32 CXLVIII. ORCHIDE^:. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Doritis. 



Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 239 ; in Journ. Linn. Soc, iii. 41. -33. carnosum, 

 Griff. Notul. iii. 365 ; Ic. Plant. Asiat. t. 338 A. 



SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA ; from Kumaon, alt. 3-6000 ft., eastwards to BHOTAN, 

 the KHASIA MTS., MTJNNIPORE and BURMA. 



Roots 1-3 ft., flat, -3- in. broad, forming large tortuous tufts. Leaves few, 3-5 in., 

 obovate-oblong, obtuse or subacute, narrowed to the sessile base, soft when dry. 

 Scape 1-2 in. ; bracts small, broad ; flowers f in. diam., mauve purple ; midlobe of 

 lip dark red or purple. Capsule 1^ in., fusiform. 



2. D. Wigrhtii, Benth. in Gen. Plant, iii. 574; scape elongate simple 

 or branched, side lobes of spreading lip broad cnneate-obovate, midlobe 

 obcordate. Phalsenopsis Wightii, Reichb.f. in Bot. Zeit. 1862, 214. brides 

 latifolium, Thwaites Enum. 430. 



EASTERN HIMALAYA; Sikkim (Ic. in Hort. Calculi.) ; Bhotan, Lister. CHITTA- 

 GONG- (Hort. Calcutt.}. BURMA ; Moulmein, Parish; Mougong, Griffith. The 

 CIROARS, Reyne. MALABAR, Wight, &c. CEYLON, Thwaites. 



Habit of D. tcenialis, but leaves rather larger, scape much longer, and lip very 

 different. 



55. RH1TNCHOSTYX.IS, Blume. 



Epiphytic, stem stoat leafy, pseudobulbs 0. Leaves very thick, linear, 

 2-lobed. Flowers in long dense drooping cylindric racemes, bright-cold. 

 Sepals and broader petals obtnse, spreading, contracted at the base. Lip 

 adnate to the base of the column, deeply saccate, mouth of sac pubescent 

 within, side lobes 0, outer margin produced into a clawed dilated limb. 

 Column short stout, foot ; rostellum shortly beaked ; anther imperfectly 

 2-celled ; pollinia 2, subglobose, 2-cleft, strap filiform, gland small. 

 Species 2 or 3, Indian or Malayan. 



R. retusa, Blume Bijdr. 286, t. 49 ; leaves deeply channelled keeled 

 praemorse or retuse, raceme drooping, sac cylindric much longer than the 

 limb of the lip. R. prsemorsa, Blume 1. c. R. guttata, Reichb.f. in Bonpland. 

 ii. 93. R. G-arwalica, Reichb.f. in Walp. Ann. vi. 888. Saccolabium gutta- 

 tum, Lindl. in Wall. Gat. 7308 ; Gen. $ Sp. Orchid. 220 ; in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. iii. 32 ; Bot, Mag. t. 4108 ; Wight Ic. t. 1745-6 : Dalz. # Gibs. Bomb. 

 Fl. 263; Hartm. Parad. ii. t. 3; Orchidoph. 1888, 273 (var. gigantea] ; De 

 Vriese Orchid, t. 14. Warner Sel. Orchid, Ser. 2, t. 18 ; Griff. Ic. PI. Asiat. 

 t. 819. S. praemorsum, Lindl. I. c. 221. S. Rheedii, Wight Ic. v. 19. S. 

 retusum, Fl. des Serres xiv. 191,t. 1463-4. S. Heathii, Sort., ex Gard. Chron. 

 1885, 369. S.Blumei,LiWZ. Sert. t. 47 ; in Bot. Reg. 1841, Misc. 55 ; lll.Hortic. 

 t. 545 ; Puydt. t. 37 ; Warner Orchid. Alb. 1. 169 and t. 238 (var.) ; Pescator. 

 t. 21. S. garwalicum, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 32; in Gard. Chron. 

 1879, 102. Sarcanthus guttatus, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1443. brides gut- 

 tatum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 471 ; Regel Gartenjl. 1863, 415. M. retusum, 

 Swartz in Schrad. Diar. 1799, 130; Willd. Sp. PI iv. 130; Grah. Cat. 

 Bomb. PL 204. M. spicatum, DonProdr. 31. Al. praemorsum, Willd. I. c. 

 Limodorum retusum, Swartz in Nov. Act. Upsal. vi. 80. Epidendrum 

 retusum, Linn. Sp. PI. 1351. E. Hippium, Herb\Ham. Rheede Hort.\Mal. 

 xii. t. 1. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA, from Garwhal eastwards to Assam and Tenasserim, and 

 southwards to BENGAL, the WESTERN PENINSULA and CEYLON. DISTRIB. Malay 

 Islands. 



Stem stout, creeping in trees. Leaves 6-20 by f-2 in., curved. Racemes 4-18 in. ; 

 bracts broad, obtuse, membranous ; flowers ^-f in. diam., white blotched with piak or 

 violet; lateral sepals gibbously orbicular-ovate, obtuse or apiculate, dorsal oblong ; 



