BIERMANNIA. 199 
2. Doritis TEXIALIS, Benth. іп Gen. Plant. III, 574. 
Roots numerous, long and flat, forming large tufts. Leaves few, pendulous, often 
solitary, sometimes absent, narrowly elliptic-oblong, acute, tapering to the sessile base; 
length 3 to 5 in., breadth :6 to “8 in. Racemes longer than the leaves, pendulous, 
6- to 8-flowered. Flowers "8 in. across; bract broadly triangular, minute. Sepals unequal, 
blunt; the dorsal oblong, slightly oblanceolate; the lateral pair broader, elliptic, blunt, 
Petals obovate, blunt, shorter than the sepals. Lip adnate to the foot of the column, 
shorter than the petals; hypochile produced below into a stout sub-cylindric spur, and 
sending upward two long narrow falcate backward-pointing lobes; the epichile spathulate- 
oblong, entire, attached to the hypochile near its base, running parallel to it for part 
of its length and then curving forwards, its upper surface with a forked appendage, 
Column long, narrowly winged, dilated towards the foot; the stigma large, the rostellum 
long and narrow. Anther depressed. Pollinia sub-globose, attached by a long curved 
tapering flat caudicle to .a small triangular gland. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 31. 
JD. Braceana, Hook. fil. in Ann. Bot. Gard., Calc., V, 40, t. 60. rides teniale, Lindl. 
Gen. and Spec. Orch., 239; in Journ. Linn. Soc. ПІ, 41. Æ. carnosum, Griff. Notul, 
III, 365; Ic. Plant. Asiat., t. 338A. | 
Sikkim, at elevations from 3,000 to 6,000 feet; in flower during Мау; Pantling, 
No. 82. Westward to Kumaon and eastward to Bhutan. Khasia Hills, Manipur, Burma. 
The colour of the flowers is a delicate pale purple, the anther and epichile of the 
lip being dark purple. Specimens with white flowers are not uncommon; but, after 
fertilization has been effected, these change to yellow. In both the white and the 
purple-coloured flowers the column swells after fertilization and its margins close in. 
PrarE 266.—Doritis tenialis, Benth. A plant; of natural size. Fig. 1 a flower, 2 floral bract, 
stalked ovary, column, anther in situ and lip, seen from the side, 3 longitudinal section of the foregoing, 
4 epichile of lip, 5 lower surface of empty anther, 6 column with its foot, anther in situ and stigma, 
7 apex of column with the pollinia in situ, the cap of the anther having been removed, 8 pollinia 
after removal; all enlarged 
Al. Biermannia, new genus, King and Pantling. 
Epiphytal; stem very short. Leaves three or four, fleshy, linear. Raceme about 
as long as the leaves, few-flowered, Sepals sub-equal, ovate-lanceolate, the lateral pair 
attached to the base of the column. Petals shorter than the sepals. Column straight, 
with а. short foot at right angles to itself. Lip attached at right angles to the foot 
of the column, as long аз the petals, concave, fleshy, lobed or not, apex broad or 
sub-acute, the dise with two or more calli. Stigma large, orbicular. Anther depressed, 
apiculate, shortly beaked in front. Pollinia 2, orbicular or oval, attached by a subulate 
caudicle to a small gland. Capsule cylindric, ribbed, narrow. Two species; Sikkim and 
Khasia, | — | 
This genus is dedicated to the memory of Adolph Biermann, at one time Curator of the Botanic 
Garden, Caleutta. The only species at present belonging to it are В. Khasiana, published by us in the 
Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, for 1897, and the present plant which was originally published by us in the 
same Journal (Vol. LXIV, pt. 2, 840) under the name Sarcochilus bimaculatus. But as the genus 
Sarcochilus in the present work is defined exactly ав we believe its author desired that it should 
be, this plant cannot be included in it; and, as its characters agree with those of no other genus, we 
have been obliged to form one for it reception. 
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