288 ORCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM.HIMALAYA. 
hyaline bases; length of blade 1°5 to 1/75. in., breadth ‘5 to °6 in.; petiole and 
sheath about 1 in. Peduncle about as long as the stem, with one or two short tubular 
sheaths, puberulous.  Zaceme 2 to З in. long, sparsely-flowered, the rachis puberulous. 
Flowers sub-globular, “2 inches long; floral bract broadly-lanceolate, acuminate, as long 
as the stout ovary. , Sepals sub-equal, ovate, acute.. Petals broader, obliquely ovate, 
acute. Гір longer than the sepals, saccate at the base, the sac with two lamelle 
towards the midrib and a large callus on each side behind the lamelle; the anterior 
part tapering to the decurved 2-lobulate apex; the lobules obliquely ovate, sub-acute. 
Column short and thick, with two vertical fleshy plates each divided into rectangular 
membranous wings below, rostellum short. Anther ovate, obtuse; pollinia clavate, the 
apices emarginate and the surfaces vertically grooved, sub-sessile on a narrowly elliptic 
gland. Hook. fil. Ic. Plantar. t. 2178. <Aetheria abbreviata, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7385; 
Gen. and Spec. Orch., 491.  .Efaería lanceolata, Reichb. fil. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 
XXX, 142. Dossinia lanceolata, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. бос. I, 186. 
Bhotan, in the Dooars at Ambiok, elevation about 4,000. feet; in flower during 
September; Pantling No. 346, Nepal; Wallich. Кһаѕіа Hills, at elevations from 4,000 
to 5,000 feet; Hooker. 
The sepals are pale brown and the petals pure white; the anterior part of the lip 
is also white, but the basal portion as well as the anther are pale yellow; at the base 
of the column are two brown spots. 
Prate 383.—Zeuzine abbreviata, Benth. А plant, of natural size. Fig. 1 bract, ovary and flower, 
2 apex of ovary, column with anther in situ, lip and stigma, 3 petals, 4 section of lip showing опе 
of the basal calli and one of the lamelle (/), 5 apex of ovary, showing the column, rostellum (7), and 
stigma (з), 6 pollinia; ай enlarged. 
5. ZEUXINE GLANDULOSA, new species. 
Whole plant 6 to 9 in. high. Stem bearing a few lax hyaline sheaths. Leaves 
oblong-lanceolate, acute, with a short petiole expanding into a wide hyaline sheath; 
length of blade 1 to 1:5 in., breadth :25 to :35 in. Peduncle short, pubescent, bearing 
two lanceolate glabrous bracts. Raceme about 1 in. long, densely glandu'ar-pubescent. 
Flowers *2 in. across; floral bract broadly ovate, bluntly acuminate, shorter than or 
equal to the densely glandular-pubescent ovary. Sepals connivent, ovate, acute, sub-equal, 
sparsely glandular-pubescent, the dorsal very concave. Petals sub-rotundly dimidiate, 
sub-oblique, each with a long terminal apiculus. Zip as long as the sepals, widely 
saccate at the base, the interior of the sac with a row of three lamellar calli on 
each side and an incurved conical tooth on each margin. Column with very large 
lamellate processes having their apices projecting forward, incurved, and touching; 
rostellum broad, projecting ; pollinia pyriform, bifid and deeply grooved, attached to а 
large oblong elliptic gland having a small viscid area on its under surface. Stiymas 
two, small, narrowly oblong, situated near the base of the rostellum. 
. Bhotan Dooar near the Jaldacca river, at an elevation of about 2, 000 feet; in flower 
during March; Pantling No. 434. 
The prevailing colour in the flowers of this is olivaceous green, the column and 
the central contracted part of the lip being white. | 
` This species is allied to Z. nervosa, Benth., but differs from that in having smaller 
leaves of a blackish-purple colour, shorter peduncle and raceme, and smaller flowers. 
