Pate 2092. 
TAINIA HASTATA, Hook. f. 
OrcHiIpEx. Subtribe BLeTIEA. 
T. hastata, Hook. f.; scapo elato sate racemo elongato multi- 
floro, bracteis anguste lanceolatis ovario equilongis, floribus inter 
minoribus, sepalis lateralibus eho: baie ualibus linearibus acu- 
minatis 3-nerviis, mento obtuso, labelli disco alte 2-lamellato, hypochilo 
sagittato lobis lateralibus acutis, epichilo orbiculari basi ey 
medio obscure 3-carinato, anthera hemispherica——F!l. Brit, Ind. v. 
821. Eulophia hastata, Lindl. in Journ. Linn, Soe. iii. 25. 
Has. Assam, Masters (Herb. Griffith). 
Folia desunt. Scapus 2-3-pedalis, a sae vaginis tubu- 
losis ; racemus 5=/-pollicaris, sub-densiflorus ; bractese 4+ poll. longs. 
Flores 2 2 poll. lati; columna anguste alata. 
Lindley, who described this as a Hwlophia, says of it that it is the 
smallest-flowered of the aphyllous species of that genus, epi kr that the 
hastate lip is unlike that of any other. As far as the of the 
flowers is concerned the same may be said of it in respect of its its being 
a Tainia, to which genus it certainly belongs, as shown “4 the pollinia. 
The hypochile of the lip is not hastate, but sagittate. It may prove 
to be a small-flowered state of the common latifolia.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1. Flower, laid open, with the lip removed. 2. Lip. 8. Column. 4, Pollinia. 
All enlarged. 
