110 ORCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM-HIMALAYA. 
to 4 in. Raceme axillary, few- and sparsely-flowered; its peduncle long, slender, decurved, 
bearing one or two lanceolate sheaths. Flowers (measured to the end of the spur) 
about 1:75 in. long; bract lanceolate, ‘75 to 1 in. long, deciduous. Sepals sub-equal, 
narrowly oblong, sub-acute; the lateral pair sub-undulate, slightly broader than the dorsal. 
Petals narrowly spathulate, obtuse. Тір with a rather long sharp spur, when spread out 
sub-reniform, as long as the sepals, 3-lobed, puberulous, upper surface with a pubescent 
mesial ridge from base to apex; the lateral lobes large, broad, convolute into a tube, 
the apical lobe deflexed, sub-quadrate, emarginate both at the edges and at the broad 
apex; spur unequally and minutely bifid at the apex, pubescent internally. Column long, 
without a foot, the edges slightly winged towards the apex. Anther rounded, puberulous. 
Pollinia 8, narrowly oblong, slightly compressed, attached by fours to ап elongated 
membrane. Reichb. fil. in Walp. Ann. VI, 922, 928; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. V, 817. 
Limatodes mishmensis, Lindl. and Paxt. Fl. Gard. III, 36. 
Sikkim, at elevations of 4,000 to 6,000 feet, common; Pantling No. 18; in flower 
during September and October. Collected also by Clarke in Assam and in the Mishmi 
Hills by Griffith. 
The flowers are rose-coloured, the petals being of rather a paler tint than the sepals, 
and the spur being a bright yellow. A form is occasionally met with having pure white 
flowers but, except that it is more slender in its habit, it differs from the type in no 
other respect. 
PLATE 152—Phajus mishmensis, Reichb. fil. Leaf and raceme; of natural size. Fig. 1 floral bract, 
2 sepals and petals, 3 side view of ovary, column and lip, 4 lip, 5 column with anther in situ and the 
spur of the lip, 6 anther, upper surface, 7 pollinia; ай enlarged, 
6. Pnajus ALBUS, Lindl. in Wall. Cat., 3749; РІ, As. Rar. IT, t. 198. - 
Pseudo-bulb none. Stems stout, erect, tufted, 1 to 3 feet long, bearing many tubular 
sheaths at the base and numerous leaves. Leaves membranous, glaucous beneath, dis- 
tichous, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, sessile, 6 to 12 in. 
long and 1 to 2:25 in. broad. Raceme terminal, drooping, 4- to 6-flowered, 4 to 6 in. 
long, on a short peduncle with a single elongate sheath. Flowers 2 to 2°5 in. long and 
4 in. wide when forcibly expanded; the bract nearly white, large, oblong, cymbiform, 
acute, equalling or exceeding the long-stalked ovary. Sepals free, sub-equal, narrowly 
oblong, acute; the petals slightly narrower, acute. Lip broadly oblong-pandurate when 
spread out, the base with a short slightly bifid horizontal spur; the lower half convolute 
into а tube; the anterior cucullate, forming a rounded sheil-ike mouth slightly acuminate 
and with sharply and unequally dentate undulate edges, the upper surface with seven to 
nine dentate crested ridges. Column slightly winged near the apex, with a very short foot. 
Pollinia 8, unequal, elongate. Capsule narrowly elliptic, 1:95 in. long. Lindl. Bot. Reg., 
1838, t. 33; Paxt. Mag. V, t. 125; Bot. Mag., t. 3991. Grah. Cat, Bomb. Plants, 205; ; 
Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. II, 181; Hook. fil Fl. Br. Ind. V, 818. P. Marshalliana, 
Reichb. fil. in Linnea XLI, 65; багі Garten-flora, t. 1098. Thunia alba, Reichb. fil. 
in Bot. Zeit, 1852, 764. Т ойына, Reichb. fil. in Gard. Chron., 1881, П, 166. 
Limodorum С Roxb. Fl. Ind, III, 466. 
 Sikkim, at elevations of 2,000 to 4,000 feet; Pantling No. 81; in flower during 
May. Distributed westwards along the Hija chain to E In the Khasia 
Hills, Burma and also on the Western Ghats. 
