AGROSTOPHYLLUM. 158 
27. Acrochene, Lindl. 
Epiphytic; pseudo-bulbs on a stout rhizome, each bearing a single linear-oblong 
coriaceous petiolate leaf. Scape from the base of a pseudo-bulb, pendulous; the raceme 
long, lax, many-flowered. Flower rather small, the floral bract large and persistent. Sepals 
sub-equal, spreading, the lateral pair obliquely adnate to the foot of the eclumn. Petals 
shorter than the sepals, ciliate-fimbriate, spreading. Jip with a short claw incumbent on 
and articulated іо the end of the long foot of the column, 3-lobed, the basal lobes erect 
and broadly toothed at the apex; the apical lobe narrow, acute and deflexed. Column 
short, its foot long and straight. Anther broad, terminal, opereular, 2-celled. Ро та 
2, sub-globose, each cleft above and attached below to a stout caudicle enlarged at the 
base into a gland-like body. 
A monospecific genus characterised by its saccate mentum, spreading fimbriate petals and two large 
sub-globular cleft pollinia attached to a stout caudicle which expands at the end into a depressed 
globular swelling. 
ACROCHJENE PUNCTATA, Lindl, Fol. Orchid., 1. 
Pseudo-bulbs ovoid, 1 to 1:5 in. long about 1 in. apart, shrivelled when in flower and 
with a dark brown coriaceous skin; the rhizome woody, °З in. thick. Leaf with an oblong 
obtuse emarginate blade 6 to 9 in. long and about 1°5 in. broad, tapered at the base into 
a petiole 3 to 5 in. long. Scape pendulous, 9 to 15 in. long, the peduncle with several 
broad bracts ‘5 to 1 in. long. Flowers glaucous, about 1 in. across; floral bract ovate-lan- 
ceolate, "5 in. long, the stalked ovary "75 in. long. Dorsal sepa! elliptic-ovate, acute; the 
lateral pair кин triangular, sub-acute, 7-nerved, the lower margin undulate and 
slightly gibbous at the base. Petals narrowly triangular, shorter than the dorsal sepal. 
Lip with a short sigmoid claw; the side lobes erect, short, their apices blunt toothed 
and pointing forward; apical lobe tongue-shaped, with a deep groove on its upper surface 
extending from the base to the middle; lower margin of anther toothed. The foot twice 
as long as the column and forming with the lateral sepals a saccate mentum. Capsules 
clavate, spotted, rather more than an inch long, those of the previous year dehiscing as 
tie flowers open. Reichb. fil. in Walp. Ann. VI, 635. Bulbophyllum Kingi, Hook. fil. 
Fl. Br. Ind. V, 760; Ic. Plantar., 2053. 
Sikkim, at elevations of from 5,000 to 6,000 feet; Pantling, No. 25; in flower 
during October and November. 
The flowers are of a pale yellowish-green, dottel and streaked with purplish- 
brown. | 
Рілте 209.-- Асғосһепе punctata, Lindl. A plant; of natural size. Fig. 1 а flower, front view, 
2 column and its foot, anther in sifu and lip, seen from the side, 3 lip, 4 column with anther 
and foot, 5 anther, 6 pollinia, front and back views; all enlarged, 7 capsules; of natural size. 
28. Agrostophyllum, Blume. 
Epiphytes with sheathed compressed stems and no pseudo-bulbs. Leaves membranous, 
distichous, linear, with large flattened persistent sheaths. Flowers . very small, white, 
single or in pairs on membranously sheathed pedicels, crowded in dense small almost 
sessile terminal heads. Sepals erect, conniving, concave. Petals broad or narrow, 
Axx. Rox. Bor. Gard., CALCUTTA, Vor, VIII. 
