A CENTURY OF INDIAN ORCHIDS; (J. D. HOOKER). 3 
obtusis 3-nerviis lateralibus labello suppositis, petalis linearibus 1-nerviis, labello deflexo 
elliptico acuto crenulato lateribus deflexis basi minute 2-calloso, columna tenui incurva. 
Hook, f. in Hook. Ic. Plant. 1, 1812 et Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 693. 
Has.—Sırkım-Hımaraya, at Rungbee, alt. about 5,000 feet, Clarke: on Sinchul, alt. 
6,500 feet, Gamble. 
Pseudobulbs clustered, the size of a small hazelnut, green, smooth. Stem 0. Leaf 
4-6 in., obtuse, acute or suddenly narrowed into an obtuse tip, with about 12 plaits, 
pale green, narrowed at the base; petiole 0—2 in. Scape enfolded by the base of the leaf, 
rather stout, shorter than the leaf, many- and lax-flowered ; rachis of raceme (in the drawing) 
rather thickened, reddish, ribbed ; bracts erect, spreading, green; pedicel with ovary  in., 
slender. Sepals 1—1 in., pale pink, margins recurved, Zip rather longer than the sepals, 
greenish-yellow, with three strong, red median nerves, margins, and branching lateral nerves. 
Column strongly incurved above the middle, terminal wings entire or more or less notched. 
In the specimens of this species described in the Flora of British India, the leaves 
were sessile, whereas in this they have rather long petioles, 
Fig. 1, bract; 2, flower; 3, lip; 4, anther; 5, pollinia—all enlarged from the specimen figured, collected in 
“Sikkim, alt. 6,000 ft, Aug. 1876, С. King.” Figs, Al, flower and А2, lip, are from Gamble’s specimen, also 
enlarged. 
PLATE 4. 
Lrraris (Corüfolie) PLANTAGINEA, Lindl, 
L. plantaginea; pseudobulbis magnis ovato-oblongis compressis, foliis 9 sessilibus 
suboppositis lineari-oblongis oblanceolatisve acutis, seapo valido teretiuseulo vel compresso, 
bracteis ovato-lanceolatis ovarium subzquantibus, sepalis obtusis 3-nerviis rectis lateribus 
revolutis, petalis linearibus l-nerviis, labello sepalis s:equelongo a basi deflexo orbiculare 
breviter unguiculato crenulato basi 2-tuberculato, columna incurva apice exalata. Lindl. Gen. 
$ Sp. Orchid. 29; Ridley in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxii. 286; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 
702. L. selligera, Reichb. f. in Linnea xli. 42. L. orbicularis, Zodd. ez Hemsl, in Gard. 
Chron, 1881, ii. 592. L. Griffithii, ez parte Ridley l.c. 285. 
HAp.—SIKKIN-HIMALAYA, alt, 12,000 feet, Clarke, Upper Assam, at the Brahma- 
 koond, Griffith. 
Pseudobulbs 2—3 in. long by 1—1} in. broad, smooth, green, much compressed ; sheaths 
membranous, acute. Flowering scape from the base of the old pseudobulb, 2—3 in. by 1—1 in. 
broad, flattened, clothed with compressed green imbricating acute sheaths. Leaves 6—10 
by 1—2 in., keeled, sessile or narrowed into a petiole, 5—7-nerved. Scape with the raceme 
about as long as the leaves, strict or flexuous; bracts 1—2 in., concave; flowers 1 in. broad, 
green. Zip with 3 median nerves and branching lateral ones. E 
_ Lindley gives Bhutan as the habitat for this species, and in all probability it is a 
native of that country; but the specimen he described, and which is preserved in his 
Herbarium now at Kew, is ticketed from the Brahmakoond. | 
The drawing here reproduced is inscribed “ Sikkim, 5-3-83, #4. іп H. В. C., 19.7.83, G. King.” The following 
figures are of the specimen drawn :—l, bract and bud; 2, side and 3, front view of flower; 5, lip,—all of the 
natural size; 4, flower with the laterai sepals and lip removed; 6, anther—Joth enlarged. The figures under A 
are from analyses of my own of a plant that flowered in the Royal Garden, Kew, in June 1866, and is the type of - 
Reichenbach’s L. selliyera; A, lip; Al, dorsal and А2, lateral sepals; АЗ, petal; A4, column—all enlarged, 
Ayn. Ruy. Bor. Gan». Catc, Vor. V. 
