164 BURMA, ITS PEOPLE AXD PRODUCTIOXS. 



umlcvelopcd pseudo-bulb, each about 2 inches long, of a general tawny-yellow colour. 

 The lip dark chocolate brown. A handsome Orcliid. 



C. Paeishii. 



Pseudo-bulbs on a creeping root-stock, 5-7 inches long, cylindrical, smooth, sur- 

 mounted by two oblong-lanceolate plicate leaves. Peduncle of about 5 flowers in 

 their axil, 6-7 inches high. Flowers large, green, lip crested and marked with 

 black streaks and spots. More curious than beautiful. In this species the flowers 

 terminate the fully-matured pseudo-bulbs. 



SrxiriA, Iliicli. 

 A genus of two species only (as far as is at present known), one of which is 

 found in Burma, Sitiiipia scnrioxa. Its description may suffice here for that of the 

 genus. A plant in habit like a Bulbophijlhiin, with a creeping rhizome of the 

 thickness of a goose quill, hearing upon it, at regular distances of 2 or 3 inches, 

 ovoid pseudo-bulbs about 1 inch long, tapering upwards, each terminating in a single 

 linear leaf, 6 inches by f , leathery. Inflorescence a spike on a long slender peduncle, 

 erect for about 10 inches, with stem-clasping scales at intervals, thence drooping 

 for another 6 or 7 inches. Flowers very small, sessile, alternating on a zigzag 

 rachis, each concealed by a glumaceous bract. Sepals ovate obtuse, the two lower 

 uniting to form a keel. Petals much smaller and nearly round. Lip articulated 

 with the column, 3-lobed, side lobes rouniled, middle lobe elongated, blunt, solid, 

 hollowed out at the base. Pollen-masses 4, collateral, nearly round, attached by 

 pairs to two short blunt fleshy caudicles. The colour of the flower is white, tinged 

 ■with rose at the base. Lip pale yellow. Lindley places it among Vandete, and speaks 

 of a gland, but I can find no trace of one. 4-o000 feet among the mountains. 



AGROsiopnTiLrii, Bl. 



Like the last, this is a small genus consisting of 2 or 3 species. Our Burmese 

 representative is A. p!tiiiicai(k, a plant with fleshy flattened stem about 5 inches 

 long, y inch broad by i, bearing a leaf {possibli/ 2 leaves) at the top. Leaf oblong, 

 6 inches by 1. Flowers in a small dense head at the base of the leaf, interspersid 

 with brown bracts. The pollen-masses are 8 — those of an Eria, though Lindley 

 places the plant among Vanile/e. The plant grows in a tufted manner— several stems 

 near together. This is the meanest Orchid and the most ivetd y-ltdoking that I know. 

 Species 1. 



SrATnoGLOTirs, BL 



"Terrestrial plants with subterranean corms" (rhizomes underground, Bentham 

 in Flora of IIiiii(i-Kuii<i, p. 3 J5), "and ssvord-shaped plicate leaves. Sepals spreading, 

 free, equal. Petals rather broader. Lip articulate at the base of the column, not 

 spurred but concave or saccate, 3-lobed, middle lobe contracted into a claw, and 

 crested or tuborculated. Column winged or petal-like. Pollen-masses 8, waxy. 

 Scapes radical, leafless." Species 3. 



The foiegoing generic description is simply copied from Lindley and Bentham. 

 This is done because the first of the three species mentioned below (placed in this 

 genus by Rcichenbach) will be found to differ in some respects from it. 



S. Haedingiaxa. 



Pseudo-bulbs about the size and shape of a cob-mit, terminated by two lanceolate 

 pointed leaves much attenuated below, 6-7 inches long by ^ broad. The flowers 

 are borne in a loose raceme of some 8 or 10, on one, or occasionally two, slender 

 peduncles 9-10 inches high, with 2 or 3 sheathing scales nearly an inch long at 

 regular distances upon them, springing from the base of the pseudo-bulb. The stem 

 (peduncle) is covered with soft hairs and is red. Each flower, which is nearly an 

 inch across when fully expanded, has a slender stalk 1 inch long and a pointed bract 

 at its base. Sepals ovato-lanceolate pointed. Petals of the same lengtli and 

 appearance, but tiDirh narrower, all thrown backwards when in full flower. Lip long 

 and narrow, awl-sliapcd, very acute, from a broad rounded base with a centarl 



