Cheirostylis.~\ CXLVIII. ORCHIDK^. (J. D. Hooker.) 105 



* Appendages of column as long as the rostellum. 



1. Ci pusilla, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 489 ; in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 iii. 188 (in part) ; glabrous, leaves very small ovate, raceme 2-3-fld., limb 

 of lip 2-lobed, lobes quadrate deeply toothed. Etaeria pusilla, Wall. Cat. 

 7392. Zeuxine moniliformis, Griff. Notul. iii. 397; Ic. Plant. Asiat. 

 t. 350. 



KHASIA HILLS, alt. 4-5000 ft., Wallich, &'c. 



Stem 3-6 in., prostrate below, often moniliform from the swollen internodes. 

 Leaves -i- % in., scattered, acute acuminate or aristate ; petiole short. Scape 1-3 in. ; 

 sheaths and bracts oblong-lanceolate, ciliate ; flowers inclined, | in. long; sepals 

 pink, obtuse ; petals spathulate ; lip white, base shortly saccate, nerves with a few 

 fleshy setae within, claw finely hairy towards the tip ; columnar appendages fleshy, 

 as long as the rostellar arms ; anther lanceolate ; pollinia pyriform, gland very Ions'. 

 Closely resembles Odontochilus pumilus, and was confounded with it by Lindley. 



2. C. malleifera. Parish & Reichb. f. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxx. 

 141 ; glabrous, leaves very small ovate acute, raceme 3 5-fld., lobes of lip 

 entire. 



TENASSEEIM ; on Zwakabin, Parish. 



Very like C. pusilla, but there is no appearance in the specimens of a moniliform 

 stem, leaves rather larger, flowers not half the size, lip with a longer and shallower 

 base, and quite entire somewhat hatchet-shaped lobes ; anther with a dilated 

 membranous apex. 



3. C. G-riffithii, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. i. 188 ; scape pubescent, 

 flowers 1-3 large, limb of lip reniform laciniate, appendages of column linear. 

 Goody era No. 9, Griff. Notul. iii. 393. 



KHASIA HILLS, alt. 4-5000 ft., Griffith, Lolb, Clarke. PEGU, Kurz (in Herb. 

 Calcutt.). TENASSERIM ; on Mt. Tungoo, Parish. 



Stem below prostrate. Leaves 1 in., shortly petioled, ovate, acuminate; sheaths 

 very large, cupular, hyaline. Scape 3-8 in., slender ; sheaths and bracts large, 

 loose, lanceolate ; 'flowers nearly 1 in. long with the ovary, white with 2 green spots 

 on the lip ; sepals connate to the middle ; petals narrowly spathulate ; base of lip 

 elongate, concave, with 2 series of glandular setae within; claw short. Capsule 

 | in., pedi celled, pyriform. 



4. C. parvifolia, Lindl. in Sot. Reg. 1839, Misc. 19; Gen. & Sp. 

 Orchid. 488; in Journ. Linn, Soc. i. 187; raceme puberulous lax-fld., 

 flowers minute, limb of lip subquadrate 6-8-lobed, appendages of the 

 column dilated upwards rather short. Thwaites Enum. 313. 



CEYLON ; Ambagamowa district rare, Thwaites. 



A span high. Leaves 23 about the middle of the slender stem, ^-1^ in., ovate- 

 lanceolate, acuminate. Scape slender, puberulous ; raceme 8-10-fld. ; bracts as 

 long as the short pedicels ; sepals | in. long, glabrous, pink ; petals oblong-obovate, 

 obtuse, white ; lip with a subsaccate base containing 2 small forked calli, limb 

 white ; column very short, rostellar arms subulate ; anther ovate-cordate ; pollinia 

 pyriform, caudicle very short, gland linear. The specimens are very poor, and the 

 species is perhaps better placed in the following section. 



** Appendages of column shorter than the short rostellum, rarely 

 as long. 



5. C. flabellata, Wight Ic. v. 16 ; scape glandular-pubescent, flewers 

 subcorymbose, limb of lip suborbicular deeply 2-cleft, lobes sub 5-fid, 



