200 ORCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM.HIMALAYA. 
BIERMANNIA BIMACULATA, King and Pantling. 
Stem very short. Leaves linear-oblong, narrowed to the base, sub-faleate, the 
apex obliquely bifid, 2 in. long, and "35 in. broad. Raceme stout, '75 in. long, com- 
pressed, and with persistent triangular bracts. Flowers confined to the upper half of 
the rachis, distichous, :35 in. in diam.; rac? broad, much shorter than the sessile 
ovary. бераз sub-equal, ovate-lanceolate, apiculate, the lateral pair attached {о the foot 
of the column. Petals shorter than the sepals, ovate, sub-acute. Jip springing at right 
angles from the short foot and lying parallel to the column; its side lobes narrow, 
elongate, faleate, erect, acuminate at the apex; apical lobe triangular, very fleshy and 
with two flat cali on its upper surface at the base where the side lobes end; the 
disc between the side lobes with larger elongate calli near its union with the foot. 
Stigma large. Rostzllum short. :Polınia 2, ovoid, the caudicle oblanceolate; the gland 
very small, ovoid. Capsule 1°5 in. long, triquetrous. Sarcochilus bimaculatus, King and 
Pantling in Journ. As. Soc., Beng., Vol. LXIV, Pt. 2, 340. 
Sikkim, in the valley of the Teesta, elevation about 1,500 feet; flowering in July ; 
Pantling, No. 209. 
The flowers are white with two blotches of brown on the calli of the lip, They 
open singly, smell of almonds, and are very fugacious. 
PLATE 267.—Biermannia bimaculata, King and Pantling. A plant; of natural size. Fig. 1 а flower, 
seen from the side, 2 bract, ovary, column with anther іл situ and lip, side view, 3 sepals and petals, 
separated, 4 lip, 5 column with anther in situ and stigma, 6 pollinia, 7 capsule, 8 section of the capsule; 
all enlarged. 
42. Ornithochilus, Wall. 
Epiphytal, without pseudo-bulbs. Stem very short. Leaves few, softly coriaceous, 
broadly oblong, flat, crowded. Inflorescence supra-axillary, racemose or panicled. Sepals 
sub-equal, spreading, incurved at the apex; the lateral pair obliquely obovate. Petals 
much smaller, cuneate-oblong, blunt. Zip much longer than the sepals, adnate to the 
foot of the column by a long broad claw; the claw with a rectangularly bent sub- 
cylindric spur at its junction with the apical lobe; side lobes shallow, sub-quadrate ; 
apical lobe with three lobules, the two lateral сабзй and pectinate, the central 
triangular, entire and infolded; the mouth of the spur closed by two calli projecting 
from its back and front walls; the latter hairy. Column short, cylindric, stout, with 
a short foot; the rostellum tonat the stigma circular, surrounded by a hairy rim. 
ЕТІ тезге  Pollinia 2, TET ; caudicle very broad, obcuneate, gland large. 
Species 1 or 2; Indian and Chinese. 
`Окхттноснилв FUSCUS, Wall. in ‘Lindl. 6 and Spec. Orch., 242. 
Leaves | а, narrowed to the sessile sheathing base, 3 to 6 in. long and 1-2 
to 9 in. broad. Inflorescence. two or three times longer than. the leaves. . Flowers 74 
in. across; floral- bract lanceolate, much shorter than the long-stalked ovary. Capsule 
fusiform, 1 in. long. Hook. fil Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 76. 0. eublepharon, Hance in Journ. 
Bot, XXII (1884), 364. | ` rides diforme, Wall. in Lindl. Gen. and Spec. Orch., 242; 
бегі. Orch., jrontisp. fg. 7; Reichb. fil. in Gard. Chron.; 1865, 698; Lindl. in Journ. 
