Taima.'] OrchidecB. 1 69 



tip rounded; pet. linear-oblong', faintly i -veined; lip, im- 

 mersed in the mentum, inserted on the top of the very long 

 foot of the column, within the margins of the connate lat. 

 Sep.; anth. didymous (?), pollinia microscopic. 



Damp low country below 2000 ft. ; rather rare. Ambagamuwa 

 (Thwaites) ; Kotmalie (Braine) ; Karawita Kande, near Ratnapura. Fl. 

 Feb., March ; bright orange-salmon-coloured. 



Endemic. 



This curious plant, which was included in E^ia by Bentham in Gen. 

 Plant., and by myself in Fl. B. Ind., differs remarkably from that genus 

 in habit, in the connate bases of the sep., and in the very minute column, 

 with two projecting incurved arms in front. The flowers are very difficult 

 of analysis in dried specimens, and the drawing in the Peradeniya 

 collection is not altogether satisfactory. The anth. is there represented 

 as didymous. 



14. TAINIA, Bl. 



Terrestrial herbs, with a creeping rootstock, bearing a 

 I -leaved tuberous pseudobulb; 1. solitary, long-petioled, coria- 

 ceous; ped. from the base of the pseudobulb, tall, slender, 

 with few sheaths; fl. racemed; sep. narrow, spreading, lateral 

 falcate, adnate to the saccate base of the lip, and forming a 

 mentum with it; pet. linear, falcate, spreading; lip adnate to 

 the foot of the column, 3-lobed, disk lamellate; column 

 slender, incurved, base produced into a short foot; anth. 

 2-celled, crowned with 2 short horns or tubercles, pollinia 8, 

 waxy, united in fours by a granular viscus, subequal, globosely 

 pyriform. — Sp. about 20; 14 in Fl. B. Ind. 



T. bicornis, Trim. Syst. Cat. Ceyl. 88 (1885). 



Ania bicorjtis., Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1842, yj. Eria bicornis. Rchb. f. in 

 Walp. Ann. vi. 269. C. P. 3190. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 820. Wight, Ic. t. 914 {Ania latifolia). Bot. Reg. 

 1 844, t. 8. 



Pseudobulb fusiform or narrowly pyriform, \\-2\ in. long, 

 with stout vermiform roots; 1. 4-6 by 2-2;^ in., oblong or ovate- 

 oblong, acute or acuminate, many- veined, leathery, base acute ; 

 petiole 3-5 in,, slender, erect, naked; ped. with raceme 8-16 

 in., with a few distant spreading membranous bracts; raceme 

 erect, laxly many-fld.; fl. i-i| in, across, pedicel very short, 

 with the ov. \ in,; bracts small, lanceolate, spreading; dorsal 

 sep. linear-oblong, obtuse, erect, lateral narrowly linear-spathu- 

 late, obtuse, falcately decurved; mentum rounded; pet, like 

 the lateral sep. ; lip. much shorter than the sep., side lobes 

 erect, rounded, mid lobe short, broad, subquadrate, emarginate, 

 disk with three crests ; anth. shortly 2-horned. 



