ACANTHEPHIPPIUM. 



ORCHIDES. 461 



Petalis oblongis acutis sepalisque apice revolulis , labeJIi lobis late- 

 ralibus rolundalis, inlermedio aculo carnoso utrinque plicalo, disci callo 

 solitario elevato longiludinali. 



Mr. Bateman received it as a Nepal plant from Her Majesty's Bot. Gard. at Kew. 

 Very inferior in appearance to Acanth. bicolor, baving pale ,,french white" flowers 

 with dull longitudinal stripes and not a single stain of brilliant colour. Flowers are 

 smaller than in ihe species just mentioned and iheir iower sepals are so much con- 

 tracted into a pouch at the bend of ihe column foot, as aimosl to form a spur; tbe 

 labellum has iong rounded side lobes, a small contracted, lawny, spolled, acute middle 

 lobe, and a single elevated callosity running down its middle. Mr. Baleman adds, 

 that it has larger, narrower, and more atlenuated pseudobulbs. a three flowered scape 

 and leaves like those af A. bicolor. I take this opporlunity of slaling , that ihe 

 genus of Ac. does not belong to Vandeae, as I formerly supposed, from ihe exami- 

 nalion of imperfect specimens, but in reality should be stalioned in Epidendreae, 

 where ii represent, the Maxillaria of Vandeae, and the Dendrobium of Malaxeae an 

 inieresiing fact with reference to systematical purposes. It should be placed near 

 Bleiia and Phajus. 



3. ACANTHEPHIPPIUM BICOLOR Lindl. B. Reg. XX. 1835. 1730: 



Petalis oblongo-Ianceolatis acutiusculis, labelli lobis lateralibus ro- 

 tundatis, perianthio ovato. — Planta terrestris, pseudobulbis oblongo- 

 ovalis , corrugatis, atro viridibus , reliquiis foliorum vestitis , paulo in 

 collum anguslatis. Folia 2—3, oblongo lanceolata, utrinque acuta, pli- 

 cata, erecta, basi angustata, sed petiolo nullo. Pedunculus radicalis; 

 squamis ovatis, concavis, brunneis, magnis, vaginatis, 2 — 4florus. Peri- 

 anlhium carnosum, sepala obtusa , lateralia basi obliqua, basi longe 

 productae columnae inserta. Petala aequilonga, apice minus macu- 

 lata, lineari-oblonga acuta. Labellum cum pede longo columnaeunguem 

 efficiente articulalum, inflexum complicatum , trilobum, lobis lateralibus 

 rotundatis , intermedio magis luteo et carnoso , asperiusculo; lamellis 

 disci tantum concavis, linea elevata sejunctis. Columna semiteres, 

 acuta; stigmate marginato, clinandrio immarginato proclivi. Pollinia 8, 

 geminata in glandulam antice emarginatam sessilia. 



Ceylon, found by Watson, ihe Superintentend of the Government Garden of Peradenia. 

 Obs. Adest quaedam paraphrasis , quae certe nec inter diagnoses , nec inter de- 

 scriptiones habebiiur : 



ACANTHEPHIPPIUM PARVIFLORUM Hassk. H. Bog. 43; 



Perigonio mediocri pallesccnte, hmbo lurido-sanguineo, labello fla- 

 vescenle. 



1389/2. CBYPTOCHIIilJlS Wall. 

 Tent. 36. 



1. CRYPTOCHILUS SANGUINEA Wall. I. c. t. 36: Lindl. Bot. Reg. XXIV. 1838. Misc.23. 

 Omnia = LO. 193 praeler • 



Pollinia 8, paribus 4 materiei pulvereae adhaerentia. 



Wollichs collccior sent it from the lacher mouniains on thc fronticr of Sylheii. 

 1837. Loddig. When this genus was placed in the genera and species of Orch. 

 planls, I had only examined a young dricd bud, and I had bcen Icd to suppose it a 

 meraber of ihe seclion called Vandeae, but ihe recent plant shows tbat it in fact 

 belongs to Epidendreae. and ihal it most be |)laccd along wilh Acanlhophippium in 

 Ibe neighbourhood of Phajus and Blelia. 



Perigonium scarlatinum, raargine violaccum. 



