IONE. 161 
4, elliptic, equal, attached by pairs to elongate caudicles, the ends of which are attached 
to a viscid disc continuous with the stigma. 
Sikkim, at Tendong, elevation about 6,000 feet; Pantling, No. 161. 
A very remarkable species, the structure of the rostellum and pollinia of which are 
discussed in a note on page 156, 
Рглте 218.—Jone intermedia, King and Pantling. A plant; of natural sise. Fig. 1 a flower, front 
view, 2 bract, stalked ovary, column and lip, seen from the side, 3 the petals, 4 lip, 5 front view 
of the column showing the curtain-like rostellum and the pollinia with their caudicles in situ and viscid 
dise, 6 the pollinia and viscid dise removed; а enlarged. 
5. IONE scARIOSA, King and Pantling. 
Pseudo-bulbs ovoid or obliquely ovoid, of spongy consistence, "75 to 1°25 in. long, 
attached about an inch apart to a stout striate rhizome. Leaf coriaceous, narrowly 
oblong, on a short channelled petiole, the apex blunt and notched, slightly narrowed 
to the base; length 4 to 6 in., breadth ‘65 to 1 in. Scape slender, erect, two or three 
times as long as the leaf; the peduncle with three or four scattered tubular truncate 
sheaths ‘5 to ‘75 in. long. Raceme deflexed, about half the length of the peduncle, its 
rachis compressed. lowers numerous, rather distant, about ‘3 in. long, distichous; bråct 
very large, striate, scarious at flowering-time, ovate, cymbiform, acute, partly concealing 
the flower aud entirely concealing the dorsal sepal. Sepals unequal, the dorsal ovate» 
concave, blunt; the lateral pair longer, oblong, acute, slightly incurved, and lying 
nearly parallel on the under-surface of the lip. Petals one-third as long as tbe lateral 
sepals, very broad, blunt, sub-retuse, the margins erose-denticulate, the bases broad and 
truncate. Lip fleshy, sessile on the base of the column, shorter than the lateral sepals, 
ovate-elliptic, blunt, without side lobes; the upper surface concave in its lower half and 
with a small oblong callus at the base immediately under the column. Column very 
short, without a foot. Anther sub-erect, sessile; its cells distant, dehiscing vertically, 
Pollinia 4, in two pairs, connected by elastic threads to two rather large oblong caudicles 
inserted by their lower ends on a single sub-quadrate adhesive gland bifid at each end 
and curved along the centre. Stigma large, orbieular, with the gland of the pollinia 
hanging in front of its centre. Өшіріп scariosa, Lindl. in Wall. Cat., No. 7373; Gen. 
and Spec. Orch., 179; Orchid Scel., 25; Sert. Orchid., Frontisp., No. 8; Fol. Orch. 1; 
Reichb. fil. in Walp. Ann. VI, 633; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. V, 772.  Ornithidium 
bracteatum, Wall. MSS. | 
Sikkim, elevation 3,600 to 4,000 feet; not now common; Gamble, No. 10336; 
Pantling, No. 474; in flower during April and May. Nepal, Bhutan, Khasia, Tenasserim. 
The flowers are greenish, flushed with dull purple. 
Careful dissections of fresh flowers of all the Sikkim species attributed by Lindley 
to the genus Jone (1853) and of those of the single species of the genus Sunipia, 
(which Lindley attributes to Buchanan-Hamilton and which therefore must date prior to 
1816), show that the flowers of the two have practically the same structure, and that one 
of these genera must fall. In reducing one the older would naturally be upheld. But 
we find it impossible to discover what Buchanan-Hamilton’s Sunipia was. He never 
published any description of it, and no specimen bearing the name Swnipia in his hand- 
writing is now extant. The earliest reference to Sunipia which we have been able to 
Axx. Roy. Dor. Gan»., Caucurra, Vor. VIII. 
