Cf>< ritia.] CXLVIII. ORCHIDE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 



linear acute or acuminate, scape terete bracteate, 'raceme very slender, bracts 

 lanceolate, flowers subwhorled pedicelled, petals narrow, lip twice as long 

 as the sepals obscurely lobed at the base with two acute parallel lobes at 

 the ti> and a short tooth in the sinus. Wall. Cat. 1950. Malaxis caules- 

 cens, Reichlt.f. in Walp. Ann. vi. 215. 



NEPAX, Wallich. KHASIA HILLS, Lobb, Kala Panee and Pomrang, alt. 5000 ft., 

 J. D. H. $ T. T. 



Stem 2-3 in., rather slender. Leaves 2-3 by J in. Scape with the raceme, 2-3 in. ; 

 flowers pale, about -^ in. Capsules on slender pedicels. 



30. O. rufilabris, Lindl. Serf. Orchid, t. 8 A ; Fol. Orchid. Oberon. 

 5 ; leaves small narrowly oblong thin, scape short with many setaceous 

 spreading bracts and rachis filiform, spike very slender, flowers minute very 

 shortly pedicelled in dense separate whorls, bracts setaceous, petals linear- 

 oblong, iip longer than the sepals oblong with filiform lateral lobes close to 

 the narrow base and two parallel short terminal lobes with recurved acute 

 tips and a broad lobule in the sinus. Malaxis rufilabris, Reichb. f. in 

 Walp. Ann. vi. 213. 



BUEMA, Berkeley ; at Moulmeiu, Griffith. 



Leaves 1-li in., acute or obtuse. Scape find, raceme together 1-2 in. j flowers 

 V in. ; lip red-brown; column with two subulate teeth. 



8. Lip with broad or long side lobes and a large midlobe. 



31. O. Scortechini, Hook.f. ; leaves long narrowly ensiform, raceme 

 very long slender, bracts ovate-lanceolate as long as the pedicels, petals 

 linear, lip 3-lobed, side lobes lanceolate longer than the small orbicular or 

 rhomboid midlobe. 



PEEAK, Scortechini, King's Collector. 



Rootstock creeping. Leaves 6-10 by 3 in., falcate, narrowed from the base to 

 the acuminate tip. Scape short, cylindric, puberulous ; raceme 12-18 in. ; bracts 

 white, T V in. ; flowers yellowish ; lateral sepals revolute, oblong, obtuse. -A ver^r 

 remarkable species with a stout creeping rootstock, quite unlike any other in the 

 flowers, which more resemble those of a minute-fid. Liparis. 



32. O. Wigrhtiana, Lindl. in Sot. Reg. 1839, Misc. No. 9; Fol. 

 Orchid. 'Oberon. 5; leaves short linear-oblong or ensiform acute, scape 

 short terete naked or sparsely bracteate, raceme slender curved or decurved, 

 flowers shortly pedicelled, bracts oblong or lanceolate erose, petals linear, 

 lip equalling or exceeding the sepals, lateral lobes very large oblong or 

 rounded terminal narrow with diverging often toothed lobes. Wight Ic. 

 t. 1627 ; Hook. /. Ic. Plant, t. 1784 B. 0. Arnottiana, Wiglit I. c. 1628. 

 O. stachyoides, A. Rich, in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 2, xv. 15, t. 1 A. Malaxis 

 Wightiana, ReicJib.f. in Walp. Ann. vi. 212. 



TEAVANCOEE and NILGHIRI MTS., Wight, &c. CEYLON, Walker, &c. 



Leaves 14 by ^ g- in., acute, rarely falcate. Scape and raceme together 3-6 in., 

 usually decurved ; bracts longer or shorter than the pedicels ; flowers whorled or 

 not, very variable in size, -^ s -^\ in., pale yellow-green. Capsules long-pedicelled. 

 Resembles strongly O. myriantha & verticillata, from the first of which the lip 

 distinguishes it, and the narrow petals from both. 0. Arnottiana is, I think, a longer 

 pedicelled variety. The variety figured in Ic. Plant, is a very small state. 



33. O. Treutleri, Hook. f. Ic. Plant. 1. 1786 A ; subcaulescent leaves 

 short linear oblong or oblorjg-laiiceolate, scape adnate below to the upper leaf 

 flat, above it very short bracteate, spike short, bracts ovate-lanceolate 



