Odontochilus.~\ OXLVTII. ORCHIDE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 99 



2. O. calcaratus, Hook.f. Ic. Plant, ined. ; leaves very small ovate 

 acuminate, flowers 1-3, claw of lip crenate, lobes small quadrate or 

 rounded, column with a linear process descending into the cylindric or 

 incurved spur. 



PERAK, ScortecUni'-, alt. 3900 ft., Wray. 



Stem 3-5 in,, slender, flexuous, leafy. Leaves 55 in., sessile or petioled, 

 aristately acuminate. Peduncle very short, and bracts lanceolate, quite glabrous ; 

 flowers white; sepals linear, 1-nerved, lateral with the outer bases connate and 

 enclosing the spur; petals linear-lanceolate, 1-nerved; lip ^ in. long, spur half as 

 long as the sepals, with a columnar caruncle enclosed, tip straight or incurved ; 

 column short ; rostellar arms long, slender ; anfcher ovate-lanceolate ; pollinia short, 

 each attached to the gland hy a long stout caudicle. Wray describes the leaves as 

 green dashed with crimson, veined with gold, and bordered with red, the flowers 

 white. Scortechini says, leaves dark purple, sepals pale carnation, lip white. 

 This is a Mt/rmechis with the claw of lip of Odontochilus. 



3. O. pumilus, Hook. f. Ic. Plant, ined. ; leaves %-\ in. scattered 

 petioled ovate, scape 1-o-fld., bracts oblong ciliate, lateral sepals ovate 

 subacute, claw of lip crenulate, terminal lobes subquadrate. Cheirostylis 

 pusilla, in part, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. i. 188 (not of Gen. & Sp. 

 Orchid ). 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 8-10,000 ft., J. D. H., Thomson, King. 



Stem with scape 2-3 in., ascending from a prostrate base, stout for the size of the 

 plant. Leaves acute, rather thick; nerves obscure; sheaths very short. Scape 

 with one membranous ciliate sheath; flowers subglobose, in. diam., white; dorsal 

 sepal broadly ovate with an obtuse recurved tip, 1 -nerved, lateral triangular-ovate, 

 very -oblique at the base, 1-nerved; sac of lip simple, intern;\l calli very large; 

 terminal lobes shortly exserted, thick. So like Cheirostylis pusilla that it was con- 

 founded with it by Lindley. The specimens I have seen are very few, and the 

 flowers very difficult of analysis. 



** Stem elongate. Leaves \ in. or more long. Spikes few- or many-fid. 

 (ODONTOCHILUS, BL). 



4. O. crispus, Hook.f.; leaves few ovate acute, bracts shorter than 

 the glabrous ovary, claw of 2-winged lip quite entire, wings toothed much 

 larger than the sepals. Anoectochilus crispus, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. i. 180. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 5-6000 ft., Ic. Cathcart, Clarke. KHASIA HILLS ; at 

 Surureem, alt. 5000 ft., Clarke. 



Stem slender, elongate below the 2-4 leaves. Leaves f in., petiole -1 in. Spike 

 4-8-fld., rachis and ovate-lanceolate bracts pubescent ; lateral sepals i in. long, 

 dorsal much smaller ; petals dimidiate-ovate, falcate, acuminate ; claw of lip exceed- 

 ing the sepals, slender ; 2-winged limb in. diam., white; aac minute, didymous, 

 enclosed caruncles large ; column and rostellar arms very short indeed ; anther very 

 short, tip recurved ; pollinia globose, sessile at the truncate end of the very large 

 fleshy ? cuneiform caudicle ; gland minute. A Sikkim specimen of Clarke's very like 

 this has pubescent sepals, and a few minute tubercles on the claw of the lip. 



5. O. pectinatus, Hook.f. Ic. Plant, ined. ; stem leafy, leaves ovate 

 acute, spike few-fld. laxly villous, bracts as long as the ovary, claw of lip 

 pectinate, limb Innate or broadly 2-winged, sac globose, rostellar arms 

 long. 



PERAK, alt. 3-4000 ft., King's Collector; Maxwell's Hill, Wray. 

 Stem 6-12 in. Leaves l-2& in., light green, thick, fleshy, petiole - in. Spike 



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