148 OrckidecE. [Upans. 



ped. slender, with the terete many and dense-fld. raceme 

 6-10 in.; bracts small, lanceolate, acuminate, shorter than the 

 pedicel and ovary, a few lower empty; fl. small, about \ in. 

 broad; sep. lanceolate, acute or obtuse, i -veined, at length 

 revolute, lateral spreading ; pet. shorter, narrowly linear, 

 margins recurved; lip much shorter than the sep., broadly 

 ovate, deflexed from the middle, subacute or apiculate, 

 margins at the base thickened and flesh}', calli o; column 

 incurved, wings small, rounded. 



Moist low country to 3000 ft. ; rather common. Fl. Oct.-Dec. ; 

 greenish-white. 



S. India, E. Bengal, Burma, Malaya, Pacific Is., China. 



11. Ii. vlrldiflora, Lindl. Gejt. and Sp. Orch. 31 (1830). 

 Thw. Enum. 295. Ridl. 1. c. xxii. 289. C. P. 3178. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 704. Wight, Ic. t. 1735 (^- elliptica). Ann. Bot. Gard. 

 Calcutt. viii. t. 47. 



Pseudobulbs about i in., ovoid or oblong, compressed, 

 naked; 1. 2, jointed on the pseudobulb, sessile or petioled, 

 f-i in., oval or oblanceolate, acute, thin, many-veined; ped. 

 with the long curved or pendulous raceme 4-6 in., with 

 scattered filiform-membranous bracts below the many-fld., 

 elongate raceme; fl. \ in., subsecund, erect or ascending from 

 the at length decurved pedicels ; bracts shorter than the 

 pedicels ; sep. broadly oblong-lanceolate, flat, acute or sub- 

 obtuse, I -veined, spreading; pet. narrowly linear, acute; lip 

 I -veined, orbicular-ovate, subacute, deflexed from the base, 

 very obscurely 3-lobed, concave, rather fleshy, margins 

 crisped, calli o; column incurved, not winged; fr. \ in., 

 pyriform, pedicel shorter, spreading. 



Montane zone, 3-6000 ft.; rather common. Ambagamuwa; Ramboda; 

 Hantane. Fl. Nov., Dec; green. 

 Himalaya and Nilgiri Mts., Java. 



12. Zi. dlsticha, Litidl. vt Bot. Re^;. sub t. 882 (1825). 



L. gregaria, Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 2)3 ; Thw. Enum. 296. Ridl. 

 1. c. xxii. 292. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 706. Thouars, Orch. Ins. Afr. t. 89 {Malaxis disticha). 



Rootstock long, rather slender, creeping and rooting; 

 pseudobulbs terminal, \-\ in., pyriform, compressed, clothed 

 with papery sheaths ; 1. solitary, erect, 4-6 in., linear, acute, 

 coriaceous; ped. with raceme 6-12 in., stout, 2-winged, naked; 

 bracts distichous, imbricate, equitant, ovate, acuminate, keeled, 

 very coriaceous, rhachis of raceme flattened ; fl. about \ in., 

 long, few expanding at a time, spreading or deflexed; sep. 

 ovate-oblong, acute, 3-veined, rcflcxcd ; pet. lincar-spathulate, 

 obtuse; lip fleshy, tongue-shaped, acute, twice rcflcxcd at 



