OXLVIII. ORCHIDE^:. (J. D. Hooker.) 7^3 



1. P. parviflora, Lindl. Fol. Orchid. 1 ; lip narrowly lanceolate. P. 

 reflexa, Lindl. 1. c. Ccelogyne parviflora, Lindl. Gen. fy Sp. Orchid. 44. 

 Dendrobium demissum, Don Prodr. 34. Androgyne, Griff. Notul. iii. 279. 



SUBTEOPICAL HIMALAYA ; Nepal, WallicU ; Sikkim, alt. 4-10,000 ft., Clarke. 

 KHASIA MTS., Griffith, &c. 



Pseudobulbs -1 in., narrow. Leaves 2-3 in., petioled, elliptic-lanceolate, acute. 

 Scape filiform; bracts in., oblong, acute; 'raceme 3-5-fld. ; flowers fin. long, 

 white; lateral sepals membranous, lanceolate, acute, 5-nerved ; dorsal linear-oblong; 

 petals ovate-lanceolate, 3-nerved, base gibbous ; lip 3-nerved, subacute, tip of slender 

 claw 2-tubercled; column pale brown, tip entire or toothed. Capsule % in. long, 

 turgidly obovoid. 



2. P. apiculata, Lindl. Fol. Orchid. 2 ; lip broadly oblong apiculate. 

 Coelogyne apiculata, Par. $ Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1865, 1035. 



TENASSERIM ; at Moulmein, Lobb, Parish. 



Pseudobulbs -| in., ovoid, 2-leaved. Leaves 2|-3 in., sbortly petioled, linear- 

 lanceolate. Scape 1-2-fld., shorter than the leaves; basal sheaths membranous; 

 bracts shorter than the pedicel ; flowers |- f in. diam., greenish or white with two 

 small brown blotches on the lip ; sepals keeled, acute ; petals ovate-lanceolate, 

 acuminate ; lip with a saccate sigmoid claw, sides obscurely angled, tip sometimes 

 obtusely 3-toothed. 



17. ACROCHJENE, Lindl. 



A large epiphyte ; pseudobulbs on a stout rhizome, 1-leaved. Leaf 

 long-petioled, linear-oblong, coriaceous. Scape lateral, erect ; raceme long, 

 lax-fld. ; bracts large, membranous. Sepals spreading, subequal, lateral 

 obliquely adnate to the foot of the column. Petals small, lacerate. Lip 

 erect, shorter than the sepals, jointed to the foot of the column, claw short ; 

 side lobes induplicate, adnate to the face of the narrow oblong obtuse blade. 

 Column very short, stout, foot long ; anther transversely oblong, 1-celled ; 

 pollinia 2, globose, cohering by a short flat granular at length 2-partite 

 viscus. 



A. punctata, Lindl. Fol. Orchid. 1 ; Walp. Ann. vi. 635. 



TROPICAL SIKKIM HIMALAYA, J. D. H. 



Pseudobulbs 1 in., conic or subglobose. Leaf 5-6 by 1^-2 in. ; petiole 3-4 in. 

 Scape 6-10 in., stout, base broadly sheathed; bracts f in., acute, deciduous; 

 flowers 1 in. diam. ; pedicel slender ; sepals membranous, 7-nerved, dorsal oblong- 

 ovate ; lateral gibbously triangular-ovate, acuminate ; petals with capillary ends of 

 the fimbriae ; lip incurved, side lobes very convex, obtuse, adnate to the narrow 

 short thick truncate midlobe. 



18. CHRYSOQX.OSSUIK, Bhime. 



Terrestrial; rhizome creeping ; pseudobulb narrow or 0, 1-leaved. Leaf 

 solitary, elliptic-lanceolate, plaited. Scape lateral from the rhizome, long, 

 erect, sheathed ; flowers laxly racemed. Sepals subequal, lateral connate 

 into a mentum with the base of* the lip. Petals narrower. Lip erect, 

 broadly 3-lobed and with sometimes an auricled base, disk with 3 lamella. 

 Column incurved, margins 2-auricled or lobed about the middle ; anther 

 2 celled ; pollinia 2, free. Species 4-5, Indian and Malayan. 



Entirely resembles Tainia and Plocoglottis in habit, but pollen very different. 



1. C. villosum, Blume Bijd. 338, t. 17 ; Orchid. Archip. Ind. 162. 

 t. 47 ; leaf very large shortly petioled villous on both surfaces. De Vriese 

 III. Orchid. 290, t. 12, f. 4; Walp. Ann. vi. 206. 



PERAK, St-ort echini. DISTRIB. Java. 



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