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Ind. VI, 22. 1. brachystachys, var. flaveola, Par. and Reichb. -fil. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 
ХХХ, 144, І. burmanica, Lindl. Fol. Orch. 3. Z. platyglossa, Reichb. fil in Walp. 
Ann. VI, 622. ZL. zeylanica, Lindl. Fol. Orch., 3. Cymbidium triste, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ІП, 
461; Bot. Mag., t. 3648; Wight Ic. 911 (tert. Жү]: Griff. Notul. ІП, 340 (the Mergui 
Zu C. tenuifolium, Wight Іс. 1689 (erel. text). 
Sikkim, in the bottoms of valleys, ascending to 3,000 feet; in oet during May; 
Pantling, No. 115. Khasia Hills, Bengal, Pegu and Tenasserim, Andamans, the Western 
Ghats and Ceylon. 
The sepals and petals are of a uniform green and the lip and column of a deep 
purple, the anther is pale yellow. The plant, as found іп the Bengal Sunderbans, has 
flowers coloured exactly as above described, but the stem and leaves are more slender 
and the ovaries are longer. Blume's two figures of this show larger flowers than we 
ever met with in British Indian specimens. | 
Prats 271.—.Luisia teretifolia, Сапа. А plant; of natural sise. Fig. 1 а flower, 2 floral bract, 
stalked ovary, column, anther and lip, side view, 3 column and anther, 4 empty anther, lower surface, 
5 apex of column with pollinia бл situ, the cap of the anther having been removed, 6 pollinia, after 
removal; ай Ad ar 
4. Lusia INCONSPICUA, Hook. fil. MSS. in Herb. Hort. Cale. 
Stem 4 to 6 in. long, slender, not branching. Leaves spreading, 1-4 to 2°5 in. long, 
"1 in. in diam. or less, the internodes ‘5 in. long. Spikes "15 to 79 in. long, slender, 1- to 
3-flowered. Flowers *15 in. long; floral bract membranous, triangular, acuminate. Sepals 
ovate-lanceolate, sub-acute, spreading. Petals oblong, tapering slightly to the blunt apex. 
Lip as long as the sepals, the basal part (hypochile) hemispherically saccate ; the anterior 
part (epichyle) decurved, flat, sub-reniform, notched at the apex, its upper surface minutely 
hispid and with 5 or 6 vertical lines. Column half as long as the lip, stout. Anther 
depressed, rostellum large. Pollinia broadly ovoid, attached by a slender caudicle to 
an oblong-quadrate gland.  Saccolubium ? inconspicuum, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 56. 
Cymbidium inconspicuum, Wall. MSS. 
Sikkim, at low elevations; in flower during June and July; кб Хо. 159, 
Assam (fig. іп Herb. Bot. Gard. Caleutta); J ater Simons, 
This is a smaller and more slender plant than JL. teretifolia, amd it has smaller 
flowers, the prevailing colour in which is pale yellowish green, the column being purple 
and the basal half of the lip having spots of that colour. A coloured drawing of this 
was prepared in Dr. Wallich’s time from a specimen sent from Assam by the late 
Colonel Jenkins. Dr. Wallich named it Cymbidium inconspicuum, and it was published by 
Sir Joseph Hooker in the Flora of British India as a doubtful species of Saccolabium 
under the name 9.2 inconspicuum. After seeing dried specimens of the plant from 
Sikkim, Sir Joseph saw that the plant is a Lwisia, and he wrote on the Calcutta 
drawing the name here published. 
PLATE 279.— Luisia inconspicua, Hook. fil. A plant; of natural size. Fig. 1 a flower, 2 ovary, 
column and lip, in profile, 3 petals, 4 column with anther in sifu, 5 empty anther, seen from below, 
6 apex of column ‘with the pollinia in sifu, the exp of. the anther having been removed, 7 TÉ 
ай enlarged. 
ANN. Roy. Вот. Garb., Оліситтл, Vor. VIII. 
