104 ORCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM-HIMALAYA. 
base. Flower about 1 in. long; the bract linear, about one-third of the length of the 
stalked ovary. Sepals and petals sub-equal, lanceolate, acuminate. Lip oblong, with a 
short, blunt, curved spur, rather large blunt incurved side lobes, and a dilated sub-reniform 
apex apiculate in the centre; upper surface of the middle of the lip with three ridges 
which, beginning at the base as lines, pass into converging lamelle towards the apex; 
spur blunt, incurved, exceeding the sepals by "12 im. Column narrowly winged from 
base to apex. Anther .with two purple bosses, 
Sikkim, in tropical valleys, ascending to elevations of 2,500 feet, in flower іп 
March; Pantling No. 204. 
The colour of the sepals and petals is greenish with brown lines; the lip is white, 
and its lamelle are yellow, spotted with pink. The anther is pink and its bosses are 
dark red. The species is near to 7. viridifusca. We lave dedicated it to Sir Joseph 
Hooker. / 
Prate 143. Тайиа Hookeriana, King and Pantling. Pseudo-bulbs, flowering-seape and leaf. Fig. 1 
sepals and petals separated, of natural size, 2 apex of ovary, column, anther and lip, seen from the 
side, 3 lip, 4 column and anther, 5 front of an‘her, 6 pollinia, 7 the same, side view; all enlarged. 
14. Nephelaphyllum, Blume. 
Terrestrial creeping herbs with succulent stems or pseudo-bulbs, and a few sub- 
coriaceous, petiolate, often coloured, ovate or cordate leaves. Scapes sheathed, flowers in 
racemes. Sepals free, narrow, spreading or recurved. Petals narrow. Lip sessile on the 
base of the column (attached to its foot in N. grandiflorum), usually shortly spurred. 
Column with winged edges, Anther 2-celled. ^ Pol/inia 8, unequal, adnate to a linear 
membrane. Species seven; Indian, Malayan and Chinese, 
Column with a long foot, flowers with а mentum. . . . . . 1. N. grandiflorum, 
Column without a foot; flowers with no mentum, but with a 
short stout spur. 
Lip broadly oblong, without lobes. . . . . . . . 2. М. pulchrum, var. 
Sikkimensis. 
Lip elongate-cuneate, 3-lobed. . . . . . . . . . 3. М. eordifolium. 
1. NEPHELAPHYLLUM GRANDIFLORUM, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 192; in Ann. 
Bot. Gard. Calc. V, pt. 1, 23, t. 34. 
Pseudo-bulbs about З in. long, narrowly fusiform, touching by their bases, half covered 
by а membranous sheath and bearing at the apex a rather thick ovate-elliptie, acute, 
T- to 9-nerved leaf, cordate at the base, 4 or 5 in. long, and 2:5 to 3 in, broad, the 
petiole undistinguishable from the pseudo-bulb. Scape with raceme much longer than 
the leaves, erect, slender; its peduncle with two sheaths 1 to 15 in. in length, спе at 
the base and one about the middle; the raceme sparsely 6- to 10-flowered. Flowers 1 
in. long; the $dract linear-lanceolate, much shorter than the stalked ovary. Dorsal sepal 
lanceolate ; the lateral pair larger, faleate and with broad bases. Petals as long as, 
but бден than, the dorsal sepal, acute, 5-nerved like the sepals, Lip sub- panduriform 
when flattened out; the side lobes large, rounded, erect; the terminal lobe triargular, 
acute, deflexed ; the upper surface with а thickened ew line and two lateral undulate 
lamellze iind from the base nearly to the apez, Mentum conical. Column and its foot 
