AGROSTOPHYLLUM. 
2. AGROSTOPHYLLUM MYRIANTHUM, new species. 
Rhizome stout, woody, clothed with adpressed lanceolate scales. Stems 2 feet long, 
rising about 1°5 in. apart, sub-cylindric, clavate, many-leaved. Leaves linear-oblong, 
thickly membranous, the apices blunt and notched, narrowed below to the short sub- 
tubular sheath; length 3:5 to 45 in., breadth 4 to '5 in. Capitula hemispheric, 1:25 
in. in diam., densely crdwded. Flowers "195 in. wide, yellowish; floral bract narrow, 
ovate, acute, half as long as the cylindric sessile ovary; bract of suppressed pedicel 
spathaceous. Sepals ovate-orbicular, blunt, concave. Petals narrower, blunt. ip as 
long as the sepals, oblong, 3-lobed; the side lobes rounded and with a large callus 
between them at the base; apical lobe broadly ovate, the apex broad, entire or very 
slightly notched. Column short, not winged at the apex, its foot also short. Lip of 
anther emarginate; pollinia sub-equal, attached to a small viscus. 
Sikkim, in the valley of the Teesta, at an elevation of 1,200 feet; in flower 
during August; Pantling, No. 459. | 
A species allied to А. callosum, Reichb. fil, but differing from that species in its 
larger heads of smaller flowers, and in its broader leaves. This differs from A. brevipes 
in having а single basal callus on the lip and in having no calli on the dise above 
the base. 'The flowers are of а uniform yellowish colour throughout. 
Prats 211.—4grostophyllum myrianthum, King and Pantling. А plant; of natural sise. Fig. 
1 a flower, front view, 2 side view of floral bracts, ovary, column and lip, 3 lip, 4 vertical section 
of lip showing the position of the basal callus, 5 column with anther, 6 empty anther, 7 pollinia; 
all enlarged. 
3. AGROSTOPHYLLUM CALLOSUM, Reichb. fil in Seem. Fl. Viti, 296. 
Rhizome stout, branching, clothed with thick triangular scales “95 in. long. Stems 
rising from the rhizome 1 or 2 in. apart, erect, one or two feet in height, slender at 
the base and only slightly thickened upwards. Leaves numerous, sessile, linear-oblong, 
tapering gradually from the base to the notched apex; length 6 in., breadth at the 
widest part “5 in. Head densely-flowered, 15 in. in diam. Flowers :25 in. long; floral 
bract spathaceous, about as long as the sessile ovary. Spals ovate, blunt. Petals 
broadly elliptic, very obtuse. Lip 3-lobed; the side lobes broad, rounded; the apical 
lobe decurved, ob-reniform, the apex emarginate; the basal callus large, divided into 
two diverging lobes each ending in a thickened blunt point opposite the sinus separating 
the apical from the basal lobes. Column stout, with a short foot. Lip of anther entire. 
Pollinia 'elongate-clavate, attached by elastic threads to a globular viscus. Hook. fil. 
Fl Br. Ind. V, 824.- 
Sikkim, common at elevations of about 6,000 feet; Pantling, No. 477; in flower 
during June and July. | 
The flowers of this are of a reddish colour. The gland of the pollinia is not truly 
Vandaceous, and is in reality only a globular viscus to which the pollen masses аге 
attached by elastic threads. The relation to this to А. brevipes has been explained 
under that species. 
Рглте 212.—Agrostophyllum callosum, Reichb. fil. A plant; of natural size. Fig. 1 front view 
of flower, 2 side view of bract, ovary, column and lip, 3 the lip, 4 vertical section of the lip, 5 
column and its short foot, the anther in situ, 6 an empty anther, 7 pollinia; all enlarged. 
ANN. Roy. Bor. Gard., Слтсстта, Vor. VIII. 
