Neplielapliyllum.'] CXLVIII. OROHIDEJ:. (J. D. Hooker.) 819 



t. Gl, f. 1 ; leaves ovate or cordate, racemes densely many-fid., bracts large 

 lanceolate, lip entire obovate-oblong with 3 crested ridges towards the 

 rounded tip. Lindl. Gen. fy Sp. Orchid. 24 ; Reichb. f. Xen. Orchid, i. 

 216, t. 88, f. 1 ; Sot. Mag. t. 5332. 



PEEAK, Kings Collector, Wray. DISTRIB. Java. 



Habit of N. cordifolium, but stevn, petioles aud scape shorter, flowers in a 

 conical spike, and lip very different. Leaves rather fleshy, mottled green, with a 

 metallic lustre. Scape 1-3 in. ; bracts in., membranous ; sepals | in. to the tip of 

 the spur.- There may be two species confounded here. The Bot. Mag. plant has 

 green sepals and a white lip with yellow ridges. King's specimens have waxy-white 

 sepals tipped with yellow and a pink calyx ; Wray figures an obcordate lip, cream - 

 cold., pencilled with crimson, and dull-green sepals. 



VAK. siJcJcimensis ; sepals and petals narrower purplish or white spotted with 

 pink. Sikkim near Darjeeling ( Ic. Herb. Kew Sf Herb. Calcutt.). Bhotan ? 

 Griffith (Kew. Distrib. 5370). 



3. N. tenuiflorum, Blume Bijd. 372; Orchid. Archip. Ind. 172, 



t. 61, f. 2 ; leaves subhastately cordate acuminate, scape tall slender lax-fid., ' 

 bracts linear, lip narrowly panduriform, side lobes acute, midlobe ovate 

 crenulate with 3 crested ridges. De Vriese Illust. Orchid, t. 12, f. 3 (bad) ; 

 Walp. Ann. vi. 217. 



PERAK, ScortecMni. DISTRIB. Java. 



Stem 3-6 in., slender. Leaves 1| 3 in. ; petiole 1 in. Scape 6-8 in., 1-10-fld. ; 

 bracts -f in., longer than the pedicel and ovary ; sepals and petals very narrow, 

 3-nerved, dorsal strongly keeled ; lip pubescent between the side lobes. 



26. TAXNXA, Blume. 



Terrestrial glabrous herbs; caudex creeping, bearing a solitary elliptic- 

 lanceolate long-petioled leaf on a slender or stont pseudobulb,'and with a 

 very long scape at or near its base. Flowers small or middle-sized, 

 racemose. Sepals narrow ; lateral falcate, adnate to and forming a mentum 

 with the saccate base of the lip, or inserted above it. Lip adnate by its 

 base only to that of the slender column, hastately 3-lobed, rarely entire, 

 disk lamellate. Anther with often a simple or 2-lobed boss, or 2 horns ; 

 pollinia 4 or 8, free or united by a viscus, 4 sometimes smaller. Species 

 15-18, Indian, Malayan and Chinese. 



Very like Chrysoglossum, which has 2 free pollinia, Eulophia which has a tuber- 

 ous rhizome and 4 pollinia with stipes and gland, and Plocoglottis in which the sides 

 of the lip are adnate to those of the column and the pollinia are in stipitate pairs on 

 a gland. In habit, Tainia is totally distinct from lEria, as also in the long column. 

 Calanthes are many-leaved, and the caudex is rarely creeping. 



* Spur of lip free from the base of the lateral sepals. 



1. T. angustifolia, Benth. in Gen. Plant, iii. 515 ; leaf -blade much 

 longer than the petiole, sepals f in. linear obtuse 3-nerved, petals broader 

 linear-oblong obtuse 5-nerved, spur clavellate, lip narrowly oblong, side 

 lobes narrow, midlobe small transversely oblong, disk with 3 ridges ending 

 in as many lamelliB as the midlobe, anther with 2 bosses. Ania angusti- 

 folia, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 3740; Gen. % Sp. Orchid. 129. 



TENASSERIM: ; at Tavoy, Wallich. 



Differs from A. latifolia in the narrower leaves, larger flowers, narrower lip with 

 the lamelhe on the midlobe, and the free globosely clavellate incurved spur of the 

 lip ; " polliuia 8, 4 smaller," Lindl. 



