."] cxLvin. ORCHIDE^:. (J. D. Hooker.) 703 



habitat is an error. In Liudley's Herbarium the plant is ticketed by Griffith as 

 from the Brahmakoond. 



45. Zi. Scortechini, Hook.f. ; pseudobulb long stout, leaf 14 by 

 2| in. linear-oblong acute 5-nerved, scape as long as the leaf flowering 

 to the base, rachis very stout, bracts small lanceolate, sepals recurved, 

 margins recurved, lip nearly straight longer than the sepals flabellately 

 obcordate from a narrow 2-auricled 2-tubercled neck, lobes deeply crenate, 

 column slender incurved, wings obscure. 



PERAK, Scortechini. 



Pseudobulb subcyliudric, 4^ by 1 in. Leaves sessile. Raceme laxly many-fld., 

 rachis in. diam. ; bracts % in.; pedicels ^-f in. Near L. latifolia, of Java, but 

 the bracts are much smaller, lip with a longer narrower neck and much smaller limb. 

 A very fine species, of which I have seen only a drawing by Father Scortechini, 

 numbered 1518, but which does not correspond with the plant so numbered in his 

 collection. 



46. Zi. flaccida, Reichb. f. in Linncea xli. 44 ; leaves 2 6-10 in., 

 scape and raceme very long slender, bracts minute, pedicels decurved, 

 flowers very small, sepals obtuse 3-nerved flattish, lateral at length revolute, 

 lip recurved narrow oblong dilated below the middle and there ciliate, tip 

 2-fid, lobes triangular subacute, calli 0, column incurved, wings obscure. 

 Ridley in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxii. 296. 



PERAK, King's Collector. DISTRIB. Java, Borneo. 



Pseudobulb in Perak spns. small ; in Javan very large, 2 by 1 in. Leaves in 

 Perak spns. 8-10 by f in., narrowed from near the lip to the base, in Javan much 

 broader, nerves 5-9. Scape with raceme much longer than the leaves, flowering 

 nearly to the base, bracts lanceolate membranous; pedicels -$ in. ; flower about 

 -j^ in. across. 



* 



ft Sepals I-ncrred (unknown in L. vestita). 



47. L. long-ipes, Lindl. in Watt. PI As. Ear. i. 31, t. 35, Cat. 1943 

 (in part] ; Gen. <Sf Sp. Orchid. 40 ; leaves 2 linear obovate-oblong or 

 oblanceolate, scape many-fld., bracts small lanceolate acuminate, flowers 

 very many small white, sepals obtuse at length revolute 1-nerved, lip 

 recurved yellow broadly ovate subacute rather fleshy, calli 0, column in- 

 curved, wings rounded. Ridley in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxii. 293 (excl. syn. 

 L. elegans, Lindl.) ; Wight Ic. t. 906; Thwaites Enum. 295. L. pendula, 

 Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1838, Misc. 180; Regel Ind. gem. Hort. Petrop. 1868, 

 79. L. spathulata, Lindl. in Sot. Reg. 1842. PL. nesophila, Reichb.f. 

 Ot. Hamb. i. 56. ? L. Boothii, Regel Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. 1864, Suppl 

 14. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA, alt. 1-5000 ft., from Kumaon eastwards to MUXNIPORE 

 and the KHASIA MTS., alt. 3-5000 ft., and southwards to PERAK and PENANG. 

 NILGHIRI HILLS and southwards. CEYLON, common below 3000 ft. DISTRIB. 

 Malay and Pacific Islands, China. 



Pseudolulbs short and ovoid, or long sometimes 6 in. and cylindric. Leaves 4-12 

 by 1-a li in., obtuse, acute or acuminate, 5-7-nerved. Scape and raceme 6-10 in. 

 with a few bracts below the flowers, slender. Variable in habit and foliage, but 

 constant in inflorescence and flowers. The sepals are not acute, as sometimes de- 

 scribed. The form with short pseudobulbs (L. spathulata} occurs everywhere with 

 the long pseudobulbed, and intermediates abound. 



48. Xi. vestita, Reichb.f. in Flora 1872, 274 ; pseudobulbs approximate 

 subterete rod-like 2-leaved, young clothed with broad sheaths, leaves cu- 



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