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Jour ii. Linn. Soc. iii. 22. A. Griffithii, Reichb. f. in Bonpland. ii. 90; in 

 Allg. (itu'tcitztit. 1856, 218; in Walp. Ann. vi. 471. Antliog., Griff. Nutul. 

 iii. 383 ; Ic. PI. Aslat. t. 345. 



TKMPEHATE HIMALAYA ; Nepal, Wallich ; Sikkim, alt. 7500ft., Treutler. KIIASIA 

 and NAGA HILLS, alt. 4-6000 ft., Griffith, &c. TENASSEEIM ; at Moulmein, Lubb. 



Pseudolndb size of a hazel or walnut. Leaves 6-12 by -1 in., on a slender stem, 

 lanceolate. Scape equalling or exceeding the leaves, slender; bracts very small; 

 pedicel with ovary -|-1 in., at right angles to the perianth, both rose-cold. ; tube of 

 perianth f in. long, 2-3 times as long as the free parts ; limb of lip cuueate or 

 recurved, obscurely lobed, spotted with bright red. Capsule 1 in., fusiform. 



28. JOSEPHIA, Wight. 



Epiphytic stemless tufted herbs ; root fibres very stout. Leaves 

 radical, rigidly coriaceous. Floiuers very small, on the branches of panicled 

 spikes. Sepals broad, subequal, concave, connivent. Petals narrower. 

 Lip adnate to the base of the colunm, erect, fleshy, concave ; lateral lobes 

 small, erect ; midlobe small, entire, papillose, with a basal callus uniting 

 the side lobes. Column erect, broad, nearly as long as the sepals, shortly 

 2-winged above, foot 0; anther acuminate, 2-celled.; pollinia 4, oblong, 

 parallel, subcaudate, attached to the rosteilum by a viscus. 



1. J. lanceolata, Wight Ic. t. 1742 ; leaves petioled linear-oblong or 

 -lanceolate subacute. Walp. Ann. vi. 924. Polystachya ramosa, Gardn. mss. 



WESTEEN GIIATS ; from the Coucan, Stocks, &c., to Travancore, Wight, &c. 

 CEYLON ; abundant in the Central Province. 



Leaves 3-5 in., narrowed into a petiole -i-2 in., young clothed - with hyaline 

 sheaths. Scape 4-12 in.,, slender, and its branches stifl'; bracts short, ovate, ap- 

 pressed ; flowers % in. broad, white tinged with purple ; sepals obtuse. Inflorescence 

 like that of a Statice. Wight, on Jerdon's authority, mentions the curious fact of 

 the persistent continuously flowering spikes. 



2. J. latifolia, Wight Ic. t. 1743 ; leaves subsessile broadly oblong 

 obtuse. Walp. Ann. vi. 924. 



TEAVANCOEE ; on the Pulney Mts., Wight. NILGHIEI HILLS; Wynaad, Jerdon 

 (Ic. In Herb. Kew} . 



Habit of J. lanceolata, but* leaves much broader, more coriaceous, and with a 

 much stouter shorter petiole, purple beneath ; flowers yellow with purple stripes, 

 and tip of lip. I have no materials for describing the flowers. 



29. GLOMERA, Blume. 



This genus, which I erroneously believed to be British Indian when I drew up the 

 Key to the Genera, p. 670, is as hitherto known confined to the Malayan Archipelago 

 and Pacific. It consists of two species, and is distinguished from Agroxtopliylluru 

 solely by having only 4 pollinia. Some of the following species of the latter genus, 

 of which I have not seen the pollen, may prove to belong to it. 



30. AGROSTOPHYXiXiUBX, Blume. 



Epiphytes with tufted sheathed flattened leafy stem. Leaves distichous, 

 linear ; sheaths flattened, persistent. Flowers very small, white, crowded in 

 sessile terminal heads, mixed with long paleaceous bracts, rarely in small 

 racemes. Sepals erect, conniving, concave ; lateral broader, aduate to the 

 foot of the column. Petals narrow or broad. Lip adnate to the short 

 foot of the column, short, erect, entire or 3-tid. Column short, stout, 

 thickened above ; anther 2-celled ; polliuia 8, ovoid, free or connected in 



