974 ORCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM-HIMALAYA. 
clavate bi-auriculate tip, rostellum bifid; stigma single, two-lobed, anticous. Ат ег 
dorsal, vertical, 2-celled, the lip acuminate; pollinia long, narrow, deeply grooved, tapering 
slightly to the thin caudicle, gland peltate. Capsule linear or fusiform. Species six; all 
tropical. 
CoRYMBIS VERATRIFOLIA, Reichb. fil.in Flora XLVIII (1865), 184, 
Stem З or 4 feet high and °З in. thick, Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, caudate-acuminate, 
sessile on the long ridged sheaths, length 12 to 18 in., breadth 3 to 4 in. Panicles 3 or 
4 in. long, few-flowered, Flowers 1:25 to 15 in. long; the bracé lanceolate, acuminate, 
shorter than the sessile ovary. Sepals Ta EHE A acute, the upper half with 
inflexed edges. Petals like the sepals but flat and slightly shorter. Zip as long as the 
sepals with a long linear claw adpressed to the column; the apical lobe orbicular, slightly 
apiculate, the edges finely erose and minutely undulate. Column narrowly cylindric, the 
apex dilated; stigma with two deflexed lobes. Anther fleshy; pollinia attached by а 
slender caudicle to an elliptic gland. Hook. fil. Fl Br. Ind. VI, 91. С. disticha, 
Lindl. Fol Orch. 1 (іп part). Macrostylis disticha, Breda Gen. and Spec. Orch. Javan., 
t. 2. Hysteria veratrifolia, Reinw. in Bot. Zeit. for 1825, IT, 5; Lindl. Gen. and Spec. 
Orch. 439. Rhyncanthera paniculata, Blume Bijdr., t. 78. Corymborchis veratrifolia, Blume 
Orch. Archp. Ind., 105 tt. 42 E, and 43 f. 1. ©. assamica, Blume l. с. 100, t. 43, 
f. 2 А. and B. 
Sikkim, at elevations of 1,500 to 2,500 feet, in swampy ground; Pantling No. 475. 
Assam, Burma, the Andaman ind Nicobar Islands. Distrib. Perak, Sumatra, Java, New 
Guinea, 
The flowers are white in colour, and Берн: 
PLATE 354.—Corymbis veratrifolia, Blume. Part of a plant, of natural size; an entire plant, much 
reduced in size. Fig. 1 a flower, 2 bract, ovary, column and lip, side view, 3 lip, 4 upper part of 
column, front view, 5 side view of the same, showing polliniar gland (g), stigma e, with its two lobes 
(/ and anther (а), 6 under surface of anther, 7 pollinia; all enlarged. 
77. 'Tropidia, Lindl. 
"Terrestrial herbs with erect, often branching s/ems, glabrous, membranous, plicate, 
usually many-nerved leaves with sheathing petioles. Flowers resupinate, small, in terminal 
or leaf-opposed bracteate spikes. Sepals connivent; the lateral pair more or less connate, 
the dorsal (ventral in: actual position) free. Petals similar to the sepals but usually 
smaller. Zip superior, adnate to the column, cymbiform or produced into a cylindric 
blunt spur, oblong, without side lobes, the apex reflexed, the disc with short or long 
intramarginal ridges or lamelle. Column short or long; the rostellum very long, erect, 
often bifid. Stigma single, anticous. Anther erect, dorsal, acute or acuminate, the cells 
contiguous; pollinia two, narrow, clavate or cylindric, grooved or even bifid, attached 
by а single long slender caudicle to & narrow gland, Capsule cylindric-clavate, Species 
тен Indian, Malayan and Chinese. 
| ‘Lip spurred, leaves broadly elliptic . ee Gv EE S TC aap. 
Lip not spurred, leaves narrowly elliptio-oblong e s. & Т. curculigoides, 
