102 ORCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM HIMALAYA. 
At the base of the Sikkim-Himalaya; Pantling No. 482; in flower during March. 
Extending along the base of the Himalaya westward to Gharwal. In the Khasia Hills, 
the base of the ranges of Peninsular India and of Ceylon, the Malay Archipelago and 
S. China. 
The flowers are greenish-white, often flushed with pink; the terminal lobe of the 
lip being purplish. There is some variation in the size of the bracts which sheath the 
scape, but the variations are not constant. 
Piare 140.—Pachystoma senile, Reichb. fil. Rhizome, flowering scape and leaf; of natural sise. 
Fig. 1 a flower, 2 floral bract, stalked ovary, column, anther and lip, seen from the side, 3 lip, 4 part 
of ovary, column showing the stigma and the end of the dorsal anther, 5 lower surface of anther, 
6 pollinia; ай enlarged. 
13. Tainia, Blume. 
Terrestrial, glabrous, pseudo-bulbous. Leaf solitary, petiolate, membranous, many- 
nerved. Scape tall, erect, originating from the base of the pseudo-bulb. Flowers racemose, 
rather small and of a dull colour. Sepals and petals sub-equal, narrow; the lateral sepals 
faleate, forming with the short foot of the column a small blunt mentum. Jip more 
or less hastately 3-lobed, the lateral lobes small, the terminal broad, the dise with 
several lamella. Column slightly winged towards the apex. Anther short, broad, with 
two blunt often highly coloured bosses. Pollinia 8, unequal, united in fours to a granular 
membrane. Species eighteen or twenty, Indo-Malayan and Chinese. 
Pseudo-bulbs narrowly fusiform. 
Seape as long as or slightly longer than the narrowly elliptic leaves . . 1. Т. minor. 
Seape at least twice as long as the broadly elliptic leaves. . . «6 #, X. 0a. 
Pseudo-bulbs ovoid. 
Leaves жайғасты” ЕЕГ VS Т. Hookeriana. 
1. Tama minor, Hook. fil Ic. Plantar., t. 2091. 
Rhizome stout, with woolly roots. Pseudo-bulbs narrowly fusiform, inclined, about 
155 in. apart, oblique, slightly curved, 1:5 to 1:75 in. long, often covered with a 
fibrous sheath. Leaf plicate, membranous, narrowly elliptic, tapering to each end, 
5 or 6 in. long, and 1'5 to 2°25 in. broad; petiole channelled, 2 to 2°5 in. long. 
Scape from the base of the pseudo-bulb, erect, slender, as long as or longer than the 
leaf, tuberous at the base and enveloped in several unequal tubular sheaths; the raceme 
occupying the upper half and bearing seven or eight distant flowers “6 in. long; floral 
bract linear-lanceolate, slightly shorter than the stalked ovary. Sepals free, spreading, 
narrowly oblong, blunt, the lateral pair sub-faleate. Petals like the lateral sepals, all 
S-nerved. Jip narrowly cuneate-elliptic, 3-lobed, tha lateral lobes far forward, small, 
sub-aeute; the terminal lobe broad, short, erose, obtuse, itsupper surface with five narrow 
unequal ridges; the dise between the side lobes with three broad lamelle. Mentum short, 
blunt. Column slightly winged towards the apex, the foot very short. Anther short, 
broad, with two obtuse bosses. Pollinia unequal, cohering in fours = a granular m 
Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind.: V, 821. 
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