josephia?[ OrchidecB. i8i 



Wall., and it is assumed that its author was mistaken in giving Ceylon 

 (Macrae) as its locality. But, notwithstanding a few discrepancies in the 

 description, I think our common plant is really intended. I have seen 

 no good published figure ; it should, perhaps, be kept distinct from 

 C. ensi'foliujH as a species. — Trimen. 



There are two drawings of this plant in Herb. Peraden., one (PLATE 

 XC. of this work) with oblong obtuse pale sep. and pet., with fine pink 

 interrupted veins, lip white, spotted with blood red, mid lobe orbicular, 

 and 4 small nearly globose pollinia, one of each pair much smaller than 

 the other. The other drawing has ovate-lanceolate subacute pale straw- 

 coloured sep. and pet., with 5 short red veins at the base of each, a 

 straw-coloured lip, with red spots, and ovate mid lobe ; the pollinia 

 are 4, large, ovoid, and all equal. It is marked, in Thwaites's writing, 

 'C. hcEmaiodes, Lindl. C. P. 3694.' — J. D. H. 



C. aloefoliujn, Sw. This is given for Jaffna (Gardner) in Thw. Enum. 

 308, and the specimens (C. P. 754), which are not very good, have the 

 flowers smaller and with rather broader sep. and pet., thus agreeing with 

 Roxburgh's figure of C. pe7idulum (Cor. PI. i. t. 44). Further examination 

 of living specimens of this is necessary before deciding whether the plant 

 is distinct from C. bicolor. Rolfe (in Herb. Kew) considers it to be true 

 C. aloefoliuttt. A specimen from Rottler (in Herb. Kew), without locality, 

 is ticketed by him '' E. peftduluin, scapo-erecto.' The plant of Wight 

 (Ic. t. 1687-8), from the Nilgiri Hills, has finely acuminate sep. and pet. 

 —J. D. H. 



23. JOSEPKIA,-^ Wight. 

 Epiphytes ; stem very short, tufted, hardy, pseudobulbous, 

 base clothed with reticulate membranous sheaths, roots vermi- 

 form ; 1. solitary, petioled,coriaceous,linear-oval or oblong; ped. 

 much longer than the leaves, slender, paniculately branched, 

 branches subsecund, with many small appressed coriaceous 

 persistent empty bracts; fl. terminal or subterminal on the 

 branches, bracts subulate, persistent, shorter than the pedicels; 

 fl. rather small ; sep. connivent, subequal, oblong, obtuse, con- 

 cave, base subsaccate; pet. as long as the sep., oblong, obtuse; 

 lip inserted on the base of the column, as long as the sep., 

 base recurved, concave, side lobes short, rounded, incurved, 

 mid lobe small, rounded, disk with a transverse membrane 

 between the side lobes and mid lobe; column nearly as long 

 as the Sep., broad above, erect; anth. 2-celled, pollinia 4, 

 narrowly pyriform, waxy, all attached by a short caudicle to 

 a broad gland. — Sp. 2; both in FL B. Ind. 



The following references of the two Ceylon species of Josephia, 

 J. lanceolata and latifolia of Wight, involve a partial transposition of 



* Named in honour of Dr. (now Sir) Joseph Dalton Hooker, Director 

 of Kew Gardens, 1865-85, and author of the ' Fl. Brit. India,' and many 

 other standard books on botany. — Trimen. 



