CXLVIII. ORCHTDEjE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Erin. 



hispid, bracts long narrow recurved, sepals lanceolate, petals oblanceolate 

 acute 3-nerved, lip glabrous except the ciliate base, claw broad, limb 

 obcordate. E. annulata, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 57 (not of Blume}. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt, 5000 ft., J. D. H. CACHAB, Keenan. ?TENASSERIM, 

 Heifer. 



Stem 10-12 in., about as thick as a duck's quill. Leaves subfalcate, usually (in 

 Sikkim) loaded with concretions. Flowers \ in. long, smaller than in the foregoing 

 species; bracts ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, falcate; mentum much shorter than 

 the sepals ; lip much thickened along the mesial line and tip ; foot of column 

 glabrous. 



89. E. aporina, Hook. f. Ic. Plant, ined. ; short, villously hirsute, 

 leaves f-1 in. close-set lanceolate, flowers solitary sessile, bracts small 

 ovate acute, sepals broadly ovate obtuse 3-nerved, petals narrowly sub- 

 spathulate 3-nerved, lip broadly clawed panduriform ciliolate, surfaces 

 glabrous. 



PERAK, alt. 3-4000 ft., King's Collector, Scortechini. 



Stem 6-8 in., uniformly clothed with close-set distichous leaves ; internodes 

 | in. Leaves with revolute margins. Flowers |- in.' long, glabrescent; mentum 

 as long as the sepals; side lobes of lip small, rounded; midlobe larger than both, 

 emarginate, creuate; column and its foot glabrous. Habit of sect. Aporum of 

 'Dendrobium. 



** Small species with procumbent or creeping stems, hirsute, column very 

 short. 



90. E. dasyphylla, Par. $ Reichl.f. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxx. 147; 

 hirsute all over, stems interlaced, leaves |-f in. sessile fleshy elliptic- 

 obovate, flowers very small solitary shortly peduncled. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, Herb. Griff 1 . (Kew Distrib* 5131); at the foot of the hills, 

 J. D. H. KHASIA HILLS, alt. 1-2000 ft., J. D. H. fy T. T. PEGU, Kurz. TENAS- 

 SEKIM, Heifer (K. D. 5382), Parish. 



Stems as thick as a sparrow-quill. Leaves subacute, convex on both surfaces. 

 Scape %-% in.; bracts cupular ; sepals 5-nerved, dorsal very small, lateral triangular, 

 acute; mentum large, rounded; petals broadly oblong, 1-3-nerved ; lip large, 

 cuneately obovate, side lobes small, midlobe broader, nerves strong ; anther beaked ; 

 pollinia equal, pyriform. Near Trichotosia microphylla, Blume, of Java. 



Sect. X. XIPHOSIUM (see p. 786). 



91. E. carinata, Gils, in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 365; Lindl. in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 50. E. rosea, Wall.Cat. 7409 (not of Lindl.} ; Reichl. f. 

 in Walp. Ann. vi. 269 (in part}. E. Fordii, Rolfe in. Gard. Citron. 1886, 

 ii. 584 (eoccl. halitat}. Xiphosium acuminatum, Grijf. Notul. iii. 33^ ; Itin. 

 Notes 78, No. 1153; Ic. Plant. Asiat. t. 316. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, King, JEhves. KHASIA MTS., Griffith (Kew Distrib. 

 5121). 



Pseudobulbs on a stout or slender rhizome, 24 in., ovoidly oblong, sulcate. 

 Leaf thickly coriaceous, with the stout petiole G-18 in. Scape 6-8 in., included up 

 - to the raceme in the sword-shaped upper sheath ; bracts 1 in., linear-lanceolate ; 

 sepals ovate or ovate-lanceolate, green and white with red nerves, keel serrate ; 

 mentum rounded ; petals rhombic, acute ; lip obovate-oblong, red-brown, side lobes 

 narrow, midlobe rounded or ovate ; column short. Very near the Hong Kong 

 2?. rosea. 



