364 ORCHiDE^. [Aoj)la. 



high, with a few sheathing scales. Mowers 3 to 6, distant. Bracts small. 

 Sepals oval-oblong, 2|- lines long, the upper one arched over the linear petals, 

 the 2 lower spreading. Labelluni linear, entire, 3 lines long, the 2 processes 

 at its base almost hooked. Anther-cells very divergent. Pollen-masses with 

 long caudicles. 



Hongkong, Harland and Hance. Also in Nepal. 



27. CYPRIPEDIUM, Linn. 



Sepals and petals spreading, the 2 lowest often united into one under the 

 labelluni. Labellum large, inflated. Column very short, terminating in a 

 dilated incurved petal-like lobe, with 2 distinct 2-celled anthers, one on each 

 side. Pollen granidar. — Herbs with fibrous rhizomes. Leaves radical or on 

 the stems. Plowers large, solitary or few in a terminal raceme or panicle. 



A considerable Asiatic and N. American genus, with one species extending into Europe. 



1. C* purpuratum, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1991 ; Gen. et Sp. Orch. 530; 

 Bot. Mag. t. 4901. Khizome shortly creeping, with thick succulent fibres. 

 Leaves radical, oblong, 4 to 5 in. long, marked with darker-coloured blotches. 

 Scape 8 in. to 1 ft. high, pubescent, bearing a single large flower with a 

 sheathing bract at the base. Upper sepal very broad, acuminate, about 1^ in. 

 long, white, with purple veins. Lower ones united in a single oblong-lanceo- 

 late one. Petals oblong, \\ in. long, pui-ple, fringed with a few small hairs, 

 without the tubercles of C. barbatum. Labellum also pui-ple, full 1^ in. long, 

 broadly inflated. 



In moist ravines, ou the hills, Champion and others ; also in Khasia (and in the Malayan 

 Peninsula?). 



Order CXIL BURMANNIACE^. 



Flowers hermaphrodite, regular. Perianth superior, persistent, tubular or 

 campanulate, usually 6-lobed, the 3 inner lobes often smaller or sometimes 

 wanting. Stamens 3 or 6, inserted in the tube and shorter than the perianth. 

 Anthers 2-celled. Ovary inferior, 3-celled, or with 3 parietal placentas and 

 numerous ovules. Style single, with 3 entire or 2-lobed usually radiating 

 stigmas. Pruit a capsule. Seeds minute. Embi-yo apparently homogeneous. 

 — Herbs. Leaves usually radical or nearly so, or reduced to scales. Flowers 

 terminal, solitary or several, in spikes, racemes, cymes, or umbels. 



A small tropical Order, common to the New and the Old World. 



1. GONYANTHES, Miers. 



Perianth tubular, 3 -angled or wanged, the 3 inner lobes minute (or want- 

 ing?). Anthers 3, nearly sessile below the inner lobes. Ovary 3-celled. 

 Capsule opening by transverse fissures opposite the cells. — Delicate leafless 

 herbs. Flowers terminal, solitary or cymose. 



A small tropical Asiatic genus, differing from Burmannia only in the dehiscence of the 

 capsule. 



1. G. Wallichii, Mkrs in Linn. Trans, xviii. 537, iJ. 38, /. 2. Stem 

 filiform, 1 to 3 in. high, either simple with a single terminal blue flower, or 



