818 ' OXLVIII. ORCHIDE2E. (J. D. Hooker.) [PJtajus. 



leaves; bracts oblong, acute; flowers 2 in. broad, greenish yellow and rufous ; sepals 

 and petals spreading ; lip yellow will) two red blotches. Trinieu, Syst. Cat. Ceyl. 

 PI. 88, refers this to P. bicolor, but the habit is quite different, the flowers much 

 smaller, and lip short. I have seen no drawing of this. 



**** Raceme terminating the leafy stem. 



7. P. albus, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 3749; Gen. fy Sp. Orchid. 128; 

 pseudobulb 0, leaves distichous oblong- or linear-lanceolate acuminate, 

 raceme sessile, bracts nearly as long as the flowers persistent, sepals 

 and petals oblong-lanceolate acuminate, lip shovel-shaped with a broad 

 toothed and crisped midlobe, disk with 5 crested ridges, spur short. 

 Sot. Reg. 1838, t. 33 ; Bot. Mag. t. 3991 ; Knowtes fy Westc. t. 125 ; Paxt. 

 Mag. v. t. 125 ; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 205 ; Blume^Mus. Bot. ii. 181. P. 

 Marshalliana, Reichb.f. in Linncea, xli. 65 ; Regel Gartenfl. t. 1098 ; Warn. 

 Orchid. Alb. t. 130. P. Dodgsoni, Dean Floral Mag. 1878, t. 829. 

 Thunia alba, Reichb. f. in Bot. Zeit. 1852, 764; Rev. Ilorticol 1874, 

 t. 450. T. pulchra, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1881, ii. 166. Limodorum 

 bracteatum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 466. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA, alt. 2-5000 ft., from Garwhal to Sikkim, ascending to 

 6000 ft. KHASIA MTS., alt. 4-5000 ft. ABRACAN and BUBMA. The CONCAN ; on 

 Matheran Hill, &raham, Dalzell, &c. 



Stems stout, 6-18 in., densely tufted, pendulous, leafy from the slightly swollen 

 base. Leaves 6-14 in., soft, glaucous beneath. Raceme 2-3 in., distichously 4-8-fld. ; 

 bracts 1^-2J in., chartaceous, narrowly cymbiform, acute ; sepals and petals erecto- 

 patent, 2^-3 in. long, white ; lip white or pale or dark yellow with purple red or 

 ochreous veins. Capsule 1 in. long. Very variable in size of flower and colour of lip. 

 See vars. Veitchiana, Warn. Orchid. Alb. viii. t. 326, and Wrigleyana, Williams. 



VAR. Bensonice ; flowers rose-purple, lip deep purple with a white base. Thunia 

 Bensoni'se, HooJc.f. Sot. Mag. t. 5694 ; Jennings Orchid, t. 35. 



25. NEPHELAPHYLLUXVI, Blume. 



Terrestrial creeping herbs with the habit of Neottiece. Leaves few, 

 petioled, ovate or cordate. Scape included in a large sheath with the leaf ; 

 flowers racemed. Sepals free, narrow, spreading or recurved. Petal* 

 linear. Lip sessile at the base of the column, erect, stoutly spurred ; spur 

 clavate, entire or 3-lobed. Column erect, 2-winged ; anther 2-celled ; 

 pollinia 8, all parallel, adnate to a linear appendage. Species 6,. Indian, 

 Malayan and Chinese. 



1. N. cordifoliunij Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 23 ; leaves 

 ovate-cordate acute or obtuse, racemes laxly 3-6-fld., bracts linear, lip 

 elongate cuneate, side lobes narrow, midlobe transverse retuse, disk with 3 

 thickened nerves ending in flattened spines on the midlobe. Citheris 

 cordifolia, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 3750 ; Gen. &[ Sp. Orchid. 129 ; Blume 

 Orchid. Archip. Ind. t. 61, f. 3, A D. 



KHASIA HILLS, alt. 4-5000 ft., Wallicfi, Griffith, &c. 



Stem 1-10 in., succulent, ascending from the creeping rhizome ; sheaths 1-4 in., 

 membranous, hyaline. Leaves 2^-4-j in., membranous, 5-7-nerved from the base ; 

 petiole 1-2 in. Scape 4-6 in. ; sheath tubular ; bracts ^ in., equalling the pedicel 

 and ovary ; sepals in. long to tip of spur, and petals 3-nerved, greenish striped 

 with purple ; lip pale purple, longer than the sepals, disk pubescent from the base 

 to the middle. Capsule in., oblong. 



2. N. pulchrum, Mume ijd. 372, t. 32 ; Orchid. Archip. Ind. 171, 



