AcantJiophippiiim^ OrcJl:d C€. 163 



vein thickened at the base; cohimn orbicular when spread 

 out; fr. I in., globose or ellipsoid, strongly ribbed, fruiting 

 rhachis thickened. 



Moist region up to 3000 ft.; common. Fl. Aug.; white, with a pinkish 

 or yellowish tinge, bracts brown. 



Also in the hilly districts of India, Burma, Andaman Is. 



10. CKRVSOGZ.OSSUBI, Rl. 



Terrestrial herbs, with a creeping rootstock and erect 

 stem, pseudobulbous at the base, i -leaved, terminating in a 

 lax-fld. raceme; 1. petioled, oval, membranous, plaited; fl. 

 rather small ; sep. subequal or dorsal narrowest, lateral con- 

 nate with the short foot of the column, forming with the lip 

 a short mentum; pet. broad or narrow; lip erect, 3-lobed,disk 

 lamellate; column incurved, foot short, margins auricled above 

 the middle ; anth. 2-celled, polHnia 2, pyriform, waxy, free. — 

 Sp. 7 ; 4 in Fl. B. Ind. 



C. maculatum, //A. f. in Fl. B. Ind. v. 784 (1890). 

 Ania inaculata, Thw. Enum. 301. C. P. 31515. 

 Fl. B, Ind. V. 784. Hook. Ic. Plant, t. 2064. 



Rootstock stout, creeping, with thick vermiform roots; 

 stem a foot high, narrowly pseudobulbous at the base, as 

 thick as a crow-quill above, bearing a few distant tubular 

 sheaths with obliquely truncate mouths; 1. 10 by 3^ in., shortly 

 petioled, oval, acute, /-veined, quite glabrous; raceme 6 in. 

 long, lax-fld.; bracts lanceolate, shorter than the slender 

 pedicels; fl. nearly i in. diam.; sep. erect, obtuse, dorsal 

 oblong, lateral larger, spreading and recurved, narrowly 

 oblong, falcate; mentum short, conical, obtuse; pet. as broad 

 as the sep. ; lip shorter than the sep., base auricled, side lobes 

 small, oblong, obtuse, mid lobe much longer, orbicular, concave, 

 disk with 3 lamellae; auricles of column triangular, obtuse; 

 anth. small; fr. i^ in., oblong-clavate, pendulous from a stout 

 pedicel, strongly ribbed. 



Montane zone 4-15000 ft.; rare. Haputale; Kotiyagala; Dickoya. 

 Fl. March, April; pale green, with ro>vs of small purplish or reddish 

 blotches; lip white, with purple spots within, spur vellow (Thwaiies). 



Endemic. Inadvertently twice described in Fl. B. Ind. v. 784 ; once 

 as Tainia macidata^ a name that shou'd be deleted, as also the two last 

 errata on p. 910. 



II. ACANTHOP»XPPIU»I, Bl. 



Terrestrial; stem very short, base pseudobulbous; 1. few, 

 petioled, plaited; scape short, stout, radical; fl. few, in a short 

 lateral raceme, large, fleshy, pedicels thickened after flg. ; sep. 



