286 ORCHIDS OF THE SIXKIM-HIMALAYA. 
|. ZEUXINE PULCHRA, King and Pantling in Journ. As. Soc. Beng., 
Vol. bXVi PE. 3, 197. 
Height of the whole plant about 6 or 8 inches. Stem 1:5 to 2:5 in. long. Leaves 
three or four, rather crowded, ovate, sub-acute, coriaceous; length about 1 in., breadth 
"65 to ‘75 in.; the petiole short, broad and sheathing at the base. Peduncle of the spike 
3 in. long, covered with sparse flexuose white hairs and bearing two sheathing acute 
bracts about "35 in. long. Spike under 1 in. long, 2- to 3-flowered ; floral bract lanceolate, 
membranous, sparsely pubescent, shorter than the pubescent ovary. Flowers about °35 in. 
long. S2pals ovate-lanceolate, all free, spreading and pubescent outside. Petals obliquely 
lanceolate, acute, curved, spreading. Lip longer than the sepals, the basal part 
cymbiformly saccate, having a single pair of teeth situated at the margin near the base 
and two calli within the sac; the terminal lobe deeply divided into two large divergent 
cuneate-subquadrate lobules erose on the outer margin. Column with eight tooth-like erect 
processes in front; stigmas united to form a narrow band across the column. 
Sikkim, Lachoong Valley, 7,500 feet elevation; flowering in August; Pantling | 
No. 412. ! 
Only two spscimens have as yet Әсел gathered of this plant. The dorsal sepal 
does not cohere with the petals, and the stigmas are united to form an anticous 
band; but in all other respects this has the characters of the other species of the genus 
to which we have referred it. : 
The colour of the sepals and petals is pale brown, the lower part of the lip being 
yellow and its apical lobes white. The leaves are of a blackish-purple on the upper 
surface, the midrib being white. с 
Pyare. 880.—Zeuxine pulchra, King and Pantling. А plant, of natural size. Fig. 1 а flower, 2 the 
petals, 3 upper surface of lip, 4 posterior surface of the column, showing the anther in situ, 5 front 
of the column, showing the united stigmas (s) and the processes, 6 lower surface of empty anther; ай 
enlarged. ж TE 
2. JZEUXINE SULCATA, Lindl. Gen. and Spec. Orch., 485. 
Whole plant 2 to 10 in. Stem passing into the peduncle and, like it, glabrous. 
Leaves linear, acuminate, clasping, sessile on the hyaline truncate sheaths, gradually passing 
into linear bracts upwards. Raceme "5 to 2 in. long, densely-flowered, nearly glabrous ; 
floral bract ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, much longer than the ovary. Sepals unequal; 
the dorsal the broader, concave, ovate; the lateral pair obliquely lanceolate, connivent. 
Petals, like the lateral sepals, faleately oblong, blunt, united with the dorsal sepal to form 
a hood over the column. Гір as long as the sepals, with a small cymbiform sac at its 
base bearing inside two inward-pointing teeth, and two narrow lamellae near the midrib; 
apical lobe short, sub-quadrate, entire and with a fleshy convexity situated within the 
outer angles Column very short, with two wings at its apex covering the anther ; arms 
of rostellum short, stout, parallel. Anther depressed, very shortly beaked, covered by the 
wings of the column; pollinia clavate, sessile on an oblong gland. Lindl. in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. I, 186; Griff. Notul. III, 396; Ic. Plant. Asiat., t. 349; Blume Flora Jave, Orchid. 
55; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. ІП, 723; Hook. #1. Fl. Br. Ind VI, 106. Zeuxine bracteata, 
2. brevifolia and 2. robusta, Wight Іс, 1724 bis, 1725, 1726. 2. membranacea, Lindl. 
Gen. and Spec, Orch, 486; in Journ Linn, Soe. I, 186; Blume Orchid. Flor. Javze, 56. 
