212 Orchidece. [Aftactochilus. 



sep. distinct, dorsal forming a hood with the pet , lateral 

 oblong, spreading; pet. obovate or oblong; lip small, inserted 

 on the base of the column, as long as the lateral sep., entire, 

 base spurred, spur protruded beyond the bases of the sep., 

 disk naked; column very short, not appendaged in front, 

 rostellum at length bifid ; stigma anticous, tumid ; anth. dorsal, 

 ovate, long-acuminate, erect, 2-celled, pollinia 2, clavate, 

 granular, bipartite, attached to the rostellum by a small 

 gland. — Sp. about 20; 2 in Fl. B. Ind. 



P. Blumei, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. n. 7397 (1828). 

 Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 504; injourn. Linn. Soc. i. 181 ; Thw. Enum. 

 314. C. P. 598. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 94. Bl. Orchid. Archip. Ind. t. 27, f. 2. 



Stem 1-2 ft., as thick as a crow's quill, ascending from a 

 creeping sometimes branched rooting base, glabrous below; 

 1. scattered, 2-i-3 in. long, ovate or ovate-cordate, acute, 3-5- 

 veined ; petiole very short, sheath \ in., hyaline, inflated ; ped. 

 tall, slender, pubescent ; sheaths an in. long, finely acuminate ; 

 spike 2-5 in., glandular-pubescent or villous, laxly many-fld. ; 

 bracts \ in., equalling the curved glandular-pubescent ov. ; 

 sep. \ in., pubescent i -veined ; pqt. obovate-oblong; lip saccate, 

 with a retuse glabrous flabelliform limb, sac much shorter than 

 the ov., and 2-lobed. 



Moist region, 1-3000 ft.; rather rare. Hantane; Peradeniya. Fl. 

 Jan.-March ; orange-pink, the Umb of the lip white. 

 Also in Sylhet and Java. 



46. a>th:ctockzi.us, bi. 



Terrestrial leafy herbs ; stem creeping below ; roots 

 fibrous; 1. petioled, membranous, ovate; fl. small, in a 

 glandular-pubescent terminal spike; sep. free, dorsal forming 

 a hood with the pet., lateral spreading; pet. falcate; lip 

 attached to the base of the column, longer than the lat. sep., 

 clawed, terminal lobe 2-winged, claw fimbriate, spurred at the 

 base, spur protruded beyond the base of the lateral sep., 

 cavity with 2 calli; column short, with 2 parallel lamellae in 

 front, rostellum short, at length 2-fid. or 2-toothed, stigmatic 

 lobes lateral; anth. dorsal on the column, 2-celled, pollinia 2, 

 clavate or pyriform, lamellate, narrowed into a single caudiclc, 

 which is attached by a gland to the rostellum. — Sp. about 10; 

 7 in Fl. B. Ind. 



