298 ORCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM-HIMALAYA. 
The sepals are green, the petals and lip being white, the latter tinged with yellow 
' оп the sac. This has the toothless lip-claw of Zeuzine conjoined with the pseudo- 
caudicular pollinia and twisted rostellum so characteristic of Aneetochilus, 
Prate 395.—Anectochilus crispus, Lindl, A plant, of natural size. Fig. 1 a flower, 2 floral bract, 
ovary, column and base of lip, 3 the petals, 4 apex of ovary, and front of column, showing the two 
contiguous anticous stigmas (s), 9 interior of the sac of the lip, showing the calli in the interior, б anther, 
7 pollinia ; all enlarged. 
7. ANacTocHILus Tortus, King and Pantling. 
Whole plant 6 or 7 in. high. Stem decumbent at the base, stout, bearing four or five 
leaves. Leaves green, 3-nerved, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acute, slightly oblique, narrowed 
at the base into the channelled sheathing petiole; length about 2 in., breadth ‘75 to 1 
in.; petiole “75 in. Peduncle of the raceme pubes:ent and bearing a solitary acuminate 
pubescent bract. Spite about l:5 in. long, 3- to 6-flowered; floral brací lanceolate, 
acuminate, thinly pubescent, equalling the ovary. Flowers ‘75 in. long. Dorsal 
sepal broadly ovate, concave, forming with the petals a hood over the column; the 
lateral pair oblong. blunt and spreading, all pubescent outside. Petals faleately rhomboid, 
sub-acuminate. Jip with a short sub-globose saccate base, a long toothed claw, and 
a much twisted apical lobe deeply divided into two sub-quadrate slightly divergent 
irregularly crenate lobules the upper margins of which are connivent; the sac containing 
two approximate stout up-turned teeth; the claw with nine unequal teeth on each 
margin. Column with two small өсекке up-turned teeth below the entire anticous 
stigma; arms of the rostellum large, winged, bidentate. Pollinia in sub-equal pais, 
united midway into a pseudo-caudicle; the gland small, ovate, lateral ^ Odontochilus 
tortus, King and Pantling in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXV, Pt. 2, 195. 
Bhotan, at Kumai near the Jaldacca river, elevation about 4,000 feet; flowering 
in December; Pantling No. 354. 
The iod ally of this species is undoubtedly О. Elwesii, Clarke; but that 
species has very dark purple leaves, smaller than those of this. and thicker in texture. 
0. Elwesii besides has a longer more pubescent peduncle than this which mever bears 
more than three flowers. Moreover the lip of О. Elwesit is not twisted, and its claw 
has only seven pairs of teeth, while the sac of the lip is bilobed and the column 
has large processes. 'The colour of the sepals and petals of this i is green, the lip being 
white and the anther pale brown. 
PraTE 396.—Ane-tochilus tortus.~King and Paníling. A plant, of natural size. Fig. 1 а flower, 
2 profile view of apex of ovary, column with anther іл situ, and the saccate base of the lip, showing 
the polliniar gland (0) and one of the stigmas s), 3 front view of the column, showing the polliniar 
gland (0) and the stigma (s), 4 vertical section of the preceding, showing the callus on one side of the 
interior of the sae of the lip, 5 petals, 6 pollinia; all enlarged. 
84. Cheirostylis, Blume. 
. Terrestrial herbs with stems decumbent and succulent at the base. Leaves mem- 
branous. Flowers few, racemose. Sepals united in their lower half into a ventricose 
tube. Petals shorter than the sepals. Lip saccate or cymbiform at the base, the sac 
with enclosed calli or sete; et bilobulate or fimbriate. Column 
