172 BURMA, ITS PEOPLE A.XD PRODUCTIOXS. 



striated, ovcrlappinf!: alternately at the base. Scape short, erect, about S-flowcrecl. 

 Flowers large, handsome, ivory white. Sepals and petals ovate, pointed, nearly 

 equal. Lip 3-lobed, very broad ; side lobes erect, rather square ; middle lobe broad, 

 square retiise, wavy at the edge ; all three beautifully streaked with Koman-red, 

 blight golden in the centre. Deliciously fragrant. A lovely plant, but too near to 

 '^^ C. ebunu'um. Shan border, 1859. On trees. 



Thecostele, Bchh.fil. 



Sepals and petals spreading, free, the former ovate, the latter narrow linear 

 Lip continuous with the base of the column, 3-lobed. Column long, terete, incurved 

 two-horned at the top. Anther 2-celled. Pollen-masses 2, deeply notched behind, 

 attached by 2 thin elastic stipites to a broad rounded gland. Pseudo-bulbous. 

 Leaf single, terminating the bulb. Scape many-flowered, radical. Species 1. 



T. ALATA. 



This is Ci/ mild ill III alaium of Roxburgh. Bulbs aggregate, ovate, somewhat 

 flattened, ribbed, each one terminated by a broadly ovate solitaiy leaf, which is 5 

 inches by 2. The bulbs are yellowish, the leaves dark green. Scape drooping, 

 6-7 inches long, scaly towards the base. Ploweis numerous, f inch across, sjiotted 

 with red on a yellowish ground. Lip with 2 small rounded lateral lobes, and an 

 elongated obovate middle lobe, which is hairy in the middle and refuse, i.e. it has 

 the centre of a rounded end depressed, colour red, with pale yellow margin. The 

 column is of a remarkable shape, retreating at the base, then arched forwards like a 

 swan's neck, and has 2 hom-like appendages at the end. On trees in the neighbour- 

 hood of Maulmain. Floweiing in the rainy season. 



BEOiinEABiA, Lindl. 



I have no description of this genus, founded, it would seem, originally on one 

 single species, li. pa/iistris, a Straits plant, which I only know from "Wight's figure. 

 I must, therefore, confine myself to a short description of the second species which it 

 ■was my good fortune to discover. 



B. APOEOIDES. 



A small plant, 2-3 inches high, with distichous (2-ranked), rigid, hard, sharp- 

 pointed, scimitar-shaped leaves, having very much the appearance of an Aporiim, for 

 which, in the absence of flowers, it might be taken. Flower, in my plant, terminal 

 on a short scaly stalk, large for the size of the plant, 1 inch long. Sepals and 

 petals linear-lanceolate, nearly equal, connivent. Lip parallel with the column, 

 which is that of a Cahgijne, long, curved, winged and projected beyond the anther. 

 Pollen-masses two, like those of C'ljmhidium, sessile, on a large triangular gland. 

 The colour of the flower is white, the lip excepted, which is 3-lobed ; side lobes 

 streaked with pink, pointed, almost as long as the small triangular middle lobe, which 

 has a yellow crest. Flowering time April. No two plants can be more unlike in 

 vegetative character than this and B. palmti-is. 



LuisiA, Gaudich. 

 Plants with elongated woody stems, long aerial roots, terete (rounded, quill- 

 shaped) leaves, and small and, mostly, inconspicuous flowers. Pollen-masses 2, 

 notched behind, united by a broad stipes to a triangular gland. Species 5. 



COTTONIA, E. W. 



Caulescent. Leaves distichous. Flowers in axillary or leaf-opposed racemes. 

 Pollen-masses 2. Yaudcous. 



C. Champioxi. 



A small plant, with fleshy, ovate, pointed leaves, and a few flowers, 5 or 6, on a 

 rigid leaf-opposed stalk, 4 or 5 inches long. Sepals and petals ovate, broad, nearly 

 equal, spreading. Column short. Lip 3-lobed, connate with the base of the column, 

 lateral lobes quadrate, rounded, middle lobe projecting at right angles with them and 



