OBERONIA. 11 
Ріглте 12.— Oberonia myriantha, Lindl. A plant, of natural sise. Fig. 1 front view of a flower, 
2 column, 3 floral bract, 4 anther, 5 and 6 pollinia; all enlarged. 
14, ОвЕвомА PARVULA, King and Pantling in Journ. As. бос. Beng., Vol. LXIV, 
pt. 2, p. 330. 
Whole plant under two inches in height, not tufted, or only very slightly so. 
Leaves two or three, lanceolate, acute, “5 to nearly 1 in. long, and 712 to ‘25 in. 
broad. Inflorescence erect, twice as long as the leaves; the pediuncle slender, ebracteate, 
about half as long as the thickened terete tapering raceme; floral bract equalling the 
shortly-stalked ovary, oblong-lanceolate, sub-mucronate, the edges crenulate, Flowers 
minute (‘06 in. long), crowded but not whorled. Sepals ovate, sub-acute, the upper one 
entire; the lateral pair rather larger and more spreading, keeled and with wavy edges. 
Petals oblong, truncate, entire, spreading, pale yellow and translucent like the sepals. 
Lip reddish-brown, broadly obovate in general outline, with a concavity near the base, 
3-lobed; the lateral lobes small, apically-pointing, falcate-triangular, sub-acute; the 
terminal lobe long, deeply bifid, its sub-faleate lobules separated by a deep wide sinus 
mucronate at its apex. Stigma convex. 
In the Teesta Valley, at Guru Bathan, elevation 1,500 feet; Pantling No. 203; in 
flower in February. 
This, like 0. lobulata, has a convex stigma. 
Pirate 6B.—Oberonia parvula, King and Pantling. Two plants, of natural sise. Fig. 1 front 
view of & flower, 2 floral bract, flattened out, 3 anther, 4 pollinia; all enlarged. 
15. OBERONIA CAULESCENS, Lind]. Fol. Orchid., Oberonia 7. 
Siems 1 to 2 in. long. Leaves about five, linear-ensiform, acute or acuminate, 
rather fleshy, °5 to 1 in. long and °15 to:2 in. broad. Inflorescence erect, not adnate 
to a leaf, twice as long as the longest leaf; its peduncle terete, short, bracteate; the 
raceme slender. Flowers reddish-brown, minute (‘05 in. long), verticillate in the lower 
three-fourths of the raceme, sparse and irregular in the upper fourth ; floral bract equal in 
length to the stalked ovary, lanceolate, its apex aristate. Sepals ovate, sub-acnte, entire, 
Petals lanceolate, acute, entire, spreading like the sepals. Гір nearly three times as 
long as the sepals, 3-lobed and with a-small deep. elliptic depressed nectary at its 
base just below the column; lateral lobes triangular-falcate, their apices pointing 
forwards ; terminal lobe deeply cleft at its apex into two caudate-acuminate sub-paral- 
lel lobules separated by a deep narrow sinus mucronate at its apex. Lip of anther 
acute. Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 1950; Gen. and Spee. Orchid., 15; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. V, 
683, Malaxis caulescens, Reichb. fil. in Walp. Ann. VI, 215. 
| Sikkim ; common аё elevations of about 6,000 feet; Pantling No. 454; in flower 
during July and August. Nepal; Wallich. Khasia Hills; Lobb, Hooker fiL, and Т, 
Thomson. 
The nearest ally of this is probably 0. caudata, King and Pantling, a species from 
Perak recently described in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal; but in 
that species the peduncle is adnate to a leaf, the petals are very narrow and acumi- 
nate, as also are the lateral lobules of the lip; the terminal lobules of the lip are, 
moreover, longer than in this. 
Axx. Rox, Bor. Garp. CALCUTTA, Vor. VIII. 
