246 ORCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM-HIMALAYA. 
Sepals ovate, acute. Petais trapeziform, blunt or sub-acute. Zip oblong, slenderly 
attached on the under side and in front of the gibbous base to the ы -produced 
foot of the column (see fig. 2), doubtfully mobile, flat or very slightly deflexed from 
the middle; the apex blunt, bilobulate, the disc smooth throughout. Column very short. 
Anther dorsal, curved, beaked. Stigma а shallow pouch, with an erect acute arm on 
either side; pollinia four, in pairs, each pair held within a funnel-shaped process and 
supported by a slender geniculate free caudicle; the two caudicles attached to the small 
shield-shaped gland. Lindl. Gen. and Spec. Orch. 234; in Journ. Linn. Soc. ІП, 37; 
Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. V, 80. 
Sikkim, at elevations from 2,000 to 3,000 feet; in flower during September and 
October; common; Pantling No. 188. Westward along the range to Nepal; -eastward 
to Assam, Cachar and Burma. | 
The flowers are white, slightly flushed with pink. 
Piare 826.—Podochtlus cultratus, Lindl. A plant, of natural sise. Fig. 1 a flower, 2 side view of 
» ovary, column with anther in sift and lip, 3 petals, 4 lip, 5 column and apex of ovary, 
the stigma (s, 6 empty anther, 7 pollinia; ай enlarged. 
2. Рогоснпов Knasrxus, Hook. fil. Ic. Pl. 2146. 
Stems 4 to 6 in. long, simple, slender, sub-erect. Leaves coriaceous, linear-lanceolate, 
acute, sub-faleate, somewhat tapered to the base and articulated to the very short sheath, 
"85 to “б in. long. Raceme terminal, erect, about :25 in. long. Flowers three or four, 
distichous, “15 in. long; foral bract exceeding the sessile ovary, broadly ovate, acute, 
persistent, Sepals ovate, sub-acute, connate below, the lateral pair forming a short wide 
sac (or mentum) at the base. Petals ovate-oblong, blunt,“ narrowed ‘at the base. Lip 
oblong, sagittate at the base, the narrow basal lobes with a claw between them 
attaching the lip to the column, the margins slightly incurved and minutely ciliolate 
towards the acute apex, the upper surface smooth. Column short, stout; rostellum very 
broad, blunt. Stigma pouched and with a narrow transverse slit for its mouth. Anther 
dorsal; pollinia clavate, each pair enclosed in а funnel-shaped process ending in a short 
free caudicle; the gland large, oblong, bifid below. Hook. #1. Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 81. 
P. microphyllus, Wall. Cat. 7335B; Lindl. Gen. and Spee. Orch. 234 (in part); in 
Journ. Linn. Soe. III, 37. 
Sikkim, on Sittong, at elevations of 5 ,000 to 6,000 feet; in flower during 
September; Pantling No. 187. Khasia Hills; Hooker and Thomson. Assam ; Simons. 
~ Тһе flowers are white slightly flushed pe yellow. The foot of the column is 
produced along the front of the ovary with which it is adnate, and with the lateral 
sepals it forms a small mentum. 
Phare 327.—Podochilus Khasianus, Hook. fil. A-plant, of natural "ise. Fig. 1 a flower, side view, 
2 bract, ovary, column and lip, side view, 3 petals, 4 lip, 5 empty — lower surface, 6 column, 
7 pollinia; ай enlarged. 
60. Risleya, new genus, King and Pantling. 
A small aphyllous terrestrial herb, without tuber or pseudo-bulb. Scape 2 to 5 in. 
long with two sheaths at the base. ı Flowers minute, fleshy, densely crowded in a short 
raceme. Sepals and petals sub-equal, oblong, blunt, spreading. Lip adnate to the base of 
