262 ' ORCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM-IIMALAYA. 
stigma with an overlapping regolari -lobulate edging. Anther 2-celled; polinis cohermg 
in two pairs, mealy. 
Sikkim, at Sin-ga-lela and Mon Lepcha; elevation about 14,000 feet; Pantling 
No. 462, in flower during July and August; King’s Collector No. 4459. 
The flowers of this, the largest species ‘of the genus yet obtamed іп India, are 
yellowish-red in colour: The specific name is given on account of the very high eleva- 
tions at which the plant grows. A specimen of it collected in 1877 (King’s Collector 
No. 4459) was sent to the late Professor Reichenbach, who, however, never described 
it. When. his great Herbarium shall be exhumed after its twenty-five years sepulture 
in Vienna, this plant will probably be found to bear а Reichenbachian manuscript 
name. 
Prate 347.—Aphyllorchis alpina, King and Pantling. Rhizome, part of the stem, and the 
inflorescence of а plant; of materal six. Fig. 1 æ flower, 2 floral bract, ovary, columm with anther 
in situ, and lip, 3 lip, 4 columm showing the sac at its base formed with the daw of m lip, the 
stigma with its lobulate margin, and the anther, 5 empty anther; all enlarged. 
2. APHYLLORCHIS PARVIFLORA, King and Pantling in Journ. As. Soc. Bong. j 
Vol. LXV, pt. 2, 128. 
Height of entire plant about 10 inches, glabrous. Rhizom2 short, with many fibrous 
fascicled rootlets. Stem erect, about `1 in. thick, leafless, but with four or five sheathing 
bracts “5 to 95 in. long. Клсет? about 2 in. long, many-flowered, the rachis stout. 
Flowers “15 in. across, the labellum superior; floral bract lanceolate, shorter than the 
straight untwisted tumid ovary. Sepals sub-equal, linear, acuminate, spreading, their 
apices recurved; petals similar but smaller, all keeled externally. Lip ovate, the base 
broad, obscurely lobed, sub-acute, concave. Column very Short, rostellum prominent ; 
anther with reflexed margins. Pollinia two, clavate, the grains loosely cohering. 
Sikkim in the Lachoong T at an elevation of 10,000 feet ; flowering time J uly; ^ 
Pantling No. 383. . 
The ovary of this not having the usual half-twist, the labellum is superior. The 
whole plant is of a pale brown, n ак, the anther which is white, and the pollinia 
which are yellow. . 
Рглте 348.—Aphyllorchis parviflora, King and Pantling. A plant, of natural size. Fig. 1 a flower, 
2 bract, ovary, column and lip, showing the anther (a), the pollinia (p) and the rostellum (r), seem 
from the side, 3 lip, 4 apex of ovary, columm with anther iw situ, 5 inside view of an anther, the margins | 
being reflexed, 6 pollinia; ай enlarged. 
3. APHYLLORCHIs MONTANA, Reichb. fil. in Linnea xii, 97. 
Stem about 24 in. high, glabrous near the base and bearing 6 to 10 unequal short 
blunt tubular sheaths; pubescent in the upper part and bearing a few distant ovate- 
lanceolate acute sheaths not tubular at the base. Racemz 4 to 6 in. long, bearing 8” 
to 14 distant flowers about ‘75 in. across; the ovary 75 Bác: x in. long, its stalk very 
short and twisted; the floral . bract linear, spreading, about “5 in. long. Sepals sub- 
equal, oblong, blunt; the dorsal concave, overhanging the column; the lateral pair 
curved, :spreading, i EE Petals: slightly longer than the. sepals, oblong, blunt, 
spreading, Lip somewhat longer than the sepals, ovate oblong, shortly clawed at the 
