106 CXLVIII. OKCHIDE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Cheirostylis. 



appendages of column subspathulate ; Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. i. 187 ; 

 Thwaites Enum. 313 (excl. in both Syn. Zeuxine) ; Dalz. in Hook. Journ. 

 Sot. iv. (1852) 112; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 271. Monochilus flabellatus, 

 Wight Ic. t. 1727. G-oodyera flabellata, A. Rich in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 2, 

 xv. 79, t. 12. 



BHOTAN HIMALAYA, Griffith. TENASSERIM, Parish. The CONCAN, Dalzel. 

 NILGHIRI HILLS, alt. 6000 ft., Wight, &c. CEYLON; Ambagamovva district, 

 Thwaites, Beckett. 



Stem sometimes moniliform below as in C. pusilla, but stouter. Leaves -f in., 

 petioled, ovate, acute. Scape 6-8 in. ; sheaths and bracts loose, acuminate; flowers 

 2-10, white, glandular-pubescent, perianth hemispheric ; petals linear-oblong, falcate ; 

 sac of lip cymbiform, with 2 calli within; base hairy, claw short with 2 green spots ; 

 column very short, appendages subterminal and rostellar arms both subspathulate ; 

 anther with a dilated membranous tip ; pollinia pyriform, subsessile on the elongate 

 lanceolate gland. 



6. C. pubescens. Parish 8f Reichb, f. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxx. 141 ; 

 scape pubescent, limb of lip 2-lobed, lobes subquadrate crenate, appendages 

 of the column cuneately obovate much shorter than the subspathulate 

 arms of the rostellum. 



TENASSEEIM ; at Moulmein, Parish. 



Stem stout, ascending. Leaves 1^-3 in., ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate ; 

 petiole slender. Scape 3-6 in. ; sheaths and bracts lax, acuminate ; raceme 3-10-fld.; 

 perianth in. long ; sepals connate to the middle ; lip with a small concave 3 -nerved 

 base, lateral nerves with one slender callus ; claw rather broad j anther truncate. 

 Capsule % in., pyriform, pedicelled. 



91. ZEUXINE, Lindl. 



Terrestrial herbs ; stem creeping below. Leaves membranous. Flowers 

 small, spicate. Sepals subequal, dorsal concave, cohering with the petals ; 

 lateral free. Lip inferior, adnate to the base of the column, cymbiform or 

 saccate with a shortly-clawed or sessile entire 2-lobed or 2-winged terminal 

 lobe ; sac with 2 calli or spurs near the base within. Column very short, 

 2-keeled or -winged in front ; stigmatic lobes 2, marginal, distant ; anther 

 membranous, cells contiguous ; pollinia pyriform, attached by an oblong 

 gland to the erect rostellum with often an intermediate appendage or a 

 linear caudicle. Species about 20, tropical Asia and Africa. 



I refer to Zeuxine those species of Hetaria that have large terminal lobes to the 

 lip. The appendage between the gland of the pollinia and the pollinia itself is a 

 very curious organ, and its real nature has not been ascertained, whether rostellar or 

 pollinar ; it occurs only in some species, and in these under very various forms, so 

 that it cannot be relied on as a generic character. It is further so difficult of 

 analysis in dried specimens, that much allowance must be made for mv description 

 of it. 



Sect. 1. EUZEUXINE, Lindl. Leaves sessile, linear-lanceolate. 



1. Z. sulcata, Lindl. Gen. Sc Sp. Orchid. 485; in Journ. Linn. Foe. i. 

 186; Griff. Notul iii. 396 : Ic. Plant. Asiat. t. 349; Blume Orchid. Archip. 

 Ind. 67 ; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 723. Z. bracteata, brevifolia, & robusta, 

 Wight Ic. 1724 bis, 1725, 1726. Z. membranacea, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. 486 ; 

 in Journ. Linn. Soc. 1. c. ; Blume Orchid. Archip. Ind. 68. Z. Tripleura, 

 Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 1. c. Z. integerrima, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. 486; 



