21. LuisiA.] 159. ORCHIDACE.E. 



Chota Nagpiir, comnnmicated by Father Cardon to the Cal. Bot. Gard., probably 

 from Sarguja ! FI. March-April. 



2. L. inconspicua, Hook. f. Saccolabium ? inconspicuum, Hook. f. 

 {F.B.I.). 



Stems 6-8" long, interlaced, flexuous, internodes '5" only. Leaves 

 2-3" or (in our specimen) only 1-2", nearly straight, terete, obtuse. 

 Flowers -15" long, -25" diam., shortly pedicelled clustered. Sepals 

 and petals pale yellowish green, subequal, broadly oblong acute, lip 

 about as long, green, suffused with purple on the hypochile, epichile 

 subreniform, notched at apex, flat. Column short, very stout, 

 purple. Capsule • 25" long, ribbed. 



Manbhum, Campbell ! Fl. June- July. Fr. Sept. Campbell's original plant 

 was sent in fruit (from Jonha) and it was flowered in the Calcutta Gardens. 

 Hooker's description was from a drawng of the species from Lower Assam. 



Stems rather stout (Hooker) or slender, entirely clothed with venose sheaths. 

 Spikes 1-3-fld., very short, floral bracts membranous triangular acuminate. Sepals 

 sometimes described as ovate-lanceolate, subacute, spreading, hypochile hemi- 

 spherically saccate, epichile decurved, flat, sometimes minutely hispid and with 

 5-6 vertical lines. 



22. RHYNCHOSTYLIS, Blume. 



Epiphytes without pseudobulbs but with stout leafy stem. Leaves 

 very thick linear 2-lobed at apex. Flowers mod. -sized in long dense 

 drooping cylindric racemes. Sepals and broader petals spreading. 

 Lip adnate to the base of the column, deeply saccate and pubescent 

 at the mouth of the sac, without side-lobes, limb clawed, dilated. 

 Column short stout footless, rostellum shortly beaked ; anther 

 imperfectly 2-celled, pollinia 2, subglobose, 2-cleft with filiform 

 caudicle attached to a small gland. 



1. R. retusa, Blume. 



Stem stout, closely covered with leaf-sheaths. Leaves 6-20" by 

 -7-2", curved, deeply channelled above, keeled beneath, premorse or 

 retuse. Flowers white, blotched Avith pink or violet, •5-- 15" diam. 

 in drooping racemes 4-18" long with broad bracts. Lateral sepals 

 gibbously orbicular-ovate, obtuse or apiculate, dorsal oblong, lip with 

 the sac cylindric and much longer than the limb. 



Ranchi, Cardon ! Manbhum, Ball (specimen bad and scarcely determinable) ! 

 Fl. May- July. 



Petals elliptic, obtuse. " Epichile of lip very variable in size, usually cmieiform, 

 entire or emarginate at the tip," F.B.I. Capsule 1-1-5", clavate. 



23. DORITIS, Lindl. 



Epiphytic orchids without pseudobulbs, with short stems and flat 

 coriaceous leaves. Flowers mod. -sized in lax axillary or lateral 

 racemes. Sepals and petals spreading, similar. Lip adnate to 

 the long foot of the column and forming with it and its erect side- 

 lobes a conical sac, palate with a forked plate or callus. Column 

 narrowly winged. Anther 2-celled, pollinia 2, sulcate or 2-partite 

 attached by a linear or spathulate caudicle to a gland. 



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