94 CXLVIII. ORCHIDB^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Tropidia. 



subulate, lip ovate intramarginai lamellae continuous to the base of the 

 reflexed apex. Cnemidia circuligoideg, Thwaites Enum. 315 (not of 

 Lindl.}. 



CEYLON ; in hot dry places, Macrae, Thwaites. 



Stem 6-12 in., slender. Leaves 3-6 by f in., narrowly linear-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, 3-5-nerved. Peduncle 1 in., naked; spike % in.; bracts rather longer 

 than the smooth ovaries ; flowers -J i in. long ; sepals with very thick midnerves, 

 dorsal oblong 3-nerved, lateral ovate-lanceolate acuminate 5-nerved; petals oblong, 

 obtuse, 3-nerved j lip rather thick. 



IMPERFEC i LY KNOWN SPECIES. 



CNEMIDIA BAMBUS^FOLIA, Thwaites Enum. 314 ; stem 2-3 ft., leaves few 6-8 

 by li-2^ in. elliptic-lanceolate caudate-acuminate 5-nerved, spike terminal sessile 

 | in. long, bracts crowded lanceolate lower narrower -^ in. long. 



CEYLON ; Suffragan district, Thwaites. Descript. from Thwaites. 



TKOPIDIA sp. (T. curculigoldes, Kurz, from the Andaman Islands), a small slender 

 species, with lanceolate subacute 3-nerved leaves 2-3 by \^ in. 



TEOPIDIA sp. ; from Sikkim, alt. 1500 ft. (King in Herb. Calcutt.). Resembles 

 T. curculigoides, but is much larger, with 7-9-nerved leaves 7-11 in. long by 2-2 

 broad, and small fruit in. long. 



79. PH1TSUKUS, Richard. 



Terrestrial, leafy herbs ; stem below creeping ; roots fibrons. Leaves 

 petioled, membranous, ovate or lanceolate. Flowers small, spicate. Sepals 

 free, dorsal smaller forming a hood with the petals. Lip erect from the 

 base of the column, spreading or recurved; spur exserted beyond the 

 bases of the sepals. Column very short, not appendaged in front, rostellum 

 2-fid ; stigma anticous, prominent ; anther erect, 2-celled ; polHnia 

 2, clavate. Species about 20, Asiatic and American. 



1. P. Blume i, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7397; G-en. $ Sp. Orchid. 504; 

 in Journ. Linn. Soc. i. 181 ; bracts equalling the ovary, lip short, terminal 

 lobe transversely oblong entire, spur much shorter than the ovary 2-lobed. 

 Thwaites Enum. 314. P. humilis, Blume Orchid. Archip. t. 27, f. 2. 



SILHET, Wallich. CEYLON; in the Central Province, Macrae, &c. DISTEIB. 

 Java. 



Stem 1-2 ft., slender, glabrous below. Leaves scattered, 2| 3 in., petioled, 

 obliquely ovate or subcordate, acute, 3-nerved. Scape pubescent ; sheaths distant, 

 finely acuminate; spike 25 in., villous; sepals ^ in. long, brownish-red, obtuse, 

 1-nerved ; petals spathulate, 1-nerved ; lip white, contracted at the base of the ter- 

 minal lobe, spur subcylindric or inflated, nerves strong hooked. 



2. P- hirsutus, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. i. 180; tall, stout, 

 villously hirsute, leaves ovate acuminate 7-nerved subglaucous beneath, 

 base acute. Goodyera hirsuta, Griff. Notul. iii. 393 ; Ic. Plant. Asiat. 

 t. 347. 



ASSAM ; on the Burmese frontier, Griffith. 



Stem as thick as a goose quill. Leaves 4-5 in., oblique. Sepals, petals, and 

 lip brownish, blade of the latter white. A very imperfectly known plant, of 

 which there are no specimens in Griffiths' Herbarium at Kew. 



80. AN2ECTOCHILUS, Blume. 



Terrestrial herbs ; stem below creeping. Leaves petioled, ovate or 

 lanceolate. Flowers in glandular-pubescent spikes. Sepals free, dorsal 



