2219 ORCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM-HIMALAYA. 
Sikkim, at elevations of 2,000 to 4,000 feet; Wallich Hooker filius and T. Thomson; 
Pantling No. 121; in flower during April and Мау, Khasia Hills; Hooker filius. 
The flowers are of a dull white suffused and blotched with yellow; the apices of 
the sepals are purple and the upper halves of the petals are spotted with purple and 
yellow. The apex of the lip and the ridges on the disc are yellow. The ripe capsule is 
of a fine purple colour, 
Pirate 154.— Acanthephippium sylhetense, Lindl. А piant; of natural size, Fig. 1 the petals, 2 
part of ovary, column with its foot and the lip, seen from the side, З lip, 4 column and foot, 
anther in situ and base of lip, 5 empty anther, 6 pollinia; а enlarged. 
9. ACANTHEPHIPPIUM STRIATUM, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1838, Misc., 45. 
Pseudo-bulbs elongate-obpyriform, 3 or 4 in. long, and 1'5 in. in diam. at the base, 
clothed near the top with long brown fimbriate membranous sheaths and tapering into 
cylindric stems 4 or 5 in. long. Leaves elliptic, shortly acuminate or acute, tapering at 
the base into the short petiole; length 8 to 12 in., breadth 2:5 to 45 in. Raceme few- 
flowered, on a stout peduncle 3 or 4 in. long enveloped in long imbricate green sheaths 
often tipped and striped with red. Flowers 1:25 in. long and about :63 in. in diam.; 
foral bract large, cymbiform, membranous, shorter than the stalked ovary. Sepals broadly 
oblong, cohering; the lateral pair broad, cohering to form an elongate conical mentum. 
Petals quite concealed by the sepals, dimidiate-oblong, their tips not protruding. Lip a 
little longer than the column, concealed by the sepals, oblong, with large lateral entire 
much incurved lobes and а small triangular terminal lobe with undulate edges; the upper 
surface without any calli or lamelle, but with a single thickened ridge down the 
middle. Column short, with a long straight foot suddenly pouched and curved at the 
extremity. Anther 2-celled, its apex conical. Pollinia 8. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. V, 816; 
in Ann. Bot. Gard. Cale. V, pt. I, 22, t. 33; Reichb. fil. in Walp. Ann. VI, 460. 
Sikkim, at elevations of 1,800 to 3,000 feet. Griffith (Kew Distrib. No. 5298); 
Pantling No. 269; in flower during July and August. Nepal. Khasia Hills; C. B. 
Clarke. | 
The flowers аге pale pink with bold red lines, the mentum and lip being tinged 
with yellow. 
PraTE 155.—Acanthephippium striatum, Lindl. A plant; of natural size. Fig. 1 the petals, 2 apex 
of ovary, column with its foot, anther in sits anl lip, seen from the side, 3 lip, 4 column, foot, 
anther in situ, apex of mentum and base of lip, from the side, 5 empty anther, lower surface, 6 
pollinia ; ай enlarged, 
17. Arundina, Blume. 
Terrestrial, with tall reed-like stems. Leaves numerous, membranous, distichous, 
narrow, lowers large, rose-coloured, in erect terminal panicles or racemes. Sepals free, 
sub-equal, spreading. Petals broader and shorter. spreading. Lip large, cucullate, 
convolute at the base and embracing the column; the mouth large, 2-lobed at the apex. 
Column long, slender, narrowly winged, foot none, Anther-cells 4; pollinia 8, in two 
superposed unequal rows attached by fours to one membrane. Species eight or ten; 
Indian, Malayan and Chinese, С | VUES 
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