142 ORCHIDS. 



or variety is figured is indicated, that any one having ac- 

 cess to a Botanical Library may ascertain the appearance 

 and study the description of the plant in a more extended 

 form than we have been able to transfer to these pages. 



Acanthophippium. Blume. Terrestrial. 



Name obscure ? ffyiinria., a saddle cloth. Xenophon. 

 B. Acanthophippium bicolor. Ceylon . B. R., 1730. 



Maud, Bot, 4, 200. 



Flowers roundish, of a fine orange color tipped with 

 purple and deep red. 



B. Acanthophippium javanicum. Batavia. B. R., 32, 47. 



B. M., 4492. 

 Blume, Orch., 49. 

 Lem. Jard., 35. 

 M. O. P., i. 



Petals and sepals pale yellow, striped and marked with 

 purple. The lip is narrow and is of peculiar form and 

 furnished with many recurved teeth ; the ground color is 

 pale yellow tinged with purple. 



C. Acanthophippium striatum. Lindley. Nepaul, 



B. R., 1838, 68. 



Perianth pure white at the base, striped with delicate 

 purple ; the lip richly marked with purple. 



R. Acanthophippium sylhetense. Sylhet . . G. & S., 177. 

 The perianth is creamy white, tinted with rose. 



The flowers are produced plentifully at the base of the 

 pseudo-bulbs on short peduncles. The plants should be 



