294 ORCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM-HIMALAYA. 
expanded at the base, glabrous like the stem. Peduncle glandular-pubescent, bearing 
three to five scattered oblong sheathing bracts with acuminate apices. Raceme much 
shorter than the peduncle, bearing two to five resupinate flowers about 78 in. long; 
floral bract half as long as the sessile eylindrie ovary, glandular-hairy like the ovary. 
Sepals unequal; the dorsal broadly ovate, acuminate, its apex shortly recurved; the lateral 
pair oblong, acute, all glandular-hairy. Petals smaller than the sepals, obliquely 
oblanceolate with hooked apices. Base of dip adpressed to the face of the column and with 
two ali; claw with seven or eight pairs of slender unequal horizontal fimbris ; 
terminal lobes linear-oblong, blunt, widespreading, recurved. Appendages on the front of 
the column large, parallel, extending from the ovate fleshy rostellum to the spur, 
Stigmas two, elliptic, small. Spur as long as the lateral sepals, tapering to the minutely 
bilobed apex, and having two large wart-like processes inside. Anther acuminate; pollinia 
four, clavate, in two pairs united at their bases and both attached to a lanceolate gland. 
Blume Flore Jave, Orchid, 41, t. 12 B, fig. 2; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 95. 
Chrysobaphus Roxburghiit, Wall. Tent. Fl. Nep, 37, +. 97. 
‘Sikkim, in the bottoms of tropieal valleys and along the base of the range; in flower 
during November; Pantling No. 6. Westward to Kalka and eastward to Bhotan; also 
in Assam, Sylhet and Munipur. 
The sepals and petals are of a very pale pink, almost white, the lip being pure 
white. The leaves have a velvety lustre and are purplish-red with golden reticulations; 
in the mid-area of the leaf the red passes into golden or greenish-yellow tinged with 
Prate 390.—Aneztochilus Roxiurghii, Lindl. A plant in flower, of natural sze. Fig. 1 a flower, 
2 bract, sessile ovary, column, stigma (s) spur and lip, in profile, 3 the petals, 4 front view of the 
column and spur, the anterior wall of the latter having been removed to show the two wart-like processes 
in its interior, also the rostellum (r) and the stigmas (s), 5 empty anther, 6 pollinia; ай enlarged. 
“9. Амжзтосніцв SIKKIMENSIS, King and Pantling Journ. As. Soc. Beng., 
Vol LXV, Pt. 2, 124. 
Whole plant 6 to 9 in. high. Siem procumbent and about :25 in, thick near 
the base, with four or five leaves, glabrous. Leaves elliptic-ovate, acute, narrowed to 
the broadly sheathing petiole; length 2 to 95 in., breadth 1-4о 1:35 in.; petiole “65 
in.; peduncle of the raceme glandular-pubescent and with several distant sheathing 
acuminate bracts “5 in, long. Raceme 1:75 to 2°25 in. long, glandular-pubescent; floral 
bract lanceolate, shorter than the ovaries. Flowers ‘6 in. long. Dorsal sepal oblong, blunt, 
concave; lateral pair oblong, acute, spreading. Petals dimidiate, straight along the inner 
margin, dilated upwards along the outer, and broadly beaked near the apex. Lip 
with two terminal divergent obliquely cuneate lobes; the claw with four pairs of short | 
forward-pointing teeth. Spur short, pouch-like, bifid, the calli within it ovoid. Column 
with two parallel raised lines below the large ovate rostellum resting on a large 
forcipate process, beneath which again are two flat converging calli. Pollinia flattened, 
vurved, oblong, sub-equal in length; the gland embraced by the united bases of the 
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saepe -at 3 em to 5,000 fect elevation; not uncommon ; flowering <i in September; 
