fria.] CXLVIII. ORCHIDE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 805 



oblong obtuse 3-nerved, lip narrow fleshy ?, side lobes tooth-like, mid lobe 

 narrow tongue-shaped or obloug. 



PERAK ; at low elevatrons, King's Collector. 



Pseudobulbs at first the sheathed thickened lower intcruode of the stem, after the 

 fall of the sheaths ovoid-oblong, \- 1 in. long ; sheaths 1 in., ovate. Leaves 3-4 in., 

 many-nerved, tip unequally 2-tid. Racemes 1-2 in., 6-10-fld. ; bracts j in., broadly 

 ovate, membranous, quite glabrous, as long as the woolly ovary ; " flowers waxy 

 white, blue inside ;" sepals sparsely woolly. 



Sect. VIII. BAMBUSIFOLTA (see p. 736). 



77. E. bambusifolia, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 61 ; leaves 

 large linear-oblong or oblong- lanceolate, racemes as long simple or branched 

 slender laxly many-fld. and flowers densely brown-tomentose, bracts small 

 orbicular apiculate, lateral sepals ovate-lanceolate falcate 5-nerved, mentum 

 long incurved, petals oblanceolate acuminate falcate 3-nerved, lip clawed 

 ovate-oblong strongly nerved,-side lobes very small, midlobe small orbicular, 

 column long decurved. 



TROPICAL SIKKIM HIMALAYA, J. D. H. KHASIA MTS. ; at Borpanee, alt. 

 3-4000 ft., Simonds, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 5112). 



Stem 2-3 ft., as thick as the thumb or less. Leaves a span long and less, 1-2 in. 

 broad, acuminate, many-nerved. Raceme longer than the leaves; rachis slender; 

 bracts J in., reflexed ; pedicel |- in.; ovary slender; lateral sepals in. long. 

 Capsule 1-1 in., slender, subterete, ribs slender. 



78. E. crassicaulis, Hook. /. Ic. Plant, ined. ; leaves subterminal 

 elliptic ovate or elliptic-lanceolate, racemes as long slender laxly many-fld. 

 and flowers brown-tomentose, bracts small orbicular, lateral sepals broadly 

 oblong very obtuse 5-nerved, mentum short incurved, petals oblong 

 3-nerved, lip banded with purple shortly clawed, side lobes narrow, midlobe 

 emarginate, base not contracted, claw axis and midlobe furf uraceous as are 

 sometimes the 2 lateral nerves on the disk, column large decurved. E. 

 clavicaulis ?, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 59. 



KHASIA MTS. ; at Pomrang, alt. 4-5000 ft., J. D. H. 8f T. T. 



Stem 10-12 in., as thick as the thumb or less ; lower internodes 2-3 in. Leaves 

 4-6 in., acutely unequally 2-tid, coriaceous, nerved. Racemes as long ; bracts ^ in. ; 

 pedicels with ovary -! in. ; flowers pale, banded with purple ; lateral sepals J in., 

 dorsal as long; pollinia broadly pyriform. Much less leafy than E. bambusifolia, 

 more pseudobulbous in habit, with shorter ovary and very differently shaped sepals, 

 petals and lip ; the racemes and bracts of the two are singularly alike. The Khasia 

 specimens have only stem, leaves, raceme and bracts ; the description of the flowers 

 is from Kew Garden specimens, and a fine drawing in Herb. Calcutt. of a form with 

 stem f in. diam. 



79. E. leptocarpa ? HooJc.f. Ic. Plant, ined. ; leaves linear-lanceolate, 

 tip dimidiate, peduncle subracemosely 3-5-fld., bracts ovate acute, lateral 

 sepals ovate-lanceolate acuminate and oblong petals 3-nerved, mentum 

 large obtuse incurved, lip broadly clawed, side lobes oblong incurved 

 overlapping the larger broadly orbicular pubescent midlobe, axis with 

 3 ridges thickened at the sinus, column very short, capsule 3 in. very 

 slender. 



PERAK ; ScortecMni, King's Collector. 



Stem 2-3 ft., nearly as thick below as the little finger, and Jiollow ; internodes 

 1-1 .V in. Leaves 6-8 in., thiuly coriaceous, obtuse, tip of one side }, in. longer than 

 the other. Peduncle 1 in., and bracts }-.} in., fleshy ? ; flowers yellow mottled with 



