741. Chiloschista usnioides (Lind,). 



Malabar, on branches of trees, flowering in April. 

 — Low herbaceous, hairy, leafless, epiphytes: roots 

 flattened, green, as if to supply the absence of leaves 

 by performing their functions. Spikes erect, flowers 

 whitish or somewhat cream-coloured. The lip of 

 this plant is curious and difficult to represent. I am 

 not sure that this is the species named, but I have 

 no means of satisfying myself on that point. 



The larger figure of the plate was taken from 

 dried specimens collected by myself, the smaller 

 from a drawing of Mrs. Jerdon, taken from a living 

 plant, gathered I think in Wynaud and on the North 

 Western slqpes of the Neilgherries. 



JoSEPHIA (R. W.). 



Gew. Char. Perianth globose, closed. Sepals 

 equal, ovate, sub-orbicular, lateral ones incumbent on 

 the lip. Petals obovate, oblong, obtuse, a little shorter 

 than the sepals. Lip connate with the base of the 

 column, fleshy, ventricose at the base, ecalcarate, 

 constricted in the middle; limb entire, sub-orbicular, 

 emarginate. Column erect, clavate, half round. An- 

 ther imperfectly 2-celled. PoUinia 4, parallel, ob- 

 long, clavate, sessile on the dilated shield-like gland. 



Epiphytic plants: leaves coriaceous, long petioled: 

 scapes erect, panicled, many-flowered: flowers con- 

 gested towards the ends of the branches, pedicelled 

 and furnished with a minute ovate, acute, persistent 

 bract. The flowers in this curious genus are an- 

 nually renewed on the old scapes.— This fact I learn 

 from Mr. Jerdon who has had it in cultivation for 

 three years. 



I have named this genus in honour of my esteemed 

 friend Dr. Joseph Dalton Hooker, author of the An- 

 tartic Flora and Rhododendrons of Sikkim ; now en- 

 gaged in investigating the ilora of the Sikkim and 

 Khassia portions of the Himalayan range where he 

 has already collected about 3000 species of plants, 

 and certainly one of the most rising Botanists of the 

 present time. The genus seems nearly allied to 

 Agrostophyllum, but appears distinct in habit, char- 



flowering August and September. 



1743 



aceous, 



JosEPHiA LATiFOLiA (R. W.), leavcs cori- 

 broad oval, very obtuse or round above, 

 tapering below into the longish sulcated petiol: scape 

 panicled, about twice the length of the leaves, scaly, 

 branches of the panicle short : flowers congested, sub- 

 capitate. 



Pulney Mountains, on branches of trees, flowering 

 August and September. 



The annalysis of this species is less complete than 

 the preceding, having been made long ago (about 

 14 years), at a time when I was very imperfectly 

 acquainted with this family. 



1744. -Brides CTJJWDRicuM(Lind.), leaves round, 

 somewhat cylindrical: racemes short, about two-flow- 

 ered, sepals ovate, obtuse : petals oblong, broader : 

 lip cucullate, funnel-shaped, lateral lobes oblong, ob- 

 tuse ; adnate to the middle, ovate, obtuse, fleshy, 

 middle one : spur straight, conical. Flowers white 

 or slightly tinged with red, lip reddish, middle lobe 

 yellow at the base. 



lyamally Hills, Coimbatore, on branches of trees, 

 flowering August and September. The flowers of 

 this species are handsome, but too few to entitle it 

 to be considered an ornamental plant. 



1745-46. Saccolabium guttatum (Lind.), leaves 



long, channeled, unequally truncate, broad: racemes 

 cylindrical, densely flowered, arched or pendulous : 

 sepals ovate, twice the breadth of the petals: lip 

 with a compressed truncated conical spur, pubescent 

 within, lamina lanceolate, inflexed, sub-costate on 

 the back, capsules oblong, hexagonal. — Lind. 



Paulghaut jungles, on branches of trees. Flower- 

 ing from June till October or longer. 



On comparing the character, here given, of the 

 lip with that shown in the magnified analyses a 

 striking discrepancy will be at once observed; the 

 lamina in Lindley's plant being " lanceolate inflex- 

 ed," in mine it is broad obcordate, cuniate, spread- 

 ing. For his plant he quotes Rheede's Hort. MaL 

 12 tab. 1. When naming my drawing, I referred 

 to that plate and, finding the two figures correspond, 

 was so unfortunate as to rest satisfied without com- 

 paring my plant with the character and thereby over- 

 looked that striking difference. 



It is now clear to me, that the plant seen and 

 described by Dr, Lindley is not Rheede's plant, and 

 that they are probably different species. On this sup- 

 position I propose to designate this plant S. Rheedii, 

 with the following character. 



Saccolabium Rheedh (R. W.), leaves linear, 

 channeled, denticulato-truncated or premorse at the 

 apex : racemes pendulous, densely many-flowered : 

 posterior sepal ovate, lateral ones unequsd sided, 

 about twice the breadth of the lanceolate acute 



acter, and Geographical distribution — the one species petals: spur saccate, compressed, conical, hairy on 



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