18 ORCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM-HIMALAYA. 
long as the shortly pedicelled ovary. Dorsal sepal narrowly oblong, sub-acute; the 
lateral sepals half as long, wider, blunt, all revolute. Petals linear, as long as the 
dorsal sepal. Lip triangular-ovate, the basal lobes obliquely lanceolate, converging, but 
the tips not meeting; the end (apical) lobe triangular, its apex acute and minutely 
emarginate, Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 2001. 
Sikkim Himalaya; in the Теэзќа Valley, at elevations of 1,000 to 2,500 feet. 
Pantling No. 220; flowering from July to September. Burma, at Rangoon, J. Scott. 
This charming species was dedicated by Sir J. D. Hooker to the late Mr. John 
Scott, for many years Curator of the Botanic Garden, Calcutta, and was originally 
described by its author from a specimen, brought from Rangoon by Mr. Scott, which 
flowered and was figured in the Calcutta Garden. The species has of late years been 
found in the Teesta Valley in Sikkim at elevations between 1,000 and 2,500 feet; and 
it is a Sikkim specimen which is here figured. A comparison of the present figure 
with that of the Burmese plant given by Sir Joseph, in his Icones Plantarum, t. 2001, 
shows that the Burmese plant has rather а ditfarent lip, being on the whole broader, | 
with more obtuse basal lobes which are much less distinctly separated from the 
apical lobe; the apical 1093 itself is, moreover, rather more deeply emarginate. Іп 
all other respects the Sikkim and Burmese plants agree. The leaves of this species 
are beautifully coloured, being dark-gresn and purple, with a pale border suffused with 
purple and dotted with green. Tne inflorescence, bracts, sepals and petals are also 
purple, the lip being greenish-yellow. (Since the foregoing was written, we learn from 
Sir Joseph Hooker that this species is identical with M. cal-phylla, Reichb. fil. in Gard. 
Chron. 1879, II, 718.) 
Ртлте 20.— Microstylis Scottii, Hook. fil. A plant, of natural size, Fig. 1 a flower, front view, 
2 the same, back view; 8 column, 4 anther, 5 pollinia; all enlarged. 
4. MICROSTYLIS SAPROPHYTA, King and Pantling in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 
Vol. LXV (1896), pt. 2, 118. 
Terrestrial, leafless, saprophytic; the whole plant 3 to 6 in. high, glabrous. 
Stem tuberous at the base, with a few short crowded sheaths just 
bulb and two or three scattered lanceolate bracts :35 in. long.  Haceme 1 to 2 in. long, 
lax; floral bract lanceolate, equalling or exceeding the sub-sessile ovary. Fiowers '12 
in. long, inverted. Sepals ovate, blunt. Petals linear; the dorsal sepal reflexed and 
adpressed to the ovary, the lateral sepals and the petals revolute. Тір rotund-reniform, 
entire, with a semi-lunar convex fold in the middle of the upper surface; the basal 
auricles erect, rather short and broad, sub-acute. 
Sikkim-Himalaya, at TOM UE elevation 6,000 foot; also in the Lachen valley ; 
Pantling, No. 394. 
The flowers, which are greenish, open about July. | 
A singular plant, quite unlike any other species in the genus except the next. 
The bulb at the base of the stem is about ‘35 in. in diameter. 
Piare 21.— Miscrostylis saprophyta, King and Pantling. Three entire plants, of natural size. Fig. 1 
flower, front view, 2 flower, in profile, З flower, seen from behind, 4 anther, 5 pollinia ; ай enlarg:d. 
above the 
5. MicRosT£LIS APHYLLA, new species. 
Terrestrial, leafless, parasitic on roots, the whole plant 7 to 9 inches high. Tube- 
at the base of the stem irregularly oblong, sub-horizontal, smooth, "75 in. long. Stem 
