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calli; the claw narrow and bearing about six pairs of coarse teeth on each side; 
the apical lobe divided by a broad deep sinus into two diverging obliquely-oblong. | 
or sub-quadrate truncate undulate lobules. Column stout with two parallel appendages 
in the neck of the spur. Anther beaked; pollinia oblique, unequal, clavate but flattened, 
pseudo-caudicle short; gland situated on one side of the twisted beak of the anther. 
Stigmas confluent in front of the column. Odontochilus Elwesii, Clarke ex Hook, fil. Fl. 
Br. Ind. ҮІ, 100; Hook. fil. Ic. Plantar., t. 2167. 
Sikkim, at Choongthang, Tendong, Pankasari, &c., at elevations of from about 3,000 
to 6,000 feet; Clarke, King, Pantling No. 221; in flower during July and August. 
Khasia Hills, at Shillong; Clarke. Naga Hills, at Kohima; Prain No. 17. 
There is some variation in the colouring of the flowers and leaves of this 
species. The common form in Sikkim has the sepals green with white midribs and 
brown tips, and the petals white, also tipped with brown. The lip is white, but the 
teeth of the claw are brown and the basal sac is green. The leaves are of a 
uniform brown, as also is the axis. Dr. Prain, who made careful notes on the plant 
as it grows at Kohima in the Naga Hills, describes the sepals as coloured like those 
of the Sikkim plant; the petals being green and the claw of lip yellow for the 
most part, but having a red central line and its teeth being greenish-yellow, the 
apical lobules being white. The leaves he describes as olive green on the upper 
surface and coppery on the lower. 
PraTE 394.—Ane:tochilus E’wesii, King and Pantling. А plant, of natural size Fig. 1 the sepals 
and petals separated, 2 the lip with its sae and the apex of the ovary and column, see» from abore, 
3 anterior surface of column and apex of ovary; portion of the sac of the lip, the anterior part having 
been removed so as to show one of the teeth within it and the eolumnar appendages, also the gland of 
the pollinia (y), 4 anther with the pollinia in situ and polliniar gland (g), 5 empty anther, 6 pollinia 
with gland (7), 7 the base of the pollinia to show the relation of the gland (9) ; ай enlarged. 
6. Ахжстоснпдя CRISPUS, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. I, 180. 
Whole plant 5 to 8 inches high. Stem decumbent at the base, slender. Leaves 
few, ovate, acute, the edges minutely undulate, length *5 to :75 in.; petiole *35 to :65 
in long, dilated at the base. Peduncle much shorter than the stem, pubescent and 
with one or two pubescent lanceolate sheaths with acuminate apices and tubular bases. 
Spike 4- to 8-flowered. Flowers ‘7 in. long; floral bract pubescent, lanceolate, about as 
long as the glabrous ovary. Sepals unequal, pubescent; the dorsal convex, its apex 
upturned; the lateral pair longer, spreading, oblong, with obliquely sub-acute apices. 
Petals triangular-faleate, conniving under the dorsal sepal Lip deflexed from the base 
with а small globular sac at the base connected with the apical lobe by а long narrow 
untoothed claw; the apical lobe sub-rotund, divided by a shallow sinus into two broad 
lobules, the edges undulate and minutely crenulate or dentate, the interior of the sac with 
two large sub-quadrate erose lamella. | Column and rostellar arms short. Anther broad, 
with a narrow pointed beak; pollinia sub-globose; the pseudo-caudicle large, broad, and 
composed of cohering imbricating scales without elastic threads; | gland small, quadrate. 
Stigmas anticous and parallel. Odontochilus crispus, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 99; Hook. 
fil. Ie. Plant., t. 2164. | 
* Sikkim, on Mahalderam peak, at an elevation of about 6,000 feet; in flower during 
` September; Pantling No. 294.  Khasia hills at 5,000 feet; Clarke. 
Axx. Roy. Bor. Garp, Carccrra, Vou, VIII. 
