296 | ORCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM-HIMALAYA. 
4. ANGCTOCHILUS GRANDIFLORUS, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 1, 179. 
Whole plant 12 to 18 in. high; the stem decumbent at the base, succulent, "35 іп, 
thick, glabrous; the roots stout and very hairy. Leaves elliptic or elliptic-rotund, some- 
times oblique, sub-acute, many-nerved, narrowed to the long stout petiole; length 2-75 to 
3-75 in., breadth 1:5 to 2 in.; petiole 1'4 to 1:75 in. Peduncle 2 to 2°5 in. long, sparsely 
pubescent, and with two or three broad sheathing ovate bracts. Хасете longer than the 
peduncle, laxly many-flowered, the rachis laxly pubescent. Flowers "75 in. long; floral bract 
ovate-lanceolate, convolute, glabrescent, about half as long as the glabrous ovary. Sepals 
unequal, glabrous; the dorsal ovate, concave; the lateral pair slightly larger, spreading, 
oblong, somewhat falcate, sub-acute, connate with each other at the base and with the 
sac of the lip. Petals about as large as the dorsal sepal, falcately oblanceolate, bluntly 
acuminate. Lip with a rather long oblong horizontal sac or spur at the base decurrent 
on the ovary; the claw long and with distant and unequal teeth on each side; apical 
lobe with two oblong diverging lobules with truncate erose apices; the sinus very wide 
and with a minute apiculus at its apex; the sac with a lateral sub-quadrate apiculate 
callus on each side in its interior. Column short, with two narrow appendages; rostellum 
large, broad, bifid. Anther much pointed; ‘pollinia clavate, compressed, the apices 
emarginate, united below and joined directly to the small gland by a long pseudo- 
caudicle. Stigmas two, coajoined, aaticous. Odontochilus grandiflorus, Benth. in Gen. 
Plantar. ІШ, 598; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 100. 
Sikkim, at elevations of from 4,000 to 6,000 feet; Hooker; at Tendong, Pantling 
No, 325; in flower during July. Khasia Hills; Hooker and Thomson. 
The sepals and petals are pale green, mottled with white and tipped with pink. 
The lip is white, the teeth of the claw being green and the sac being flushed with 
yellow; the column is green below and pink above. The leaves on both surfaces are 
pure green. The flowers at the middle of the raceme are occasionally the first to open, 
expansion proceeding upwards and downwards simultaneously as shown in the plate. 
Prate 393.--Anestochilus grandiflorus, Lindl. A plant, of natural size. Fig. 1 a flower, scen 
from above, 2 apex of ovary, spur of lip, column and anther, scen from the side, the stigma (s), the 
rostellum and the gland of the pollinia (gy), З front of column with the transverse united stigmas and 
the gland of the pollinia (0), 4 the petals, 5 section of column and spur, showing one of the calli in 
the interior of the latter, 6 pollinia; ай enlarged. 
5. Аха«стоснплв Егмевп, King and Pantling. 
Whole plant 8 to 10 in. high. Sm rather stout, decumbent at the base, 
glabrous, eaves six or seven, ovate, acute, narrowed at the base, 3-nerved, the 
margins hyaline, length 1-25 to 1-75 in.; petiole about °5 in., expanded at the base. 
Peduncle shorter than the stem, clothed with long soft glandular hairs and bearing 
several lanceolate acuminate bracts. Raceme shorter than the peduncle and, like 
it and the floral bracts and ovaries, glandular-hairy. Flowers two or three, about 
1 in. long; floral bract lanceolate, as long as the ovary. S2pals unequal, the dorsal 
ovate-cordate, sub-acute; the lateral pair much larger, broadly oblong, sub-faleate, 
blunt, diverging. Petals broadly oblong, falcate, acute, about as long as the dorsal 
but much shorter than the lateral sopa's, I-nerved, and with a few long hairs outside. 
| The basal sac of the lip shallow, shortly bifid, aad containing within it two conical 
