SarcocMlm."] OXLVIII. ORCHIDEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) 43 



2 spurs or horns ; anther incompletely 2-celled ; pollinia 2, globose, strap 

 rather short, gland moderate. Species 3 or 4 ? Malayan. 



In the absence of good materials, I am doubtful as to the correctness of the above 

 definition of Trichoglottis. Bentham refers Blume's T. retusa to Saccolabium ; and 

 by replacing that author's character of " lip adnate to the whole length of the 

 column, with a process on each side," by "lip adnate to the foot of the column and 

 forming with it a long horizontal spur-like mentum " and omitting that of a hairy 

 lip, he excludes the others. I am disposed to regard the hairy-lipped species figured 

 by Blume in his Bijdragen (T. retusa, 360, fig. viii.) as the type of the genus. That 

 this is Kurz's and Reichenbach's view appears from the plants they have referred to 

 it. In this case Trichoglottis is referable to the group with no foot to the column. 

 There are amongst Scortechini's drawings of Perak Orchids, one or two that are 

 referable to this genus, but the analyses are insufficient. 



1. T. Dawsoniana, ReicJib. f. in G-ard. Chron. 1872, 699 ; flowers 

 panicled pale green spotted with brown or purple, sepals and petals cuspi- 

 date on the back below the concave tip, lip saccate at the base tip 2-fid. 

 Cleisostoma Dawsoniana, ReicJib. f. in Grard. Chron. 1868, 815. 



TENASSERIM ; at Moulmein, Parish. 



Stem l-2 f ft., stout, rooting. Leaves few 3-6 by f 1 in.. Panicle 18 in., erect, 

 stiff, branches spreading ; bracts broadly ovate ; pedicel with ovary ^ in. ; flowers 

 1-1 in. diam. ; anther 2-lobed, crested ; pollinia large, strap short slender. Near 

 T.fasciata, R. f., erroneously supposed to be a native of Ceylon, of which there is a 

 fine drawing in Hort. Calcutt., giving Manilla as the habitat. 



2. T. quadricornuta, Kurz in Journ. Beng. As. Soc. xlv. 156, 

 t. 13 ; glabrous, leaves linear-lanceolate subsessile acuminate, flowers 

 solitary or 3-4-panicled, sepals obovate-oblong obtuse, petals similar but 

 narrower, lip strongly arched inflexed 2 posterior lobes acute twice as long 

 as the basilar, with a hirsute callus between them, terminal lobes reflexed 

 linear 2-fid, with a callus under the tip, spur subobtuse rather longer than 

 the midlobe. 



NICOBAR ISLANDS ; forests of Kamorta, Kurz. 



Leaves 2-3^ in., base narrowed, twisted. Flowers leaf-opposed; pedicel ^ in.j 

 sepals I in. long, lateral subfalcate ; column very short; pollinia globose. Description 

 from Kurz 1. c., 1 have seen no flowers. 



58. JERXDES, Lour. 



Epiphytes ; stem leafy, pseudobulbs 0. Leaves linear, coriaceous. 

 Flowers usually many and highly coloured, in dense or lax decurved racemes 

 (few large or sessile in Sect. 1.). Sepals broad, spreading, lateral adnate to 

 the base or foot of the column. Petals broad, spreading. Lip spurred, 

 side lobes large small or ; midlobe larger than the side lobes or smaller 

 and incurved between them. Column short, foot long or short, rostellum 

 short or long and bifid ; anther 2-celled, beaked or not, pollinia 2, globose, 

 sulcate; strap long or short, gland large or small. Species about 10, 

 Eastern Asiatic. 



I am indebted for aid in determining the cultivated species of Sect. ii. & iii. to 

 Messrs. Veitch for specimens, and to great knowledge of his assistant, Mr. Kent, 

 and of Mr. Rolfe (of the Kew Herbarium) for valuable information respecting them. 



Sect. I. Leaves terete, grooved in front. (See also JE". mitratum.} 

 Peduncle 1-2-fld. Spur slightly incurved, with a callus half way down 

 the tube. Anther shortly beaked. 



