OrniTHOcHILUS.] ORCHIDACES. 205 
Pseudostem short. Leaves 12-18 in. long, linear-oblong, obtuse, fleshy, 
obliquely notched at the apex, slightly expanded at the sheathing 
base. Inflorescence shorter than the leaves; peduncle 3-4 in. long, 
bearing several-tubular acute scarious sheaths near the base. Flowers 
yellowish-red, in many—flowered drooping racemes 9-15 in. long ; 
floral bracts ovate, 4-4 in. long; pedicels with ovary }-2in. #epals 
subequal, oblanceolate-oblong, obtuse ; lateral pair subfalcate. Petals 
as long as sepals, obtuse. Zip purplish, equalling the sepals, 3- 
lobed, its upper surface with two stout lamelle broken and discon- 
nected in the middle ; lateral lobes narrow, blunt, entire; midlobe 
ovate-oblong, decurved. Column slighty thickened at the apex. 
Anther subquadrate, papillose. Pollinia 2, small; gland crescent- 
shaped. . 
N. Oudh, in the Bahraich district (Duthie). Flowers during Apri 
and May. Disrris.: Nepal Terai and Trop. Himalaya eastwards 
to Sikkim and Assam ; also in W. and S. India, extending to Ceylon, 
Tenasserim, the Andaman Islands and Malay Peninsula. 
13. ORNITHOCHILUS, Wall.; Fl. Brit. Ind. vi, 76. 
Epiphytic, without pseudobulbs. Stem very short. Leaves 
few, crowded, broadly oblong, softly coriaceous. Inflorescence 
supra-axillary, racemose or in panicles. Sepals subequal, spread- 
ing, incurved at the apex, lateral ones obliquely obovate. Petals 
smaller, cuneate-oblong, blunt. Lip much longer than sepals, 
adnate to foot of the column by a long broad claw with a rectangu- 
larly bent subcylindric spur at its junction with the terminal lobe ; 
side-lobes shallow, subquadrate ; terminal with three lobules ; 
the two lateral recurved and pectinate ; the central one triangular, 
entire or infolded ; mouth of spur closed by two calli projecting 
from its back and front walls, the latter hairy. Column short, 
cylindric, with a short foot; rostellum short; stigma circular, 
surrounded by ahairyrim. Anther oblong ; pollinia 2, subglobose 
eaudicle broad, obcuneate ; gland large.—Species 1 or 2, Indian 
and Chinese. 
O. fusous, Wall. in Lindl. Gen. and Spec. Orch. 242; F. B. IJ. 
vi, 76; K. & P.in Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Calc., viii, 200, t. 268 ; Duthie 
id ix, part 2, 139. 
Leaves 3-7 in. long, oblong or ovate-lanceolate, obliquely tapering to 
the acute apex and narrowed to the sessile sheathing base, fleshy, 
