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Lateral sepals very broad; petals and lip concealed within the sepals; lip hardly 
longer than the column. 
Described from the drawing, which probably exaggerates the dimensions of the specimen it 
portrays. The species was first described by Lindley in 1838 from living plants which were procured 
from Kew and said to have been received from Nepal (no doubt from Dr. Wallieh). Lindley’s des- 
cription accords very well with the figure here reproduced, which is that of a Sikkim plant, which 
was collected at Pacheem, on the southward flanks of the outer Himalaya, at an elevation of about 
5,000 feet. 
The Indisn species of Acanthephippium all want careful analyses and figures taken from living 
specimens; the texture of their flowers is such that in a dried state they cannot be satisfactorily 
studied. 
Fig. 1, flower of the natural size; 2, ovary lip and column; 3, anther; 4 and 6 pollinia:—all enlarged. 
PLATE 34. 
NEPHELAPHYLLUM GRANDIFLORUM, Hook f. 
N. grandiflorum; folis longe petiolatis ovato-cordatis acuminatis, scapo foliis longiore 
pubescente vaginis pallidis cylindraceis elongatis, bracteis setaceis pedicello brevioribus, 
racemo laxifloro erecto, floribus 1 poll. diam. virescentibus roseo ornatis, sepalis lateralibus 
lanceolatis acutis, petalis latioribus ellipticis acutis, mento late conico apice rotundato, 
labello parvo oblongo decurvo, disco 3-carinato, lobis lateralibus brevibus obtusis, terminali 
ovato obtuso. Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 199. 
Has.—Perak (Ге. Scortechini), Kunstler. 
Stem short, terete, green, rooting. Leaves about 2, 4 by 24 in., cordate, with a 
narrow deep sinus at the base, 7—9-nerved, bright green; petiole 3—4 in., terete, 
green, without a sheathing base, but sheathed with a long membranous deciduous vagina. 
Scape with raceme 10 in., green, finely pubescent, with two long membranous pale 
sheaths below the middle 1—1} in. long; raceme 2—7-fld.; bracts 4 in., slender; pedicel 
with ovary 3—3 in.; flowers nodding, 1 in. diam, dull green, flushed with red, or the 
sepals with red margins. Lateral sepals ascending, subfalcate; mentum broad; petals as 
long, but rather broader. Lip with 3 keels on the disk from base to apex, white or 
pink with a dark red midlobe. | 
Much the largest species hitherto discovered. The drawing is inscribed “Malaya Fl. 28-4-82, 
H. B. C., Cult, reod. from Kunstler, Perak.” A drawing by Scortechini represents the scape as 
2-fid. ; | 
| 5 Fig. 1, flower with the lip removed; 2, do. with a lateral sepal removed, both of the nitural size; 3, front 
and 4, side view of lip; б, column; 6, anther; 7 pollinia:—a// enlarged. 
PLATE 35. 
TAINIA LATIFOLIA, Benth. 
T. latifolia; caule procumbente radicante, foliis elliptico-lanceolatis acuminatis lamina. 
petiolo longiore, scapo cum racemo laxifloro 2—3 pedale, bracteis lineari-lanceolatis 
ovario brevioribus, sepalis 3-пегуйв petalisque 5-nerviis lineari-oblongis obtusis flavidi 
