﻿TAINIA PEOMENSIS, Hook./. 



Orciiide.e. Sub-Tribe Bletie^. 



T. promensis, HooJe.f. in Fl. Brit. Ltd. v. V. ined. ; caule gracili 

 nato, folio longe petiolato augnste lanceolato acuminato, scapo 

 gracili vaginato, racemo 6-8-floro, bracteis elongi 

 lanceolatis acatis, petalisque elliptico-obtusis 5-7-nerviis, labcllo sps 

 lato eroso, disco concavo callis truncatis onusto, calcare elor 

 obtuso. Eulopliia promei '• 7365: flW.$ 



Orchid. 181. 



Hab. Pegu, on the Prome Hills, Wallich, 



Folii lamina pedalis, 1£ poll, lata, plicata, in petiolum gracillii 

 lamina longiorem angustata, 5-nervis. Scapus ur 

 floro petiolo aeqnilongus : vagina? 4-5, 2-S-pollio 

 cares, lanceolate, ny;u-inm snporantes ; sepala f poll, longn ; coin 

 elongata, anguste alata; pollinia, si non fallor, 4, collateralia. 



Of this fine species only two specimens are known, one in 

 Wallichian Herbarium of the Linnean Society, the other in Lindl 

 both of course from the same source. It belongs to the first of 

 two sections into which I have divided the genns ; that m which 

 lateral sepals are free from the saccate or spurred lip, those, Uj ri 

 that have no true mentum. To this group 

 tnridufmea, 'Bot. Mag.' t. 4660; fi 

 VvV.!. Cat. 3740), both brought under To 

 Plant.' iii. 515), tog ■ Fl J!r:t J 



new species discovered by Maingay.—2. D. Hooker. 



Lindl. 



Flower. 2. Lip (from Lindley's 



. Column. All enlarged. 



