214 ORCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM.HIMALAYA. 
Roxb. Fl. Ind. ІП, 473. Ornithochilus striatulus, Herb. Cale. Thrixspermum teres, Reichb; 
fil. Xen. Orch. II, 121, 123 (excluding all the synonyms except those given above). 
Sikkim, in tropical valleys at low elevations; Pantling No. 286. Chittagong and 
Tenasserim. 
The sepals and petals of this are yellow with brown spots; the lip is also yellow 
at the base, but its upper surface is white and its tip dark-purple. The flowers are 
sweet-scented. The racemes appear to lengthen and to produce flowers at different periods 
during the year. The individual flowers live, however, only a single day. This is one 
of the plants included in the genus Sarcochilus as enlarged by Mr. Bentham. But, as its 
lip is a spur-like body with a narrow cavity throughout its whole length, and bearing 
at the mouth minute side lobes, we do not think it ought to be reduced to a genus 
which its author cl terised as having a lip with very large side lobes and no spur. 
We do not find any other genus into which it can justly be reduced, and we therefore 
venture to resuscitate for it that originally formed for it by Lindley. 
According to another view of the morphology of the flower of this Plant, the 
whole lip consists of а spur jointed to the foot of the column, and mobile. On this 
view the lip has a narrow cavity extending its whole length and dilated at the apex. 
But, on neither view is the lip like that of Sarcochilus, as Robert Brown (its founder) 
understood that genus. 
Prate 323.—Ornitharium striatulum, Lindl. A plant, of natural size, Fig. 1 the sepals and petals 
separated, 2 lip, front view, 3 vertical section of lip, 4 floral bract, stalked ovary, column, its foot, 
anther in situ, and lip, side view, 5 column and its foot and anther, front view, 6 under surface of anther, 
7 pollinia; ай enlarged. 
58. Teniophyllum, 1 Blume. 
Small stemless epiphytes, leafless when flowering, pseudo-bulb none; roots large, flat, 
greenish. Leaves linear, few, or absent. Scape short, filiform, simple, bearing a few 
minute flowers in a spike. Sepals and petals sub-equal, spreading, free or connate at the 
base, the lateral sepals sometimes attached to the lip. Lip adnate to the base of the 
column, conspicuously saccate or spurred, side lobes short or absent; mid-lobe fleshy, 
broad and short, or elongated and narrow. Column short, thick. Ат ег” 2-celled; pollinia 
four, more or less broadly ovoid, attached in pairs by a caudicle to a gland. Species 
about 15; Indian, Malayan and Australasian. 
Apex of lip with a recurved gers process . . . . . 1. T. retro-spiculatum. 
Apex of lip broad, obtuse . . 0.0. s.c. OB T. cerepidiforme. 
1. TNIOPHYLLUM RETRO-SPICULATUM, King and Pantling. 
Leafless; the roots large, numerous and flat. Scape about "75 in. long, bearing at 
its apex one or two minutely bracteolate flowers “2 in. long. Sepals and petals sub-equal, 
linear-lanceolate, wide-spreading, the lateral sepals inserted on the sides of the lip. Lip 
linear-lanceolate, with a globose spur at the base, the apex with a retrorse tooth, the 
base sub-gibbous, side lobes none, the mouth of the spur contracted. Column very short. 
Pollinia four, broadly elliptic; the caudicle short, dilated below the pollinia, the gland 
ovate. Sarcochilus Ж eset Tu. and —: in. Journ. As. Soc. Beng., = 
LXIV, Pt 2, 340. 
