AN(ECTOCHILUS. 295 
The sepals are olive-green and white; the lip is white, the teeth of the claw 
being green, as are also the column and spur. ‘The upper surface of the leaves is 
of a very dark red colour with a velvety sheen and veined with golden yellow, the 
lower surface is of a uniform dull red. 
| This differs from A. Roxburghii (which it resembles in leaves) in its smaller 
flowers, differently shaped petals and pollinia, also in the terminal lobes of the lip. 
апа in the teeth of the claw which in this are much smaller. Its nearest ally as 
regards floral structure is, however, A. Grifithii, Hook. fil, a species of the Naga Hills, 
which has green leaves without reticulations, and a more distinctly winged claw with 
larger teeth and a longer spur. 
Prate 391.—Anectochilus Sikkimensis, King and Pantling. A plant, of natural size. Fig. 1 а flower, 
2 bract, ovary, column and lip, tn profile, 3 front of column and portion of the spur with the anterior 
‘wall cut away to show the two calli, 4 petals, 5 lower surface of anther, 6 pollinia; all enlargz:. 
8. Аха«стоснп,78 LANCEOLATUS, Lindl. Gen. and Spec. Orch. 499. 
Whole plant 9 to 12 in. high. Stems glabrous, decumbent at the base and with 
а few annular thickenings, Leaves ovate ог ovate-lanceolate, acute or sub-acute, 
narrowed to the base, 1:25 to 295 in. long; petiole “75 to 1 in., with a wide 
tubular or sheathing base. Peduncle short, pubescent, and bearing one or two ovate- 
lanceolate acuminate sheaths, tubular at the base and pubescent, Raceme longer than 
the peduncle, laxly many-flowered, the rachis pubescent. Flowers about ‘75 in. long; 
floral bract ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, sub-glabrous, as long as the glabrous ovary. 
Sepals unequal; the dorsal ovate, acute; the lateral pair larger, ovate-oblong, 1-nerved, 
obtuse, spreading. Petals as large as the dorsal sepal and, with it, forming a hood 
over the column, dimidiately reniform, acuminate. Lip with a globose didymous basal sac 
containing two long spur-like processes ; the claw with seven or eight pairs of oblique 
unequal coarse teeth; the apical lobe with two diverging oblong obliquely truncate lobules, 
the sinus between them broad and minutely apiculate at its apex. Column very short, 
thick, with two obtusely triangular processes; rostellum broad. Anther with an oblique 
recurved beak; pollinia obovoid, united through a sigmoid pseudo-caudicle to the small 
oblong gland ; the pollen grains cuneiform. Stigmas two, large, lateral. Lindl. in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. I, 179. A. luteus, Lindl. 1. c. 179. Odontochilus lanceolatus, Benth. in Gen. 
Plantar. III, 601; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 101; in Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc. V, 59, t. 89. 
` O. favus (error for О. luteus), Benth. Gen. Plantar. III, 598. 
Sikkim, at elevations of from 5,000 to 6,000 feet; Griffith (Kew Distrib. No. 5345); 
Clarke, Gammie, Prain, King, Pantling No. 196 and 461. Yoksum at 7,000 feet; 
Pantling No. 461; in flower during July, August and September. Khasia Hills; Griffth 
(Kew Distrib No. 5352) 
Тһе sepals and petals are of а pa'e green, the dorsal sepal being tinged with 
‘brown; the lip is of a brilliant yellow and the anther is pink. The leaves are green 
with three bright white nerves. 
Puare 299.— Ancctochilus lanceolatus, Lindl. A plant, of natural гім. Fig.'1 а flower, seen /ғот 
glove, 2 side view of floral bract and ovary, column with anther in situ, and base of lip, 3 section o: 
preceding, showing the septum and one of the two spur-like calli inside the sac of the lip, 4 front of 
the columm, showing the anther (a), gland of the pollinia (g), a stigma (s), columnar processes (p), ard 
portion of the sac (с), 9 pollinia; ‘all enlarged, 
