ORNITHOCHILUS. ] ORCHIDACE& 205 



Pseudoslem short. Leaves 12-18 in. long, linear-oblong, obtuse, fleshy, 

 obliquely notched at the apex, slightly expanded at the sheathing 

 base. Inflorescence shorter than the leaves ; peduncle 3-4 in. long, 

 bearing several tubular acute scarious sheaths near the base. Flowers 

 yellowish -red, in many flowered drooping racemes 9-15 in. long ; 

 floral bracts ovate, J-J in. long ; pedicels with ovary j in. Sepals 

 subequal, oblanceolate-oblong, obtuse ; lateral pair subfalcate. Petals 

 as long as sepals, obtuse. Lip purplish, equalling the sepals, 3- 

 lobed, its upper surface with two stout lamellae broken and discon- 

 nected in the middle ; lateral lobes narrow, blunt, entire ; midlobe 

 ovate-oblong, decurved. Column slighty thickened at the apex. 

 Anther subquadrate, papillose. Pollinia 2, small ; gland crescent- 

 shaped. 



N. Oudh, in the Bahraich district (Duthie). Flowers during Apri 

 and May. DISTRIB. : Nepal Terai and Trop. Himalaya eastwards 

 to Sikkim and Assam ; also in W. and S. India, extending to Ceylon, 

 Tenasserim, the Andaman Islands and Malay Peninsula. 



13. ORNITHOCHILUS, Wall.; Fl. Brit. Ind. vi, 76. 



Epiphytic, without pseudo bulbs. Stem very short. Leaves 

 few, crowded, broadly oblong, softly coriaceous. Inflorescence 

 supra-axillary, racemose or in panicles. Sepals subequal, spread- 

 ing, incurved at the apex, lateral ones obliquely obovate. Petals 

 smaller, cune ate -oblong, blunt. Lip much longer than sepals, 

 adnate to foot of the column by a long broad claw with a rectangu- 

 larly bent subcylindric spur at its junction with the terminal lobe ; 

 side-lobes shallow, subquadrate ; terminal with three lobules ; 

 the two lateral recurved and pectinate ; the central one triangular, 

 entire or infolded ; mouth of spur closed by two calli projecting 

 from its back and front walls, the latter hairy. Column short, 

 cylindric, with a short foot ; rostellum short ; stigma circular, 

 surrounded by a hairy rim. Anther oblong ; pollinia 2, subglobose 

 caudicle broad, obcuneate ; gland large. Species 1 or 2, Indian 

 and Chinese. 



O. fusous, Wall, in Lindl. Gen. and Spec. Orch. 242 ; F. B. /. 

 vi, 76 ; K. & P. in Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Calc., viii, 200 9 1. 268 ; Duthie 

 id ix, part 2 9 139. 

 Leaves 3-7 in. long, oblong or ovate-lanceolate, obliquely tapering to 



the acute apex and narrowed to the sessile sheathing base, fleshy, 



