46 OXLVIII. ORCHIDE^:. (J. D. Hooker.) [jErides. 



Ic. t. .1677 bis. ; Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 41 ; Wall. I. c. 879. A. 

 Brookeii, Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 1841, 518 ; 1842, 559 ; Satem. in Sot. 

 Reg. 1841, Misc. 55; Paxt. Mag. Sot. ix. t. 145; Flare des Serres, t. 151. 

 A. Warneri, llort. 



WESTERN GHATS ; from the Concan to Travancore. 



Stem 4-10 in., very stout. Leaves 4-8 in., from oblong to lorate, variable in 

 breadth, thickly coriaceous, lobes unequal rounded. Racemes 8-12 in., inclined or 

 drooping, simple or branched; pedicels very robust; flowers 1^ in. diam., sweet- 

 scented ; sepals and petals very broad, pale rose ; lip geniculately iuflexed at the 

 claw, rose or purple, 2-cornute at the base ; spur much shorter than the blade, and 

 projecting forwards under it ; anther long-beaked, strap of pollinia slender below, 

 dilated above. Capsule LJ-2 in., clavate or pyrifonn, angles subalate. I find no 

 character whereby to separate dE. Lindleyanum. Lindley says of ^E. Brookeii, 

 more odorous than JEJ. odoratum. 



9. 2E. falcatum, Lindl. in Paxt. Fl. Gard. ii. 142 ; side lobes of lip 

 half as long as the clawed midlobe dimidiate oblong or falcate, rnidlobe 

 ovate or ovate-cordate sides replicate erose, spur parallel to the midlobe 

 and concealed under it. Reichb. f. Xen. Orchid, i. 220, t. 92 ; Morren 

 Belg. Hortic. 1876, 288 ; Walp. Ann. vi. 897. M. Larpentae, Sort. MaJcoy 

 Prix Cour. 1862 ; Reichb. f. in Otto & Dietr. Gartenz. 1856, 219. M. retro- 

 fractum, Wall. mss. 



TENASSEEIM, Wallich, Parish, &c. 



Stem 6-8 in., robust. Leaves 8-12 by 1-1 1- in. Raceme decurved or pendulous, 

 lax-fid.; flowers l-l|i in. diarn., white, pale-violet, purple or pink; sepals and 

 petals often, tipped with a darker shade, and lip usually darker ; lateral sepals with 

 a very broad base ; column beaked ; foot elongate; anther long-beaked; strap of 

 polliuia slender, gltmd small. 



10. JE. crassifolium, Par. & Reichb. f. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxx. 145 ; 

 characters of ^E. falcatum, but much more robust, with shorter leaves, 

 dark purple flowers and the spur geniculate "at the base and not' hidden 

 under the midlobe of 'the lip. Reichb. f. in Gard. ' Cliron. 1877, i. 633, and 

 ii. 492, fig. 96; Otia Hamburg. 43; Warner Sel. Orchid. Ser. 3, t. 12. 

 M. expansum, Reichb. f. 1. c. 1882, ii. 40. 



TENASSEKIIT ; at Moulmein, Parish. 



Very nearly allied to JE. falcatum, the chief difference being the form of the 

 spur and that the sides of the midlobe of the lip are so reflected as that their under 

 surfaces meet. Var. Leonce, Reichb. f. ;n Bull. Soc. Tor. d'Orticult. x. t. 14; 

 Williams' Orchid. Man. t. 14, is described as having retuse side lobes of the lip and 

 an expanded midlobe. 



** Lip deflexed. 



11. IE. radicosum, A. Rich, in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. xv. 65, t. i. c. ; 

 stem short very stout, leaves 4-10 by -li in. unequally 2-lobed, racemes 

 or panicles verv stout rarely exceeding the leaves, sepals orbicular and 

 rather smaller "petals 5-nerved, side lobes of lip minute, midlobe ovate, 

 disk with 2 large basal calli, spur longer than the sepals stout incurved 

 obtuse. Saccolabium Wightianum, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7303 (in part) ; 

 Gen. 3f Sp. Orchid. 221 (excl. Syn.) ; in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 36 (excl. 

 Khasia] ; Wight Ic. t. 917. S. rubrum, Wight Ic. 1673 (not of Lindl.). 

 S. ringens, mdZ. in Wall Cat. 7313; Gen. $ Sp. Orchid. 220; in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. iii. 36 ; Walp. Ann. vi. 884. 



The DECCAN PENINSULA; on the Nilghiri and Pulney Hills, and at Quilon, 

 Wight, &c. 



Stem as thick as the thumb. Leaves leathery, rigid, mottled with purple in 



