182 ORCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM-HIMALAYA. 
Infloresence shorter than the leaves, the raceme short, corymbose and drooping when in 
flower but lengthening and erect when in fruit; fera! brací large, lanceolate, longer than 
the ovary. Petals with thickened midribs. Lip very ventricose at the base and much 
thickened; thickened also on the rounded minutely notched apical lobe, its dise much 
granulated, Pollinia 2, with elongate pits on their posterior surfaces. Lindl, Gen. and 
Spee. Orch., 175; Dalz. and Gibs. Bomb. Flora, 266; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 16. 
G. dilataium, Wall, Cat. 7376. Limouorum nutans, Roxb. Corom, Plants I, t. 40; Fl. Ind. 
ІП, 470; Malazis nutans, Willd. Sp. Pl. IV, 93. 
Sikkim, at low elevations; in flower during April and May; Pantling, No. 279. 
Westward to Nepal and eastward to Bhutan; also in Assam, Bengal, Burma, the Andaman 
Islands, Ceylon and the Deccan; probably distributed in the Malayan countries. 
The flowers are either pure white or pale purple with darker markings on the lip, 
the cali on the lip are yellow. | 
PLATE. 245.—Geodorum purpureum, В. Brown. А plant; of natural size. Fig. 1 floral bract, ovary 
and flower, 2 apex of column and lip, seen from the side, 3 section through the column and lip, 4 
three-fourths view of column showing the large stigma and anther іп situ, 5 anther with the 
valves turned outwards, 6 pollinia in situ on the оңдап, front view, 7 back view of the pollinia 
showing the pits; all enar: pes 
36. Cremastra, Lindl. 
Terrestrial; stem. bulbous at the base and proceeding from a large nodulated 
root-stock, tall, erect, stout, with several large loose sheathing bracts. Leaves radical, 
elliptic, plicate. Flowers long and narrow, in a conical crowded raceme, pendulous. 
Sepals and pe'als narrowly lanceolate, closely pressed together towards the base, 
spreading slightly towards the apex. Lip adnate to the base of the column, erect, 
linear, minutely sub-saccate at the base, slightly dilated and 3-lobed towards the apex; 
the lateral lobes narrowly oblong, divergent; the apical lobe exceeding the lateral, 
oblong, blunt, with a fleshy appendage near its base. : Column long, slender, straight, 
dilated, and 3-lobed at the apex. Anther conical, 1-celled. Ройтіа 4, cuneate-ovoid, 
compressed. Stigma very large. А single species; a native of India and Japan. 
Cremastra WALLICHIANA, Lind]. in Wall. Cat., 7349; Gen. and Spec. 
Orch., 172. 
Leaves usually two, on long petioles, sometimes spotted, plicate; length of blade 6 to 
19 in. breadth 3 to 5 in., petiole 4 to 6 in. Inflorescence often twin, shorter than the 
fully developed leaves; the racemes conical, 4 to 6 in. long. Flowers narrow, imbricate, 
drooping, l:2 to 1-4 in. long; floral bract lanceolate, much exceeding the short sessile 
ovary. Мід. Prol, 136; Franchet and Sabatier Enum. Pl. Jap. П, 24; Hook. fil. Fl. 
Br. Ind. VI, 16. С. mitrata, A. Gray, Bot. Jap. 411. Hyacintnorchis variabilis, Bl, Mus. 
Bot. Lugd. Bat. I, 48, t. 16; Walp. Ann. VI, 628. 
Sikkim, at elevations of 6, 000 to 8,000 feet; Hooker and others. Pantling, No. 142; 
in flower during April. Khasia Hills; Griffith (Kew Distrib.), No. 5204. Nepal; Wallich. 
Distrib., Japan. 
| The flowers of this are pink; the rachis of the raceme and its peduncle being green, 
speckled with brown. Dactylostalis мењ Reichb, fil. Bot. coming 1878, К 74, is 
probably this plant. . 
