Phalcenopsis.'] CXLVIII. ORCHIDE/E. (J. D. Hooker.) 31 



1 in. diani. ; sepals and petals dull yellow greeu mottled closely with dull red for 

 the basal half; lip small, white, side lobes erect streaked with red, mid lobe red 

 purple between the ridges ; forked appendage small, with a 2-lobed callus behind 

 it ; column about half the length of the lip ; pollinia globose, strap short, cuneate, 

 gland quadrate. Described from dried flowers and a drawing of the whole plant in 

 Hort. Calcutt. 



** Lateral sepals inserted by a broad base on the elongate foot of the 

 column. 



8. P. Esmeralda, Reichb. f. in Gard. Ghron. 1874, ii. 582; lateral 

 sepals orbicular-ovate, petals broadly obovate, claw of lip long geniculate 

 with two narrow recurved auricles, side lobes broadly falcately obovate, 

 midlobe oblong. Rev. Sortie. 1877, t. 107; Warner Orchid. Alb. vii. t. 21 . 

 Floral Mag. N". S. t. 358 ; Rolfe in Gard. Chron. 1886, ii. 276 ; Orchidoph. 

 1881, t. 9. P. antennifera, Reichb. f. in Gard. Ghron. 1878, 398; 1882, 520; 

 Rolfe 1. c. 1886, ii. 276. 



BURMA, Hort. Low.- DISTRIB. Cochin China. 



Leaves 4-6 in. Scape 1-2 ft., simple or branched, slender ; rachis elongate ; 

 flowers 1 in. diam., amethystine ; side lobes of lip erect, appressed, red-purple ; 

 disk with a 2-awned callus in front of the auricles, and a raised thickened fleshy ridge 

 from the base of the side lobes to the tip of the midlobe. 



9. P. Parishii, Reichb. f. in Gard. Ghron. 1865, 410 ; 1871, 802 ; Xen. 

 Orchid, i. 144, t. 156, f . 1. in Saunders Refug. Bot. t. 85 ; flowers small, 

 lateral sepals subrotund, lip short sessile, side lobes small falcate, midlobe 

 much broader shortly stipitate reniformly cordate. Bot. Mag. t. 5815- 

 Rolfe in Gard. Ghron. 1886, ii. 276. 



EASTERN HIMALAYA, Lobb, Mann. CACHAR, Keenan. TEKASSERIM, Lobb. 



Leaves 3-5 in., linear or obovate-oblong. Scape 3-4 in., 6-8-fld. ; flowers 

 f in. diam. ; sepals and obovate petals cream-cold. ; lip mobile, purple-brown ; disk 

 with a narrow 4-awned appendage at the base overlapping a much broader ciliate 

 lamina; rostellum 3-partite. The figure in Saunders' Refug. is of var. Lobbii, R. f. 

 which has a white lip with two chestnut bands. 



SPECIES OF DOUBTFUL POSITION. 



P. FUSCATA, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1874, ii. 6; "allied to P. Cornu-cervi, 

 roots short, leaves very broad oblong obtuse acute, flowers medium-sized, sepals 

 oblong obtusely acute, petals cuneately oblong obtuse, lip 3-partite, side segments 

 ligulate retuse one toothed on each side, umbonate on the middle of the lower side, 

 mid-segment oblong acute keeled in the middle, base with a 2-toothed callus, and 

 with an aristate ligula on each side behind it, column not angled (exangulata) at the 

 base." Malayan Peninsula, Hort. Hull.- Characters from Reichenbach 1. c., who 

 does not describe the inflorescence, or whether the column has a foot or not. 



' 54. DORITIS, Lindl. 



Characters of Phalcenopsis, and having the same 2-awned plate on the 

 disk of the lip, but the column is narrowly winged, its foot longer forming 

 a spur-like mentum with the side lobes of the lip. Species 5, Indian and 

 Malayan. 



D. pulcherrima, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7348 (Gen. # Sp. Orchid. 178, Eeichb. f. 

 Xen. Orchid, ii. 7), a Siarn species, with flowers nearly 1 in. diam. in a panicle 2-3 ft. 

 long, probably occurs in the Straits region. 



1. D. taenialis, Benth. in Gen. Plant, iii. 574 ; scape short few-fld., 

 mentum acute, side lobes of lip very narrow spathulate reflexed on the 

 disk, tips of the forked appendage of the lip hooked. JCrides tu^niale, 



