CHRYSOGLOSSUM, 97 
without either membrane or gland. Capsule lin. long, fusiform. Lindl. in Journ. Linn. 
бос, ІП, 22, А. Grifithii, Reichb. fil in Bonplandia, IT, 90; in Allg. Gartenzeit, 
for 1856, 218; іп Walp. Ann. VI, 471; Hook. fil Fl, Br. Ind, V. 823, Anthogonium, 
Griff. Notul ІП, 383; Іс. Pl. Asiat. t. 345, 
Sikkim ; at elevations of from 4,000 to 7,000 feet, common; Pantling, No. 54. 
flowering during August and September. Distributed westward along the Himalaya to 
Nepal and in the Khasia and Naga Hills; also in Burma. 
The flowers are rose-coloured, the lip being white towards the apex, with dark 
purple spots, and the anther a brillant yellow, А  white-flowered variety is not 
uncommon. : 
Рглте 184.—Anthogonium gracile, Lindl, A plant; of natural size. Fig. 1 flower, 2 bract, ovary 
and lip, іп profile, the sepals and petals having been removed, 3 lip, spread out, 4 upper part 
of column with anther in situ, 5 under surface of anther, 6 pollinia; all enlarged. 
9. Chrysoglossum, Blume, 
Terrestrial with creeping rhizome,  pseudo-bulbs narrow. Leaf solitary, plicate, 
membranous, elliptic-lanceolate, Scape from the rhizome near the pseudo-bulb, erect 
.the raceme lax. Sepals sub-equal, spreading, the lateral pair connate into a mentum 
with the base of the lip. Petals slightly broader than the sepals. Lip usually auricled 
near the base, adpressed to the column and adnate to its foot, deflexed below the middle, 
3-lobed, 3-lamellate. Column slender, with a very small spur, its sides auriculate 
about the middle, sometimes lamellate in front, Anther triangular, 2-celled; pollinia 
2, free, sub-globose or unequally four-sided. 
A genus for a long time supposed to be confined to the Malayan region, but, as discovered by 
Sir Joseph Hooker, quite as much Indian as Malayan, there being two species now known from India, 
and one from Ceylon, besides the two Malayan originally described by Blume. This genus resembles 
Тайна and Plocoglottis in habit, and to some extent Eulophia also. It is characterised by its bi-auriculate 
column, small mentum (formed by the union of the bases of the column, lip and lateral sepals); 
9-lobed lip with a large auriculated base adnate to the column (not jointed); and perfectly free, 
sub-globular or angled pollinia, and membranous plicate leaves. 
CunysocLossuM rRRATICUM, Hook. fil, Ic., Plantar., t. 2062. 
Pseudo-bulb narrowly ovoid, tapering much to the apex, about 3 in. long. Leaf 
tapering to each end, about 12 in. long and 4 in. broad; petiole 4 іп, Scape about as long 
as the leaf, with three or four sheathing bracts about "75 in. long. Flowers few, about "8 
in. across; floral bract lanceolate, shorter than the long-stalked ovary. Sepals linear-oblong, 
sub-acnte, the lateral pair faleate, Petals oblong, obtuse, very faleate, Lip with a broad 
base hastately 3-lobed, the lateral lobes rounded, the apical lobe sub-acute with upturned 
margins, Disc with three lamelle, the central one shorter, the two lateral diverging 
at their apices. Column with two projecting rounded, lobes on its margins below the 
middle, and a short spur at its base; the face grooved and with two lamelle near the 
base and above the entrance to the spur. Anther apiculate. 
Sikkim; at Rishap; C. B. Clarke. Bhotan, in the valley of the Gheet, at an 
elevation of from 8,000 to 5,000 feet; Pantling, No, 83; in flower during June, 
Axx. Roy. Вот. Qarn., Catcurra, Vou. ҮШ. 
