108 ORCH1DACEM. [ ABIDES. 



Anther depressed and with a long curved beak in front. Pollinia 

 globular, caudicle filiform, gland narrow. Capsule up to 2 in. long 

 subclavate, stoutly pedicelled. 



-Dehra Dun and Siwalik range, common on mango trees. Flowers 

 during June and July. DISTRIB. : Outer ranges of Himalaya from 

 Kangra to Nepal and Sikkim, up to about 4,000 ft. ; also found in 

 Assam, Chota Nagpur and N. Bengal. 



2. JE. odoratum, Lour. Fl. Cochin. 525 ; F. B. I. vi, 47 ; K. 

 & P. Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Calc. viii, 212, t. 282 ; Duthie id. ix 

 cart 2, 143 ; Prain Beng. PL 1020 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 701. &. 

 ornutum, Roxb.; Fl. Ind. Hi, 272. 



Stem 4- 12 -in. long, very stout. Leaves 6-12 in. long and 1-1 J in. wide 

 oblong, flat, keeled, tapering slightly to the blunt unequally bilobed 

 apex, riot contracted at the sheathing base. Racemes supra-axillary, 

 deflexed, as long as or longer than the leaves, many-flowered ; ped- 

 uncle short, stout, with short distant sheajbhs. Flowers about 1 in. 

 long, white, spotted with pink, fragrant ; floral bract broad, sheathing, 

 blunt, much shorter than the stalked ovary. Sepals unequal, obtuse, 

 spreading, the dorsal one elliptic -ovate, the lateral pair larger. 

 Petals oblong, falcate, shorter than sepals. Lip adnate to the short 

 foot of column ; side-lobes larger than the incurved almost linear 

 emarginate midlobe. Anther triangular, depressed, beaked. Pol- 

 linia globose, caudicle linear, gland quadrate. Capsule about 1J in. 

 long, fusiform. 



JDehra Dun (King, Gamble, Mackinnon) ; N. Oudh, in the Bahraich 

 district (Duthie). Flowers during July and August. DISTRIB. ; 

 Trop. Himalaya in Garhwal and Kumaon and eastwards to Nepal and 

 Sikkim ; also in E. Bengal, Chota Nagpur and the Circars ; extending 

 to Tenasserim, Malaya and China. 



16. RHTNCHOSTYLIS, Blume ; Fl. Brit. Ind. vi, 32. 



Epiphytes, without pseudobulbs. Stems elongate, stout, leafy. 

 Leaves very coriaceous, linear- oblong, truncately or bluntly 2- 

 lobed at the apex. Flowers in long drooping densely cylindric 

 racemes, showy. Sepals spreading, broad, obtuse. Petals similar 

 to the sepals bat narrower. Lip adnate to the short foot of the 

 column, the hypochile forming a deep wide pubescent sac without 

 side-lobes ; epichile obovate, acute, concave with erect margins. 

 Column short, stout, dilated at the base and with a very short 



