Tcsniophyllum!\ OrchideCB. 203 



2-auricled, with interposed calli, side lobes indistinct, mid lobe 

 rounded, retuse, margins villous, disk with a tooth-like callus; 

 column very short, foot o; anth. depressed hemispheric, with 

 a truncate beak, 2-celled, pollinia 2, waxy, pyriform, 2-cleft, 

 or 4, 2 smaller incumbent on the larger, strap long, gland 

 small. — Sp. 2 ; both in Fl. B. Ind. 



C. znacrostachya, Wight ^ Ic. v. i, 21 (185 1). 



Vanda peduncularis^ Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 216. C. peduncularis, 

 Thw. Enum. 303. C. P. 2361. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 26. Wight, Ic. t. 1755. Bot. Mag. t. 7099 (from Ceylon 

 plant). 



Stem 4-8 in., nearly as thick as the little finger, woody, 

 clothed with short appressed dark green leaf-sheaths ; 1. 5-8 

 by ^-| in., spreading, strict or recurved, abruptly ending in 

 two lobes, one longer and more rounded than the other, with 

 a broad acute sinus between them, keeled beneath, dull green, 

 sometimes obscurely mottled; ped. 1-3 ft, stout, green, 

 mottled with red, simple or branched, the branches forming 

 terminal racemes; bracts very short, ovate, persistent, pedicel 

 with ov. i-i^ in.; sep. ~ in. long; lip I in. long; fr. 2^ in., 

 narrowly fusiform, acutely angled. 



Moist region to 3000 ft. ; rather rare. Hanlane ; Peradeniya, wild 

 in the gardens. Fl. March, April ; sep. and pet. pale yellowish-green, 

 veined with pink, lip dark purple, with a pale green central line and 

 margins. The colouring of the Bot. Mag. plate does not represent the 

 ordinary condition of the plant in Ceylon. 



Also in S.W. India. 



The only Ceylon epiphytic orchid with flowers which resemble an 

 insect ; these look like a large fly, beetle, or bee. 



37. TJS:NZOFKirX.Z.UBI, Bl. 



Small stemless epiphytes, leafless (?) after flg., pseudobulbs 

 o; roots flattened; 1. 2 or 3, linear, fleshy, veinless; ped. 

 radical, filiform; fl. very minute, spicate; sep., pet, and lip 

 connate in a 6-toothed perianth ; lip cymbiform, margins free, 

 fleshy, base produced into a saccate spur; column short, 

 broad, foot o; anth. quadrate, sub 4-celled, pollinia 4, in super- 

 posed pairs, pyriform, waxy, sessile on the gland. — Sp. 7 ; 

 I'mFl. B. Ind. 



T. Alwlsli, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 42 (1859). 



Thw. Enum. 305. C. P. 3195. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 76. Rchb. f , Xen. Orchid, t. 1 16, f i. 



A very minute epiphyte, apparently leafless after the first 

 growth; roots green, fleshy, tortuous; 1. 2-3, spreading and 



