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A CENTURY OF INDIAN ORCHIDS; (J. D. HOOKER). 7 
Of this fine species I have seen no native specimens. It was first described in 1869 from a 
plant supposed to have been imported from Assam, which locality was at that period the putative 
birthplace of every orchid from N. E. India, the preciser habitats of which were not indicated. 
Nothing further was known of it until the publication of the Flora of British India, wherein 
the drawing here reproduced is mentioned, and on which is written “sent from the Khasia hills by 
Mr. Gallatly; fld. in Bot. Gardens, 30th January 1879. @. King.” 
Fig. 1, flower; 2, the same with the perianth segments detached; 3, lip spread open; 4 and б, anther; 
6, pollinia :—all but fig. 1, enlarged. 
PLATE 10. 
Denprosium (Aporum) Leoxis, Reichb., f. 
D. Leonis; robustum, foliis crasse coriaceis late ovatis у. breviter cultriformibus 
obtusis, floribus terminalibus solitariis, bracteis numerosissimis fibrosis, sepalis laterali- 
bus rotundatis, petalis oblanceolatis, mento rotundato, labello lineari-oblongo margin- 
ibus involutis apice rotundato v. retuso disco infra apicem carunculato. Reichb. f. in 
Walp. Ann. vi. 280; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind, v. 723; vi. 184. Aporum indivisum, 
Lindl. in Wall, Cat. No. 2018 et Gen. and Sp. Orchid TO (non Blume) А. Leonis, Lindl. 
in Bot. Reg. 1840 Mise, 59; Grif. in Calc. Journ. Nat, Hist, v. 968. 
Has.—SiNcAPOnE, Prince. Maracca, Grifith, PERAK, Scortechini. Wray.—Java. 
Stem branching from the base; branches prostrate, 6—10 in. by 1—1} in. broad 
across the leaves, quite flat. eaves 2 іп. long and broad, not striated, margins 
thickened when dried, dark lurid green. Flowers shortly and stoutly pedicelled, 
the pedicel about $ in. long and broad, sunk in the brush-like tuft of filiform bracts, 
dirty purplish and yellow green (pale citron tinged with claret, Wray); mentum 
forming a rounded base to the flower; lip recurved, rather longer than the lateral 
sepals. Anther 2-lobed on the crown. 
Mr. Ridley, writing from Singapore, informs me that the flowers are exquisitely scented of 
vanilla. The specimen figured is inscribed “D. indivisum, Blume. Singapore 10 (1861). T. Anderson, 
Fld. 20-3-62.” I have pointed out in the Flora of British India that Blume’s D. indivisum, of which 
there is an authentically named specimen in Herb. Lindl. (now at Kew), has much — not 
thickened leaves, and a transverse lamina on the lip, as in دلا‎ | 
Fig. 1, flower; 2, column; 3 & 4, anther; 5, pollinia —a// enlarged. 
PLATE 11. 
Оехововгом (Strongyle) TERES, Lindl. 
D. teres; caule gracile elongato parce folioso, foliis remotis teretibus obtusis v. 
oblique truncatis, floribus in apicem caulis elongatum aphyllum longe vaginatum paucis 
brevissime pedicellatis albis, bracteis spathaceis, sepalis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis, | 
jetalis angustioribus lineari-lanceolatis, mento sepalis breviore conico recto, labello sepalis 
breviore cuneato oblique truncato acuminato у. cuspidato serrulato disco 8-cristato. 
Lindl. in Bot, Reg. 1840 Мис. 51; Hook. f. РІ. Brit. Ind. v. 126. 00 
Has.—Stncarore Hort. Lindley; (Ic. in Herb. Hori. Calcutta). 
