96 ORCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM-HIMALAYA. 
in its lower half, and irregular sub-cuneate deeply erose red pales in its upper; the 
lateral pair widely separated at their bases from the dorsal, lanceolate, from 4 to 7 
inches long, the filiform tips twisted into a tail, their apices free. Petals subulate- 
lanceolate, faleate, 1-nerved, with filiform pale-bearing apices like the dorsal sepal 
and of about the same length. Lip oblong, obtuse, decurved from the very concave 
base; the area between the upturned edges flat and with three raised lines, the outer 
two sinuous, the central one straight. Column broad with hooked decurved apical 
teeth, dentate at their bases; the foot curved, tapering. Anther pubescent in front; 
pollinia oblong, compressed, attached to a ball of viscid matter. Warner Orchid. Alb. 
t. 869; Hook, fil. Fl. Br. Ind. V, 773. 
Sikkim, in warm valleys; Pantling No. 197; in flower during October and 
November. 
The colour of the flowers is yellowish-green with purple markings; the palez 
and lip are dark purple. The lateral sepals in the plant from which the drawing 
was made measured 7 inches in length. The flowers have a very unpleasant odour. 
The nearest allies of this are the Burmese C. Colletti, Hemsl., and the Malayan C. 
vaginatum, Lindl. 
Ртлте 1383.—Cirrhopetalum ornatissimum, Reichb. fil. A plant; of natural size. Fig. 1 dorsal 
sepal, 2 petals, З pales from the petals, 4 bract, ovary, column with the anther im situ and 
lip, 5 lip, 6 column, showing its decurved apical processes, foot, and the lip, 7 anther, 8 pollinia 
and viseus; all enlarged. 
8. Anthogonium, Lindl. 
Terrestrial, slender; pseudo-bulb small, partly buried in the soil, bearing at 
the apex a short 2- to 5-leaved stem. Leaves membranous, linear, plicate, sessile, 
sheathing. Scape from the side of the pseudo-bulb, exceeding the leaves, bearing 
a simple or slightly branched terminal lax raceme of resupinate flowers rather more 
than “5 in. long, gibbous at the base. Sepals connate in their lower half into a 
narrow cylindric tube; the upper halves free, oblanceolate, spreading. Petals elongate- 
spathulate, their narrow bases included in the sepiline tube. Lip adnate to the base 
of the column, convolute, embracing the column; the basal part narrow, the anterior 
part slightly expanded, and the mouth obscurely 3-lobed. Column long, slender, its 
apex dilated and abruptly bent, not winged and with no foot. Anther 4-celled; 
pollinia 4, in one row, unequal, without membrane or viscus. A single species. 
ANTHOGONIUM GRACILE, Lindl. in Wall, Cat 7398; Gen. and Spec. Orchid., 426. 
Pseudo-bulb ovoid. Stem 4 in. long, sheathed. at the base, bearing 2 to 4 
membranous, many-nerved, acuminate leaves, not petiolate, but sheathing at the 
base, 6 to 12 in. long and `4 to 77 in. broad. Scape longer than the leaves, rising 
from the side of the pseudo-bulb, slender, erect, bearing several short tubular sheaths 
"5 in. long. Raceme З to 6 іп. long, sometimes with a branch, sparsely flowered. 
Flowers *6 to °75 in. long, often at a wide angle with the long-stalked ovary; the 
bract lanceolate, minute. Tube of the perianth longer than the free parts; anterior 
part of the lip cuneate, the apex tri-lobulate, Рой та four ina single row, unequal, 
