r/Hijus.] CXLVIII. OROHIDE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 817 



SYLUET, Wallich. 



Pacudobulbs 3-5 in., elongate, naked. Leaves 2-3 ft. by 2-6 in. Scape 12- 

 18 in.; sheaths acuminate; flowers 1^ in. diam., in short pyramidal racemes; 

 bracts l- in. long, subpersisteut ; pedicels short ; lip longer than the sepals. 

 Described chiefly from drawings in Herb. Kevv by Roxburgh and another. 



3. P. maculatus, Lindl. in Wall. Gat. 3748 ; Gen. $ Sp. Orchid. 

 127 ; leaves elliptic-lanceolate acuminate, scape with tubular sheaths, 

 racemes many and dense-fid., flowers golden, sepals and petals erect oblong 

 very obtuse concave, side lobes of lip narrow, midlobe very short broad 

 crumpled, spur short conical. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1803; Sot. Mag. t. 3960; 

 Blume Mus. Bot. ii. 180 ; Orchid. Arc/tip. Ind. 9. Bletia nava, Wall. mss. 

 B. Woodf ordii, Hook. Sot. Mag. t. 2719 ; Reichb. Fl. Exot. t. 63. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA; Nepal, WallicJi ; Sikkim, J.D.H. KHASIA MTS., 

 Griffith. DISTKIB. China, Japan. 



Pseudobulbs broadly ovoid, as large as the fist. Leaves 1-1^ ft., often spotted 

 with dull yellow. Scape 2-3 ft. j bracts 1-li in., obtuse ; pedicels very short ; 

 sepals 1J in., often tipped with green; inidlobe of lip orange-brown or con- 

 colorous. 



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Scape from the top of the pseudobulb. 



4. P. callosus, Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 1848, 287 (with cut of fl.) ; 

 leaves radical or subradical linear-lanceolate acuminate, scape from the 

 top of the pseudobulb at the base of the leaves, sepals linear-oblong 

 acute, petals linear dilated above the middle, lip with a tubular limb and 

 short midlobe, spur short incurved. Blume Mus. Bot. ii. 178; Orchid. 

 Arc/tip. Ind. 4, t. 2; Reiclib. f. X.en. Orchid, ii. t. 122. Limodorum callo- 

 sum, Blume Bijd. 374, t. 6. 



PEKAK, King's Collector. DISTKIB. Java. 



Very similar to P. Wallichii, but distinguished by its more oblong sepals and 

 the broad ends of the petals. Flowers dull reddish brown ; tube of lip yellowish 

 white with a pink tinge, bright red towards the apex, midlobe retuse. The colours 

 probably vary as in f Wallichii. 



*** Scape axillary or from amongst the leaves. 



5. P. mishmensis, Reichb. f. in Bonpl. v. 43; in Walp. Ann. vi. 

 922, 928 ; hardly pseudobulbous, stem tall, leaves alternate elliptic-lanceo- 

 late, scape axillary, bracts lanceolate caducous, raceme ]ax-fld., sepals and 

 petals erecto-patent linear-oblong subacute concave rose-cold., lip not 

 exceeding the sepals, side lobes rounded and small 2-lobuled midlobe quite 

 entire, spur narrowly conical. Limatodes mishmensis, Lindl. ty Pajct. Fl. 

 Gard. iii. 36. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA; in hot valleys, Clarke, (Ic. Cathcart). Mishmi Hills in 

 UPPER ASSAM, Griffith. 



S(em,\\\ Ic. Cathcart, 3-1 ft., sheathed below, G-8-leaved above. Leaves 6-12 by 

 4-5 in., acuminate. Scapes 1-2, rather .slender, not exceeding the- lca\*s ; flowers 

 erect, ! in. long; pedicel and ovary as long; lip white, axis pubescent. 



6. P. luridus, Thwtites Enum. 300; pseudobulb ?, leaves lanceolate 

 acuminate, raceme i'ew-rld., bracts caducous, sepals and petals lanceolate 

 acuminate, lip rounded obscurely 3-lobed, side lobes short broad rounded, 

 midlobe waved, disk hairy, spur very short. 



CEYLON; in the Saffragam district, Tit wiU, .-. 



Terrestrial; stem 2 ft. Leaves 12-18 bv 3-5 in. Scapes 1-2, as long as the 



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