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A CENTURY OF INDIAN ORCHIDS; (J. D. HOOKER). 5 
Stems 6—10 in. long, leafy throughout, or (through the early fall of the lower 
leaves) naked below, except for their sheaths, Scapes axillary, very slender, with the 
raceme 4—6 in., rachis flexuous; pedicel with ovary 2—1 in, Flowers 2 in. long, white 
or greenish with red mentum and red veins on the lip, or yellowish with a greenish 
lip. Dorsal sepal 3-nerved, lateral 5-nerved; petals l-nerved, all drawn out into very 
slender points, Column very short. Anther with an erose margin. 
The drawing reproduced here represents a greatly more robust state of the species than I have seen, and the 
side lobes of the lip are toothed only, not deeply cut, as in the specimens I have examined; which invalidates tho 
subsectional character which I have given in the Flora of British India, where D. denudams, eriaflorum, Griff., 
alpestre, Royle, and strongylanthum, Reichb. f., are distinguished from D. microbulbon and others by the deeper cutting 
of the lip. 
The drawing here reproduced is inscribed “ near Darjeeling, 1862, Т. Anders.” Fig. 1, flower; 2, column ; 
3 44, anther; 6 & 6, pollinia:—all enlarged. 
PLATE 7. 
Пехововим (Stachyobium) ERLEFLORUM, Grif. 
JD. erieflorum; caulibus brevibus pseudobulbosis, foliis linearibus vel lineari-oblongis 
vel lanceolatis acutis vel emarginatis, scapis gracilibus foliis longioribus nutantibus multi- 
floris, bracteis parvis, sepalis lanceolatis acuminatis faleatis, mento breve incurvo obtuso 
vel rotundato, labello sepalis fere sequilongo, lobis lateralibus pectinatim v. subfimbriatim 
serratis, terminali. undulato, disco medio cristato, columna apice grosse dentata. D. 
erieflorum, Griff. Notul. للا‎ 316 её Ic. Pl. Asiat. t. 307; Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Кос. 
ii. 19; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 715. 
Нав.--біккім-НіматАҮА; alt. 6,000 ft, J. D. Hooker, &c. Kuasa Нил, alt. 
4— 5,000 ft., Griffith, «е. | 
Stem 6—8 in., basal or all the internodes thickened, the upper few leafing. Leaves 
2—3 in. distichous. Scape with raceme 3—4 in. ; pedicel with ovary 1 in.; flowers green, 
8 in. long. Sepals and petals simply acuminate, not drawn out into long points; petals 
oblanceolate, acute. Lip green, with red veins. Anther not erose on the margin (as it is 
in D. denudans). | 
In the Flora of British India I have described) the flowers from various sources as being as 
variable in colour as those of D. denudans, to which this species is closely allied. I had not, hew- 
ever, any knowledge of these being green as here represented, and I had not observed the toothing 
of the top of the column; or that the margin of the anther was erose in D. denudans and entire 
in D. епайогит. The stems also of this are longer and more slender in the specimens I have 
examined than in the figure here reproduced, which is inscribed “84, D. denudans, Don? Mr. J 
Gibson, 1836. G. Mann showed me a drawing of this plant collected halfway between Punkabari 
and Kurseong, 1807. T. Anders D. erisflorum, Grif.; see t. 307 Monocot. PL Notul. iii. 316, 
G. King." 
. Fig. 1, flower; 2,. the same with perianth segments detached; 3, column; 4, anther; 6, pollinia 7م‎ 
enlarged. : 
