A CENTURY OF INDIAN ORCHIDS; (J. D. HOOKER). 13 
short; bracts $ in.; pedicels with ovary $ in.; flower 1—1} in. across the spreading 
subfalcate lateral sepals, very fragrant, pure white. Lip yellowish towards the base. 
A beautiful species and very fragrant. I have seen no Khasian specimens; but the drawing 
here reproduced is inscribed “D. candidum, Wall, Mr. Gibson’s collections; grows erect like D. 
nobile.” Mr. Gibson was a collector in the Khasia, sent out by the Duke of Devonshire about the 
year 1834, and who, according to Lindley (Bot. Reg.), discovered D. candidum at Nungklow in the 
Khasia hills. ` | | 
Fig. 1, flower with the perianth segments detached; 2, lip; 3, anther; 4, pollinia:—all enlarged. 
PLATE 20, 
Пехрвовігм (Eudendrobium) второвом, Lindl. 
D. stuposum; caulibus elongatis sulcatis, foliis lineari-oblongis lanceolatisve acutis, 
foribus paucis in caulibus aphyllis racemosis albis, pedunculo gracili vaginato, sepalis 
oblongis acutis lateralibus carinatis, petalis late oblongis acutis erosis, mento brevi rotun- 
dato, labello obovato-oblongo v. sub-cuneato villoso et glanduloso-ciliato lobis laterali- 
bus brevibus terminali rotundato. Lindl, Bot. Reg. 1838, Misc. 52 et 1844, Misc, 52, 
Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 186. D. sphegidoglossum, Reichb. f. in Bonplandia іі. 58; 
Hook. f. K с., ۰ 
| Has.—Knasra Hirs, alt. 3— 5,000 ft. (Te. in Hort, Calcutta.). Tenasserim, Parish. 
Stems tufted, 6—12 in., internodes 1—1} in. Leaves 3—4 by 2 inch, rather thin, 
Racemes at the nodes, Peduncle slender, 12 in., with short scattered green sheaths; bracts 
linear-oblong, obtuse, green; pedicel with ovary 4—{ in.; flowers 1 in. long. Lip 
nearly as long as the.sepals, concave, not recurved, white with red veins and a yellow 
transverse band. 
The specimen figured, which is inscribed “introduced from the Khasia Hills in 1867, fld. on 
186 June 1868,” differs from the description in the Flora of British India in the smallness of the 
lateral lobes of the lip, or rather in the greater breadth of the terminal lobe, and in wanting the red 
veins and yellow band which are represented in a drawing of the Tenasserim plant by Mr. Parish. 
That the drawing cannot be altogether relied upon is evinced by the sepals and petals being 
represented as acuminate in the flowers of the natural size, and with rounded tips in the enlarged 
figures 1 and 2; the latter being the more correct. By inadvertence I have in the Flora of British 
India (И. 737) adopted Reichenbach’s later name of sphegidoglossum, which is corrected at p. 186 
of Vol. VI. қ : 
Fig. 1, flower; 2, the same with one sepal and petal removed; 3, lateral вера]; 4, lip:—a/Z more or less enlarged, 
PLATE 21. 
Dexprosium (Eudendrobium) AURANTIACUM, Век д” 
. D. aurantiacum; caulibus cœspitosis elongatis sulcatis, internodiis elongatis, foliis 
paucis lineari-oblongis apice emarginatis, floribus in caulibus aphyllis amplis aurantiacis 
y. aureis solitariis v. binis apicem versus pedunculi validi curvi vaginis coriaceis 
imbricatis tecti, bracteis elongatis spathaceis, sepalis lateralibus oblongis v. oblongo- 
lanceolatis acuminatis, petalis latioribus ovato-oblongis obtusis, mento brevi late conico apice —— 
rotundato, labello late unguiculato orbieulari marginibus eversis disco pubescente marginibus = 
