RHYNCHOSTYLIS. 213 
The ground colour of the flowers is white, but they are freely marked with 
pink or purple. The species is closely allied to Æ. Fielding, Lodd., but that is a 
more robust plant and has wider leaves, which are flat. Its ту moreover, are 
rather larger. Æ. Fieldingii has not been recorded from Sikkim. 
Prate 283.-- rides multiflorum, Roxb. A ‘flowering plant, of natural size. Fig. 1 a flower, 
2 side view of bract, stalked ovary, column and lip, 3 lip showing the callus (с) at the point of insertion 
on the column, 4 column, 5 empty anther, 6 pollinia; all enlarged. 
49, Rhynchostylis, Blume. 
Epiphytie. Stem elongate, stout, leafy. Leaves very coriaceous, linear-oblong, truncately 
or bluntly bilobed at the apex. Ласетез pendulous, many-flowered. Flowers brightly 
coloured. Sepals and petals spreading, broad, obtuse, the petals narrower than the sepals. 
Lip adnate to the short foot of the column, the hypochile forming a deep wide 
pubescent sac without side lobes; the epichile obovate, acute, concave, the margins erect. 
Column short, stout, dilated at the base and with a very short foot. The stigma small. 
Anther terminal, rounded; pollinia two, elliptic, attached by a slender long caudicle to 
the small oblong gland. Species two or three, Malayan and Indian. 
REYNCHOSTYLIS RETUSA, Blume Bijdr. 286, t. 49. 
Stem stout, clothed in the sheaths of decayed leaves, 4 to 8 in. long. Leaves 
curved, keeled, preemorse or bluntly bilobed; length 6 to 18 in., breadth about 1 in. 
Racemes longer than the leaves, cylindric, densely-flowered, the аф short with а 
few small scattered sheaths. Flowers “75 in. across, the spur compressed, equal in length 
to the lip. Lateral sepals broadly ovate, obtuse or apiculate, the dorsal oblong. Capsule 
` clavate, 1 to 1:5 in. long. Hook. fil Fl Br. Ind. VI, 32. R. premorsa, Blume Bijdr. 
286. В. guttata, Reichb. fil. in Bonplandia П, 93. R. garwalica, Reichb. fil. in Walp. 
Ann. VI, 888. Saccolabium guttatum, Lindl. in Wall. Cat, 7308; Gen. and Spec. Orch. 
220; in Journ. Linn. Soc. IIT, 32; Bot. Mag., t. 4108; Wight Ie. tt. 1745-6; Dalz. 
and Gibs. Fl. Bomb. 263; De Xue Orch. t. 14; Griff. Ie. Pl. Asiat. Notul. 22, t. 8 
and 9. JS. premorsum, Lindl Gen. and Spec. біз; 291. 8. Rheedii, Wight Іс. V, 19. 
JS. retusum, Flore des Serres, tt. 1463-4, А. Най, Hort. ex Gard. Chron. 1885, П, 
369. 8. Blumei, Lindl. Sert., t. 47; іп Bot. Reg. 1841, mise, 55. S. gurwalicum, Lindl. 
in Journ. Linn, Soc. III, 32; in Gard. Chron. 1879, II, 102. Sarcanthus guttatus, Lindl. 
in Bot. Reg., t. 1443. rides guttatum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ІП, 471; Regel Gartenflora, 
1863, 415. Æ. retusum, Swartz in Schrad. Dar. 1799, 130; Willd. Sp. Plant. IV, 
130; Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl. 204. Æ. spicatum, Don Prod. Fl. Мор. 91. Æ. premorsum, 
Willd. 1. с.; Grah. Cat. Bomb, РІ. 204. —Limodorum retusum, Swartz іп Nov. Act, Upsal. 
VI, 80. Epidendrum retusum, Linn. Sp. Plant, 953. 
Sikkim, common in tropical valleys and ascending to 3,500 feet; Pantling, No. 442; 
along the base of the H imalaya westward to мысты апа санад to Bhotan. 
In a: the Khasia Hills, Burma, Southern India, Ceylon and the Malayan Archi- 
The flowers are white or pink, variously marked with purple or violet. The 
hypochile of the lip forms a sac varying iu length; the epichile also varies in shape, 
