208 ORCHIDACEZ. | AERIDES. 
Anther depressed and with a long curved beak in front. Pollinia 
globular, caudicle filiform, gland narrow. Capsule up to 2 in. long 
subclavate, stoutly pedicelled. , 
Dehra Dun and Siwalik range, common on mango trees. Flowers 
during June and July. Duisrris.: Outer ranges of Himalaya from 
Kangra to Nepal and Sikkim, up to about 4,000 ft.; also found in 
Assam, Chota Nagpur and N. Bengal. 
2.4, odoratum, Lour. Fl. Cochin. 525; F. B. I. vi, 47; K. 
& P. Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Cale. viti, 212, t. 282; Duthie id. iz 
cart 2, 143 ; Prain Beng. Pl. 1020 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. wi, 701. AB. 
crnutum, Roxb.; Fl. Ind. wii, 272. 
Stem 4-12-in. long, very stout. Leaves 6-12 in. long and 1-1} in. wide 
oblong, flat, keeled, tapering slightly to the blunt unequally bilobed 
apex, not contracted at the sheathing base. Racemes supra-axillary, 
_deflexed, as long as or longer than the leaves, many-flowered ; ped- 
uncle short, stout, with short distant sheaths. Flowers about 1 in. 
long, white, spotted with pink, fragrant ; floral bract broad, sheathing, 
blunt, much shorter than the stalked ovary. Sepals unequal, obtuse, 
spreading, the dorsal one elliptic-ovate, the lateral pair larger. 
Petals oblong, falcate, shorter than sepals. Lip adnate to the short 
foot of column; side-lobes iarger than the incurved almost linear 
emarginate midlobe. Anther triangular, depressed, beaked. Peol- 
linia globose, caudicle linear, gland quadrate. Capsule about 1} in. 
long, fusiform. 
Dehra Dun (King, Gamble, Mackinnon); N. Oudh, in the Bahraich 
district (Duthie). Flowers during July and August. Duisrrtp. ; 
Trop. Himalaya in Garhwal and Kumaon and eastwards to Nepal and 
Sikkim ; also in E. Bengal, Chota Nagpur and the Circars ; extending 
to Tenasserim, Malaya and China. 
16. KHYNCHOSTYLIS, Blume; FI. Brit. Ind. vi, 32. 
Epiphytes, without pseudobulbs. Stems elongate, stout, leafy. 
Leaves very coriaceous, linear-oblong, truncately or bluntly 2- 
lobed at the apex. Flowers in long drooping densely cylindric 
racemes, showy. Sepals spreading, broad, obtuse. Petals similar 
to the sepals but narrower. Lip adnate to the short foot of the 
column, the hypochile forming a deep wide pubescent sac without 
side-lobes ; epichile obovate, acute, concave with erect margins. 
Column short, stout, dilated at the base and with a very short 
