108 ORCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM.HIMALAYA. 
the lip blotched with red rather than with brown. In fig. 2719 of the same work, the 
prevailing colour of the sepals and petals is shown as green rather than red. Loddiges’ 
figure shows the sepals and petals as of a pale primrose, the lip of bright yellow. 
Prate 149.—Phajus maculatus, Lindl. Pseudo-bulbs, leaf and part of scapa; of natural sis». Fig. 1 
lip and ovary, 2 upper part of the column showing the stigma and the anther in situ, 3 empty anther 
seen from below, 4 pollinia, 5 side view of the pollinia; а enlarged, 6 capsule; of natural sise. 
9, Рнлтив WALLEH, Lindl. in Wall. РІ, As. Rar. П, 46, t. 158. 
Pseudo-bulbs conical, bearing three or four annular cicatrices and sometimes also one or 
two sheaths. Stem stout, 2 to 3°5 feet high, and from "5 to 75 in. thick. Leaves thickly 
membranous, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, tapering to the petiole, 12 to 24 in. long and 2:5 
to 8 in. broad. Scapes from the side of the pseudo-bulb, 2 to 4 feet long, with several 
tubular sheaths 1:5 to 2 in. long; the raceme from 8 to 24 in., many-flowered. lowers 4 
to 6 in, across; órací large, cymbiform, slightly longer than the stalked ovary, caducous, 
Sepals and petals sub-equal, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, spreading. Jp shorter than 
the sepals and petals, its lower part tubular and ending in a narrow curved spur "5 to 
ТӘ in. in length; its anterior part deflexed, conchiform, more or less ovate, dilated, 
acute or acuminate, sometimes apiculate, the margins erose-undulate, the upper surface 
corrugated. Column erect, glabrous. Pollinia 8, dimidiately ovate, somewhat compressed, 
united by fours to two membranes. Capsule narrowly obovoid, stoutly ribbed, 3 in. 
long and 1°5 in, in diam, Lindl, Gen. and Spec. Orch. 126.; Lindl. in Bot. Reg. Misc., 
44; Reichb. fil. in Walp. Ann. VI, 459; Paxt. Mag. Bot, t. 193; Bot. Mag., 7023; 
Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. V, 816 (in part). Р. bicolor, Lindl. Gen. and Spec. Orch. 128; 
Sertum Orch., t. 23; in Bot. Reg., 1839, Misc. 61; Bot. Mag., t. 4078. Wight Ic. t. 
1659—60; Thwaites Enum. Pl. Ceyl., 300; Blume Mus. Bot. Ludg, Bat. II, 178; Walp. 
Ann. VI, 458. Р, grandifolius, Lindl. in Wall. Cat., 3747 (not of Loureiro), 
Sikkim, in tropical valleys and at the base of the range; many collectors; Pantling 
No. 120. Assam, Sylhet, Khasia Hills, Burma, Ceylon, also in the Malay Archipelago. 
In Wallich’s original figure of this species the sepals and petals are buff, and the 
lip is white tinged with yellow on the disc and externally, and also with slight touches 
of pink. The Sikkim plant here figured has darker sepals and petals, warm brown on 
the inner and white on the outer surface, while the lip is is purple passing into white 
on the edges and into yellow in the tube. 
“РглтЕ 150.—Phajus Wallichii, Lindl. Pseudo-bulbs, part of a raceme and capsule, of natural size. 
Fig. 1 section through upper part of column, anther and spur, 2 empty anther, lower surface, 3 and 4 
pollinia; all enlarged. 
4. PiraJys Browrr, Lindl, Gen. and Spec. Orch., 127, var. pulchra. 
: The characters of P. Wallichii, but the spur not exceeding "25 in. in length, the 
mouth of the lip contracted. and trilobulate, and the capsule ellipsoid and only 275 іп, 
in length; inflorescence rather lax. Blume Orch. Archip. Ind. 2, t. 1; De Vriese 
Jlustr. Orch, Archip. Ind., t. 8; Regel Garten-flora, XIV, t. 464. Р. Бына, var. 
Derneysii, Hook, fil, in Bot, Mag., t. 6032; yar. Assamica, Reichb. fil, in Gard. Chron, for 
