219 ORCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM-HIMALAYA. 
9. res ODORATUM, Lour. Fl. Coch. Ch., 525. 
Stem very stout. Leaves flat, keeled, oblong, tapering somewhat to the blunt 
unequally and  obtusely bilobed apex, not contracted at the sheathing base; length 
6 to 12 in, breadth 1 to 1:75 in. Lacemes supra-axilary, deflexed, as long аз or 
longer than the leaves; many-flowered ;: the pedunele. short, stout, with short distant 
sheaths. Flowers 1 in. long and about '8 in. wide; floral bract broad, sheathing, 
blunt, much shorter than: the. stalked ovary. Sepals unequal, spreading; the dorsal 
-broadly elliptic-ovate, blunt; the lateral pair somewhat larger, blunt. Petals oblong, 
faleate, shorter than the sepals. Zip adnate to the short foot of the column; the 
spur large, infundibuliform, curved forwards; the lateral lobes very shallow, truncate, 
erose; apical lobe linear, its margin emarginate or erose, lying between the edges 
of the lateral lobes. Anther triangular, depressed, beaked; pollinia globose; caudicle 
linear, gland quadrate. Capsule fusiform, 1°25 in. long. Lindl. Gen. and Spec. Orch. 
239; in Journ. Linn. Soc. III, 41; Bot, Mag. 4139; Walp. Ann. VI, 898; Lindenia, 
t. 14 (var); Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 47. rides cornutum, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 63; 
Fl. Ind. HI, 472; Bot. Regist., t. 1485. 7 
Sikkim, common along the base of the range and ascending to 3,000 feet; in 
flower during May and June; Pantling, No. 443. Westward to Nepal. In the Khasia 
Hills, Sylhet, Chittagong and Burma; also in Cochin China, China and Java. 
The flowers are very fragrant. The prevailing colour in them is white with 
numerous pink spots. 
Prate 282.—.Erides odoratum, Lour. A plant, of natural size. Fig. 1 a flower, 2 apical lobe 
of the lip, 3 the column with its foot and the anther in situ, 4 anther seen from below, 5 pollinia; ай 
enlarged. 
9. RIDES MULTIFLORUM, Roxb. Согот. РІ. HL 09 k X(L, 
. Вет 4 to 10 in. long, stout. Leaves narrowly oblong, conduplicate, recurved, 
slightly tapered to the oblique bifid: apex, not narrowed to the base, frequently 
‘flushed with a reddish tinge; length 6 to 10 in., breadth °75 to 1:95 in. Hacemes 
longer than the leaves, simple, axillary, densely many-flowered ; the peduncle long and 
with distant short sheaths. Flowers :75 in. in diam, Sepals and petals sub-equal, 
oblong, blunt. Lip twice as long as the sepals, entire, triangular, adnate to the base 
of the column, the margins erose, the apex acute or blunt; its basal half thick and 
with a retrorse tooth or callus pointing across the mouth of the rectangularly bent 
spur. Column with its margins thickened and slightly winged near the base, foot none. 
Anther depressed and with a long curved beak in front; pollicia globular, caudicle 
filiform, gland very narrow. Roxb. Flora Indica, III, 475; Belg. Hortic. 1876, 286; 
Reichb. #1, in Walp. Ann. VI, 897; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 44. Æ. afine, Wall. 
Cat. 7316; Lindl. Gen. and Spec. Orch. 239; Sert. Orchid., t. 15; іп Journ. Linn. 
Soc, III, 41; Bot. Mag., t. 4049; Warner Sel. Orch. Ser. Ite Rt. Ж. roseum, Lodd. ex 
Paxt. Fl. Gard. П, 109, t. 60; Regel Gartenflora VIII,- 253, t. 267. Æ. Lobbii, Hort. 
ex Ш. Hort. 1868, t. 559. Æ. Veitehii, Hort. ex Morven in Belg. Hortic. 1876, 291. 
«Ж. trigonum, , Klotzch in Otto and Diet. Allgem. Gartenz, 1855, 177. | 
a j Sikkim, ш tropical valleys; in flower during April; Pantling No. 446. Assam; 
