248 ORCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM-HIMALAYA. 
sessile, subtended by а few scarious sheathing bracts. Flowers sparsely pubescent, `1 in. 
long; foral bract small, scarious, much shorter than the ovary. Sepals sub-equal, ovate- 
lanceolate, acute, spreading. Petals broadly lanceolate, acute. Lip narrowly spathulate, 
the claw with undulate edges, the apex clavate; the upper surface with two raised lines 
from base to apex, granular near the apex. Column short, deeply bilobed, each lobe with 
a stigmatic surface on its inner face; the anther lying in the sinus between the lobes 
and on a lower level than the two stigmatic surfaces (? distinct stigmas); foot much 
longer and narrower than the column, and forming with the base of the lip a long narrow 
somewhat curved sac; pollinia eight, clavately ellipsoid, attached to a large membrane 
and that in turn to a cordate gland. Capsule ellipsoid, ‘2 in. long. Reichb. fil. in Walp. 
Ann. VI, 470; Hook. fil Fl. Br. Ind. V, 825. Appendicula teres, Griff. Моб III, 359; 
Ic. Pl. Asiat, t. 332. 
Sikkim, in the valley of the Teesta at an elevation of 1,000 feet; Pantling 
Ко. 229; in flower during May and June. Upper Assam ; Griffith, Watt. Khasia Hills; 
J. D. Hooker. | 
The flowers are white, the end of the lip alone being yellow. The structure of 
the column is very remarkable. It is divided into two lobes by a deep sinus at the 
bottom of which lies the anther, the pollinia being quite concealed, while the gland 
(although visible in front) does not project from the cleft between the lobes. The two 
halves of the stigma lie on the inner or opposing surfaces of the lobes of the column. 
Each is of an obovate acute shape (the broad ends being uppermost); and the two lower 
and acute ends join in the sinus between the lobes, and thus forming a narrow belt 
from which the gland connecting the pollinia is derived. 
PraTE 329.— Ceratostylis teres, Reichb. fil. А plant, of natural size. Fig. 1 side view of a flower, 
2 side view of floral bract, ovary, column and lip, 3 front view of column and its foot (the ovary being 
behind), showing the two lobes of the column with the two stigmatic surfaces (marked s) and of the 
anther, (the gland of the pollinia being marked g), 4 inner surface of one of the lobes of the column, 
showing the stigmatic surface (marked з), 5 the lip, 6 anther, 7 pollinia; all enlarged. 
62. Appendicula, Blume. 
Stems tufted, slender, leafy, often compressed. Leaves numerous, uniform, flat. 
Inflorescence terminal or leaf-opposed, short. Flowers in racemes spikes or heads, minute ; 
floral bract persistent. Sepals connivent, the lateral pair connate at the base and adnate 
to the long foot of the column to form a mentum. Petals linear, elliptic-oblong or 
obovate. Lip erect, adnate to the foot and sometimes to the sides of the column. 
Column very short; rostellum erect, bifid. Anther dorsal, erect; pollinia eight, (four 
often imperfect), attached by fours to a slender elongate caudicle and small gland. 
Capsule minute. Species about forty; tropical Asiatic, Australian and Polynesian. 
APPENDICULA BIFARIA, Lindl. in Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. VII (1855), 35. 
Stems slender, unbranched, 10 to 24 in. long. Leaves lanceolate, sub-acute, minutely 
bilobulate at the apex and often apiculate between the lobules; the base sessile and 
jointed to the short sheath; length “9 to 1-25 in., breadth -35 to `4 in. Racemes chiefly 
terminal, rarely leaf-opposed, half an inch long, or shorter, 6- to 8-flowered. Flowers "15 
