76 CXLVIII. ORCH1DE2E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Cleisosioma. 



C. LORATUM, Reichb.f. in Flora, 1872, 273; stem short, leaves cuneately lorate 

 obliquely acuminate, racemes stout strict, flowers small, bracts small triangular 

 persistent, sepals and petals ligulate obtusely acute, side lobes of lip transverse 

 retuse with a minute callus at each internal angle, spur short hemispheric, scale 

 under column sharply 2-fid to the middle, limb ovate obtusely acute. Assam. 



ECHIOGLOSSUM STRIATUM, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1879, 390; stem erect 

 strict branched, sheaths very rough (arpophyl)aceous), leaves linear-ligulate un- 

 equally acute very coriaceous keeled towards the tip, racemes short drooping, 

 flowers small dense yellow streaked with red, sepals and narrower petals oblong 

 obtusely acute, lip obtusely conic, side lobes triangular erect, midlobe hastately 

 triangular, tip acutely 2-toothed, callus below the column ligulate, strap of pollen 

 linear, gland very large, hippocrepifonn. Sikkim Himalaya (Sort. Mackay) (Echio- 

 glossum is reduced to Cleisostoma in Gen. Plant.) 



67. ORNITHOCHILUS, Wall. 



Epiphytes : Stem very short, pseudobulb 0. Leaves few, broad, flat. 

 Scapes lateral, slender; flowers small, racemed or panicled. Sepals spread- 

 ing, subequal, lateral obliquely obovate. Petals linear. Lip much larger 

 than the sepals, clawed, side lobes subquadrate, midlobe clawed inflexed 

 lobulate and timbriate, with a velvety flap over the mouth of the 

 short incurved spur, which is distant from the base. Column short, foot 0, 

 rostellum forcipate ; anther low 2-celled, pollinia 2, subglobose or oblong, 

 grooved, strap obcuneate. Species 1 or 2, Indian and Chinese. 



0. fuscus, Wall, in Lindl. Gen. <$f Sp. Orchid. 242. O. cublepharum, 

 Hance in Journ. Bot. xxii. (1884), 364. Aerides difforme, Wall, in Lindl. 

 1. c. 242, Sert. Orchid. Frontisp. f. 7; Reichb.f. in Gard. Chron. 1865, 698 ; 

 Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 41 ; Walp. Ann. vi. 899 ; A. Hystrix. Lindl. 

 in J. L. 8. 42 (not of Gen. $ Sp. Orchid.). 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA ; from Garwhal ? Falconer, to SIKKIM, and the KHASIA 

 HILLS, alt. 4-5000 ft. TEXASSEUIM ; at Moulmein, Parish. DISTRIB. China. 



Stem -| in., 2-3-leaved. Leaves 3-7 by 1-li in., obliquely elliptic-oblong, 

 acute, many nerved, base narrowed. Racemes simple or sparingly branched, 6-12 in., 

 lax-fld. ; bracts small, subulate ; flowers i- in. broad ; sepals and petals yellow 

 streaked witli red ; side lobes of lip striped with brown, midlobe variable in breadth, 

 red, its lobules reflexed, the uiid-oue entire or timbriate. Capsule 1 in., fusiform, 

 pedicelled. 



68. TJENXOPHYXiXiUBX, Blume. 



Small stemless epiphytes, leafless when flowering, roots flattened) 

 pseudobulbs 0. Leaves linear or few or 0. Peduncle very short, filiform, 

 simple, flowers very minute, spicate. Sepals and petals subequal, free or 

 connate at the base. Lip sessile, saccate or spurred; side lobes short, 

 broad, midlobe small fleshy. Column short, broad, foot 0; anther 2- 

 celled ; pollinia 4, in superposed pairs, strap linear, gland small. Species 

 about 6, Indian, Malayan, Australian and Pacific. 



There are several Perak plants in Scortecbini collections that are probably Tanio- 

 phylla; but the species are obscure, minute, and very imperfectly known, and there 

 are no doubt many to be discovered. 



1. T. Alwisii, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 42 ; peduncle glabrous, 

 sepals and petals connate, lip cymbiform. Tkwaites Enum. 305. ReicTib. 

 f. Xen. Orchid. 67, t. 116. 



