Tipiiku-ia.'] CXLVIII. ORCHIDEJS. (J. D. Hooker.) 709 



TEMPERATE SIKKIM HIMALAYA ; in woods of the interior, alt. 10-12.000 ft., 

 J. D. H. 



Paeudoljulb \ in. Leaf 2-3 in., 5-7-nerved ; petiole J-l in. Scape with the 

 raceme 8-12 in., slender; bracts very minute; flower in. across. Sepals with 

 revolute margins and petals ohtuse; lip 3-nerved, spur rather longer than the ovary 

 and short pedicel. Differs from the American T. discolor in the much smaller flowers, 

 shorter 3-nerved sepals, larger side lobes of the lip, ovate midlobe, and much shorter 

 spur and column. 



6. OREORCKIS. Lindl. ' 



Terrestrial herbs, stem tuberous or pseudobulbous, 1-2-leaved. Leaves 

 long, narrow. Scape slender; flowers small, racemose. Sepals and petals 

 subsimilar, erect, 5-nerved. Lip adnate to the base of the column, claw 

 erect, side lobes short, erect; midlobe spreading, entire. Column elongate, 

 subclavate, truncate ; anther 1-celled, with a stipes (as in Tipularia) ; 

 pollinia 4, subglobose, distinct. Species 4, North Asiatic. 



1. O. foliosa, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 27 ; flowers pedicelled, 

 dorsal gepal linear-oblong subacute, lateral falcately oblong acuminate, 

 petals broadly oblong obtuse, base of lip produced into a sac, lateral lobes 

 of lip large rounded, midlobe as large as both lateral rounded. Corallorhiza 

 sp. with leaves, Lindl. in Royle III. 362. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; Simla, alt. 7800 ft., Gamble; Garwhal, Royle; Sikkirn, 

 Lachen Valley, alt. 11-12,000 ft., J. D. H. 



Root a tuber rather than pseudobulb. Leaf 3-6 in., linear-lanceolate, nerves 

 strong. Scape with raceme 6-12 in., few-fld. ; sheaths 2-3, tubercled ; bracts 

 Lmceolate, caducous; flowers in. long, red - brown ; pedicel and ovary in.; lip 

 many-nerved, median keels very obscure. 



2. O. indica, Hook. f. ; flowers sessile, dorsal sepal linear-lanceolate, 

 lateral subt'alcately lanceolate, petals narrowly subfalcately oblong obtuse, 

 mentum 0, lip clawed, side lobes ear-shaped incurved obtuse, midlobe 

 rounded entire or sub-2-lobed, disk with a raised median lamella between 

 the lateral lobes. Corallorhiza indica, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 26 

 (not of Dene.}. 



TEMPERATE WESTERN HIMALAYA; Simla, on Hattu, Thomson; Garvvhal. alt. 

 8-9000 ft., Edgeworth. 



Much more robust than 0. foliosa; flowers much larger, sepals in. long. 

 Edgeworth's specimen has a tuberous lobed root, and a broken leaf 1 in. broad, which 

 removes the plant from Corallorhiza. 



3. O. micrantha, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 27; dorsal sepal 

 obtuse, mentum 0, lip with small lanceolate falcate basal lobes, midlobe 

 large with a 2-lobed crumpled tip, disk with a very elevated linear chan- 

 nelled fleshy callus. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA; Kumaon, alt. 8-10,000 ft., Thomson, Strachey $ Winter- 

 bottom (Orchid. No. 56). 



Pseudobulb globose. Leaves 2, |-j in. broad, narrowly linear. Scape 12-18 in., 

 with 2-3 tubular sheaths ; flowers -} in. long. 



7. CORALLORHIZA, 2?r. 



Leafless, red-brown, erect, terrestrial herbs ; rhizome coralloid, jointed. 

 Scape simple, sheathed ; flowers small, whitish, in a terminal spike or 



