276 ORCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM-HIMALAYA. 
The flowers are white, faintly tinged with pale yellow. The anther is of a deep 
yellow. 
Р лт 366.—Tropidia curculigiotdes, Lindl. Parts of a plant, of natural size. Fig. 1 floral нав: 
ovary and flower, seen from the side, 2 apex of ovary, column with anther in situ, and lip, side view, 
3 lip, 4 apex of ovary, column and anther, 5 anther, 6 pollinia; all enlarged. 
78. Herpysma, Lindl. 
. A terrestrial herb with leafy succulent stem, decumbent at the base. Leaves 
membranous, elliptic or ovate-lanceolate, petioled; the sheaths tubular, hyaline. Flowers 
crowded in a short sub-sessile raceme. Sepals sub-equal, free, puberulous, ovate-oblong, 
the dorsal forming a hood with the oblong petals. Lip adnate to the apex and sides 
of the column, its base with a long narrowly cylindric spur bifid at the apex and 
without calli in its interior. Column short, without appendages; the rostellum short, 
erect, bifid. Anther erect, narrow, 2-celled; pollinia two, narrow, elongate, bipartite at 
the apex only, each attached to a narrow tapering gland. Stigma one, anticous. А 
single species. 
НЕВРҮЗМА LoxGICAULIS, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7389; in Bot. Reg. . 
under t. 1618. 
Stem, including the decumbent part, 9 to 15 in. long and from 9 to "95 in. thick, 
the part under the leaves bearing pale truncate pubescent unequal membranous sheaths. 
Leaves ovate-lanceolate or narrowly-elliptic, tapering to each end, 2 to 3:5 in. long 
and 775 to 15 in. broad. Petiole about “95 in. „ its sheath 1 in. or more in length. 
Raceme pubescent, 1 to 1:95 in. long, sessile. Flowers about "5 in. long, their ovaries 
longer; floral bracet large, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, nerved, exceeding the ovary. Lip 
oblong, deflexed from the middle, with. two rounded toothed erect basal lobes; the 
apical lobe sub-quadrate, its apex with a broad blunt apiculus; the disc with two 
flattish calli about the middle and a lamella between them extending to the tip; 
the spur nearly as long as the ovary and parallel to it. Column short, contracted below 
the broad pulvinate central stigma. Pollinia elongated, each inserted at the base within 
a horn-like process ending in a gland, pollen-grains flattened. Lindl.: Gen. and Spec. 
Orch., 506; in Journ. Linn. Soc, I, 178, 190; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 98; in Ann. 
Roy. ‘Bot Gard. Cale, Vol. V, 59, t. 88. ң тыз I 
©- Sikkim, above Sureil, at elevations from 8 000 to 5 000 feet ; Hooker; Pantling 
No. 240; in flower during August and September. ді; ; Wallich. Khasia Hills, ar 
4,500 foet ; C. B. Clarke. Daphla Hills; Lister. . 
- The flowers of this. are white, the Чой sepal and іе ded the. upper part 
-of the midrib — or pink, and the lateral sepals being tipped with the same 
‘colour. 
“іі 367. —Herpyema. longicaulis, Lind. А plant, of. natural size. Fig. 1 floral pm and flower, 
2 ovary, column with the anther in situ, the lip and its spur, ‘seen from the side, 8 upper surface of 
tip, 4 view of the back of -the- eolumn, the anther being in jue 5 under surface of, anther, 6 — 
al] enlarged. 
