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` Poate 246.— Cremastra Wailichiana, Lindl. A plant; of natural size. - Fig. 1 а flower, 2 floral bract, 
ovary, column with anther іл situ and lip, 3 lip, 4 upper half of column with anther, in situ, 5 apex 
of the column showing the pollinia attached to their gland, 6 anther; ай enlarged. 
37. Oreorchis, Lindl. 
Terrestrial; pseudo-bulb corm-like, broadly ovoid, 1: or 2-leaved. Leaves long, narrow. 
Scape tall, slender, produced from the side of the pseudo-bulb; fowers rather small, in 
racemes. Sepals ovate-lanceolate. . Petals sub-similar and slightly spreading or sub- 
connivent, Lip more or less oblong, attached to the base of the column by a short 
narrow claw, gibbous at the base or not, the anterior part 3-lobed; the side lobes short, 
entire; the terminal lobe broad, more or less bifid. Column elongated, stout; more or less 
curved, the apex sub-truncate, Anther l-celled. Pollinia 4, globose, united to a short 
common caudicle ending in a gland derived from the stigma. ‘А genus of four species 
all inhabiting Northern Asia. 
Lip with a short globose sac at the base; leaves oblong-lanceolate, кеш 1. 0. folíosa. 
Lip not saccate at the base; leaves linear, usually two. , . . + o» o 29. О. micrantha, 
1, Овкокснів FOLIOSA, Lindl, in Journ. Linn. Soc. III, 27, 
Pseudo-bulb about `6 in. long, the base broad and bearing a few lax fibres. | Leaf 
solitary, terminal, solitary, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, narrowed. at the base to a short 
petiole, plicate, with two or three very bold nerves and slender ones between; length 4 to 
9 in., breadth "5 to "85 in., petiole “75 to 2:25 in. Scape 12 to 18 in. long; the peduncle 
with two or three tubular pees fitting sheaths 1 to 2 in. long; raceme 3 to 8 in. long, 
laxly few-flowered; floral bract small, equalling in length the short pedicel of the 
ovary. Flowers "5 in. long. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, sub-acute, the lateral pair produced 
at the base on to the sac of the lip. Petals broader than the sepals, but not quite so 
` long, the apices of all more or less connivent. Lip longer than the sepals, deflexed from 
below the middle, clawed and shortly saccate at the base; side lobes broadly oblong, 
oblique, obtuse, 3 3-nerved, their edges entire; terminal lobe sub-reniform (when flattened 
out) shortly bifid, the margin thickened and erose; disc with five stout branching nerves 
but not lamellate. Column very slightly curved; the sides thickened, especially towards 
the base and passing into the short sac of the lip. Hook. fil Fl Br. Ind. V, 708. 
Corallorhiza, sp. Lindl. in Royle Ill. Him. Bot., 362. 
Sikkim, Lachen. Valley, elevat.: 10,000 feet; Sir J. D. Hooker; Pantling, No. 399; 
in flower in July. North-west Himalaya; at Simla, Gamble, 7,800 ft. Gharwal; Royle. 
China; West Szechuen and Tibetan Frontier, Pratt, No. 19. 
The flowers are reddish in colour. 
Pare 137.—Oreorchis foliosa, Lindl. А plant; of natural size. Fig. 1 flower, 2 bract, stalked 
ovary, column, lip (anther and. pollinia removed), seen from the side, 3 lip flattened out, 4 column 
soon after fertilization; all enlarged. 
2. OREORCHIS MICRANTHA, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ІП, 27, 
Pseudo-burb about "75 in, long, ovoid-conic, the base with a few fibres, Leaves usually 
two, with occasionally, an abortive third, but often solitary, linear, passing at the 
