88 CXLVIII. ORCHIDE^:. (J. D. Hooker.) \_TJielasis. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



T. carinata, Reichb. f. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxx. 137 ; ? of Blume Bijdr. 385 & 

 Lindl. Gen. fy Sp. Orchid. 253. In the absence of flowers it is impossible to say 

 what species this may be ; it differs greatly from the figure of Blume's T. carinata 

 (from Java) in its small size, slender scape, short decurved raceme, and bracts, in all 

 which, as in foliage, it closely resembles T. decurva, and is nearer to the Moluccan 

 0. micrantha, Brong. (in Duperrey Voy. Sot. 198, t. 37 B.) than to T. carinata. 



Tribe III. NEOTTIEJE. (See vol. v., p. 668.) 

 75. GAX.EOX.A, Lour. 



Leafless, rarely leafy, yellow or brown, climbing or erect herbs ; stem or 

 branches terminating in loosely panicled often drooping racemes or 

 panicles ; flowers rather large. Sepals subequal, concave, connivent or 

 spreading. Petals as long, narrower or broader. Lip sessile at the base of 

 and loosely embracing the column by its base, short, broad, concave ; lateral 

 lobes short or 0; midlobe broad. Column short or long, incurved, top 

 dilated membranous ; anther 2-celled ; pollinia hippocrepiform, powdery 

 or subwaxy. Capsule usually 2-4 valved, without septa ; seeds winged or 

 not. Species 8 or 9, Indian, Malayan and Australian. 



* Stem simple, erect. 



1. G. Xiindleyana, Reiclib.f. Xen. OrcUd.il 78; tall, very robust, 

 sepals broadly ovate-oblong strongly ribbed dorsally, anther recurved 

 clothed with long papillae. Cyrtosia Lindleyana, Hook.f.fy Thorns, in III. 

 Himal. Plant, t. 22. Erythorchis Lindleyana, Eeiclib.f. in Bonpland, v. 

 o7. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 4-7000 ft., J. D. ff., &c. ?KHASIA HILLS, alt. 4000 ft., 

 J. D. H. Sf T. T. NAGA HILLS, Prain. 



Rootstock elongate, very stout, 1-1| in. diam., tortuous, dark pink; roots very 

 stout simple fibres. Stem 2-3 ft., glabrous, with short ^-amplexicaul obtuse sheaths 

 below, brown purple. Panicle loosely branched, branches horizontal, and yellow flowers 

 furfuraceously tomentose ; bracts small; perianth subglobose, 1 in. diarn. ; petals 

 broadly ovate, tip obtuse, crenate; lip nearly hemispheric, margins and short ex- 

 panded rounded limb erosely fimbriate, glabrous without, almost bearded within. 

 Capsule 5-6 by f in., fusiform, subacute, obtusely trigonous, red-brown, tardily 

 dehiscing. 



2. Falconer!, Hook, f. ; tall, very robust, sepals broadly ovate 

 dorsally nearly smooth, anther glabrous. Pogochilus, Falc. in Hook. 

 Jonrn. Bot. iv. (1842), 73. 



SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA; from Garwhal, Falconer, to Sikkim, Thomson, &c. 



Habit and stature of G. Lindleyana, but differing in the larger flowers and the cha- 

 racters given above. The rootstock is sometimes as thick as the wrist. Possibly only 

 a form of Lindleyana, but recognized as distinct by all collectors in Sikkim. I did 

 not find it myself. 



3. G-. javanica, Bentli. in Gen. Plant, iii. 590; dwarf, stem very 

 stout glabrous below furfuraceous above, sepals oblong membranous, 

 anther subhemispheric. Cyrtosia javanica, Bhime Bijdr. 396, t. 6 ; 

 Rumph. i. 199, t.' 69 ; Lindl. Gen. 8f Sp. Orchid. 438 ; Reichb. f. Xen. 

 Orchid, ii. 76, t. 120. 



ASSAM, Masters (Ic. in Hort. Calcutt.). DISTEIB. Java. 



