lONE. 



ORCHIDES. 637 



Wild in liie Kiinsia Ijiils. 5—7000 feet — Hool<er and Tljonison ; on irees at Nung- 

 bree, Ciiurra, Myrung. Amwee — Grifliih, 1219. (v. s. sp.) 



6. lONE BICOLOR Lindl. 



I. foliis lineari-oblongis emarginatis scapis filiformibus duplo lon- 

 gioribus, spica flexuosa, bracleis laxis floribus brevioribus, sepalis late- 

 ralibus semi-connalis, petalis rotundatis serrulalis , labello panduri- 

 formi serrulato in apicem crassum teretem produclo. 

 Sunipia bicolor LO. n. 2. Sert. Orch. froniisp. fi». 5. 

 A smalier plant. than ihe last. Scape.< very short-siallied , not half the length of 

 tlie leave.s. Sepais white . acuminate , with three purple veins at the base. Petals 

 whiie. Lip dark purple , with the point protruding in the form of a dagger-blade ; 

 in ihe Sikkim plant shorter ihan'in that from Darjeeling. 



VVild in Nepal — Wallich ; Sikkim — Hiraalaya at 4 — 6000 feet — J. D. Hooker ; 

 Darjeeling — Griffith (v, s. spO 



Obs. En descriptio ex Serto : Small patches of o\ate pseudobulbs about as large as 

 rnarbles, each of which is lerminaipd by a narrow oval slightly stalked obtuse leaf. 

 3". Racemes are erect, ralher longer than the leaves. originate from the base of 

 the pseudobulbs; they bear about 9 small ringent llowers. arranged upon a Hexuose, 

 slender rhSchis, each of which is sustended by a lunceolate. colourless bract, larger 

 than the short ol>ovale ovary. The sepals are while, slighily strenked with purple, 

 ovale-lanceolate ; 2 laleral ones being narrower and rather larger ihan ihe oihers, 

 placed parallel wiih each other below the lip. and slighily adhering by their margins. 

 Petals white, ovate. bluntish . ralher more ihan twice as short as ihe sepals . with a 

 faint purple sireak at their base. Labellum deep purple, articulated with a very 

 short foot of the column. Its general oulline is cuneate ; in the middle it is flat 

 and fiesliy and iraverscd by a sunke(?) line, at ihe margin it is foveaied, at the apex 

 rounded and emarginate ; just above the base ibere is On each side a small erect 

 auricle. All these things are described from the Indian dravring, 



7. lONE CA.NDIDA Lindl. 



I. foliis lineari-oblongis emarginatis scapis filiformibus aequalibus, 

 spica subflexuosa, bracteis floribus brevioribus, sepalis omnibus liberis, 

 petalis ovatis acutis ciiiato-fimbriatis, labello ovato basi fimbriato versus 

 apicem serrulato in apicem longum crassum producto. 



Flowers pure white. 



Wild on the Khasia Mouniains, at 5 — 6000 feet — J. D. Ilooker and R. Thomson. 



1438V. POIiYSTACHYA Hook. 



Exot. FI. 103. (LO. p. 72. sub Malaxideis. hinc Endl. 1366). — Epiphora Lindl. 



1. POLYSTACIIYA GALEATA Rchb. fll. Mss. Dendrobium galeatum Sw.I Dolbo- 

 phyllum galeatum L. 0. 57. IIuc : Pohjslachya grandiflora Lindl. in B. Mag. 3707: 



Pseudobulbis parvis monophyllis, folio lineari-oblongo carnoso , pe- 

 dunculo terminali subunifloro, flore recto (non resupinato), sepalis mu- 

 cronatis ; lateralibus quadruplo majoribus, petalis minutis oblongo-spa- 

 Ihulatis, labello carnoso trilobo, lobo inlermedio cordato acuto. 



Labellura viridi-album, perigonium viride, rubro maculatum. — Sierra Leone. 



2. POLYSTACIIYA REFLEXA Lindl. Bot, Reg. XXVII. (1841.) Misc.43: 

 Pseudobulbis conicis subcompressis anuulatis, foliis — , scapo sub- 



clavato apice racemoso , sepalis expansis sub apice emarginalo mucro- 

 nalis laleralibus maximis, labcllo panduralo mcdio crenuialo genuflexo 

 pulvinato apice dilatalo membranaceo. 



