TROPIDIA. 975 
1.  TROPIDIA ‘ANGULOSA, Blume Orch. Archipel. Ind, 122. 
Stem 8 to 12 in. high, slender, erect, clothed with obtuse sheaths an inch or more 
in length, and bearing at the apex two broadly elliptic plicate many-nerved leaves 
with acute apices and widely sheathing bases, 4 or 5 in. long and 2 to 3 in. broad. 
Spike solitary, terminal, conical, shorter than the leaves, its peduncle bearing 
numerous linear spreading bracts nearly as long as the flowers. Flowers resupinate, , 
crowded, *65 in. long; floral bract lanceolate, caudate-acuminate, curving upwards, longer 
than the sessile ovary. Sepals sub-equal, oblong-lanceolate, the lateral pair connate 
nearly to the apex.  Peí4ls somewhat smaller and less acute. Lip about as long as 
the petals, oblaneeolate-oblong, obtuse, entire, concave towards the base, adnate to the 
column, the base with a cylindrie blunt spur half as long as and parallel to the column. 
Column short; the rostellum and anther very long, lanceolate, acuminate; р>Піліа clavate- 
cylindric, elongate, deeply grooved, united below; the caudicle long and slender; gland 
linear, half as long as the caudicle, Capsule clavate-cylindric, boldly ridged, ‘75 in. 
long. Hook. fil, Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 92. 7. Govindovii and Т, semilibera, Blume 1. c. 
Decaisnea angulosa, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7388. Слетіліі angulosa and б. semilibera, 
Lindl. Gen. and Spec. Orch. 463.  Govíndovia nervosa, Wight Ic. 2090. 
Sikkim, in the valley of the Teesta, at elevations of about 1,000 to 2,000 feet; in 
flower during September and October; Pantling No. 349. Sylhet, Assam, Upper 
Burma and Tenasserim; also in Malabar and Travancore. 
The flowers are white flushed with pale ochre-colour. 
Puare 305.—Tropidia angulost, Blume, Root and upper part of a plant, of natural size, Fig. 1 
ovary and flower, 2 the conjoined lateral sepals, З floral bract, ovary, column, anther and lip, side vw, 
4 lip, 5 apex of ovary, column with dhther in situ, profile view, 6 view of the under surface of the 
column, showing the stigma, 7 anther, 8 pollinia; ай enlarged, 
2. 'TROPIDIA CURCULIGIOIDES, Lindl. in Wall, Cat. 7380A; Gen. and Spec. 
Orch. 497, 
Stem 1 to 2 feet high, slender, erect, sometimes branching. Leaves narrowly elliptic, 
tapering to each end, acuminate, sessile on the sheath, many-nerved, 3'5 to 6 in. 
long and *65 to 1:25 in. wide. Spikes terminal and leaf-opposed, very short, 
bracteate, not exceeding :75 іп. in length, Flowers ‘$5 in. long, laxly scurfy- 
pubescent like the bracts and ovaries; floral bract ovate-lanceolate, equalling the short 
sessile ovary.  S'pals sub-equal, lanceolate, acuminate, sub-connivent. Petals as long 
as the sepals, the midrib on the outer surface stout, falcately ovate-lanceolate, Lip 
narrowly oblong, tapering to the apex, concave, adnate to the footless column, as 
long as the lateral sepals, bi-gibbous at the base, without side lobes, its apex decurved; 
upper surface with intramarginal ridges about the middle. Column stout, the clinandrium 
broadly triangular. Antier fleshy; pollinia two, narrowly elliptic, the caudicle rather 
short and pubescent, the gland small. Hook. fil Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 93. Т, assamica, 
Blume Fl. Jave, Orchid. 104, t. 41, 
Sikkim, at Sembree, elevation 1,000 feet; in flower during November; Pantling 
` Ko. 180. Sylhet, Assam and Burmah. 
Axx. Roy, Bor. блкр., Сатсотта, Vor. VIII. 
