192 CXLVIII. ORCHIDE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Supplement, fyc. 



P. 817. 3. P. MACULATTTS. After Hits. Sot. ii. 180 insert Williams Orchid. 

 Alb. t. 381, and place Slum. Orchid. Archip. 2nd. 9, after Reichb. Fl. Exot. t. 63. 



3/1. P. NANUS, Hook. f. Ic. Plant, t. 2088 ined. ; leaves 4-5 in., scape very 

 short closely sheathed, raceme dense-fld., sepals and petals lanceolate acuminate, lip 

 us broad as long puberulous within, side lobes rounded, inidlobe short broad undulate, 

 spur 0. 



BENGAL; in the Buxa Doar, Gamble (in Herb. Calcutt.). 



Pseudobulbs 0. Soots tufted; rootstock stout, with grass-like sheaths some- 

 times much longer than the leaf. Leaf elliptic, acute; petiole 2 in., stout. Scape 

 from the base of the leaf and shorter than it is, sheaths subacute ; bracts cymbiform, 

 acuminate; sepals H in. long; column short, stout, puberulous. A very singular 

 species, of which I have seen but two specimens, kindly lent from the Calcutta 

 Herbarium by Dr. King. The long grass-like sheaths or primordial leaves are 

 singular. 



P. 818. 7. P. ALBUS. Var. Bensonioe, after description insert PhajusBensonise, 

 Hemsl. in Oard. Chron. 1882, 565 j and after Jenning's Orchid, add Williams 

 Orchid. Alb. ii. t. 67. Veitch (Man. Orchid. Pt. vi. 19) does not regard ensoni&, 

 alba and Marshalliana as specifically distinct; he distinguishes Bensonice from 

 alba by the larger differently-coloured flowers, with the midlobe of the lip larger in 

 proportion to the whole lip, and more oblong, and by the wings of the column being 

 toothed. He keeps Marshalliana as a form from being usually more tall and robust, 

 the lip shorter, the hairs on the crests of the lip more numerous and longer, the 

 column shorter and stouter with the apical wings more dilated ; and as a subvar. of 

 this he maintains Reichenbach's var. ionophlebia (Gard. Chron. 1885, 70), with the 

 centre of the lip pale yellow, the sides streaked with purple. 



25. NEPHELAPHYLLUM, jBlume. 



In the generic description in the 2nd line after leaf, add, or elongate and 

 exserted ; and after 3. N. TENUIFLORUM, add 



4. N. NUDUM, HooJc.f. ; leaves ovate acuminate, scape slender much longer than 

 the leaves few-fld., bracts slender, lip elongate narrowly subpanduriform, side lobes 

 small acute, midlobe transversely oblong retuse with a short broad semicircular 

 lamella on the mibrib towards the tip. 



SIZKIM HIMALAYA ; King. 



Stem stout, 4 in., ascending. Leaves distant, 1-2 in., lower petioled, upper sessile ; 

 sheath short, membranous. Scape 6 in., with a basal and median tubular appressed 

 sheath nearly 1 in. long ; bracts ^ in., as long as the pedicel and ovary, deflexed ; 

 sepals and petals spreading, subequal, linear, subacute, 3-nerved : lip nearly 1 in. long 

 from the base of the stout truncate spur to the tip of the dorsal sepal, membra- 

 nous, 3-nerved with branching side nerves, gradually dilated upwards to the tooth-like 

 side lobes, midlobe broader than the rest of the lip, margins undulate. Near N. 

 tenuiflorum, which has also a tall scape. 



5. N. GRANDIFLOBUM, HooJc. f. ; leaves ovate deeply cordate acuminate, scape 

 longer than the leaves 2-fld., flowers 1 in. diam., lip oblong, side lobes small obtuse, 

 midlobe ovate tip rounded, disk with 3 keels from base to apex. 



PERAZ (Ic. Scortechini). MALAYA, Kunstler (Ic. in Herb. Calcutt.}. 



Leaves 3-5 by 2|-3 in., strongly nerved, basal lobes rounded, sinus narrow ; 

 petiole 3-4 in., stout. Scape with raceme 8-10 in., pubescent, sheaths tubular, 

 appressed, membranous; bracts small, lanceolate ; flowers greenish flushed with red, 

 lip purple; sepals lanceolate, acute ; petals rather broader, elliptic; lip decurved, 

 white externally, mentum truncate; column white, purple at the base. Described 

 from a fine drawing in Herb. Calcutt., perhaps (as usual with native artists) 

 exaggerated in dimensions. 



P. 820. 2. TAINIA PENANGIANA, after HooJc.f. insert Ic. Plant, t. 2089 ined. 

 6. T. LATIFOLIA, add Syn. Cymbid., Griff. Notul, iii. 343; Ic. Plant. 

 Asiat. t. 319. 



