Plate 214G. 



PODOCHILUS KHASIANUS, HooZ;,/. 



Orchide^. Sabtribe Notvlikj:. 



P. khasianus, Hook. f. FL Brit, Ind. vi. 81; canlibus gracilihus 

 follovsis, foliis linearibus acutis, racemo brevissimo terminali paiiciHoro, 

 floribus minutis, sepalis ovato-oblongis acutis, meiito tumido, petalis 

 ovato-oblongia obtusis, labello oblonfro-lance<:)lato basi profunde cordato, 

 appendice obsolete ? P. niicropbjllus, Wall, Cat. 7335 B ; Lindl. Gen. 

 et Sp. Orchid. 234 in part i in Journ, Linn. Soc. iii. 37. 



Hab. Silhet, WaUichi the Kliasia Hills, at Amwee J.V.H. and T,T. 



Gatiles fasciculati, 4-6 poll, lorgl, suberecti, crassitie penuse paF- 

 seriiife, ad basin foliosi. FoUa ^-i poll, longa, erecto-patentia, rigida, 

 sa?pe torta, vaginis ^-^ poll, longis. FeJuncahts foliis brevior, bracteaj 

 rigidoe nervosae. Flores jV P^l^* locgi. Sepala l-nervia, lateralia sub- 

 falcata, basi in mentuni brev^e conico-hemispliericam tumescentia. 

 FetaJa breviora. Lahellum breviter anguste ungniculatum, ungne 

 basi columri£e inserto. Columna breviasima, alata, demum in brachia 

 2 postice concava basi fissa ; antbera 2-cuspidata ; pollinia brevia, per 

 paria calyptrata. 



Verj different from F. vncrophjUas^ Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7335 A, 

 witli wbicb it has been confounded, in the stouter habit, narrower 

 leaves, Tery short spike, in apparently wanting the large basal append- 

 age of the lip, and especially in the bicuspidate anther. F. microplujlhts 

 is a native of Burma and the Malayan Peninsula and Islands. — J. D. II. 



Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Lip. 3. Column after fission. 4. Anther. 5. Pollinia. All 

 greatly enlarged. 



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