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Much the largest species of the genus, but of which I have seen no specimen, and have there» 
fore to trust to the drawings for the entire description. Of these, that of Simons is a very rude 
outline in pen and ink, and without analyses; that here reproduced is inscribed . “Introd. from 
Sikkim, Feb. 1867, fld. Feb. 1867, T. Anderson; fid. again March 1875, G. King.” 
Fig. 1, flower; 2 front view of do; 3 lip foreshortened ; 4, anther; 5 pollinia :—all enlarged. 
PLATE 37. 
PHAJUS MISHMENSIS, Reichb. f. 
P. mishmensis; caule robusto elato folioso basi vix pseudobulboso, foliis alternis 
elliptico-lanceolatis acutis, scapo axillari elongato pluritloro, braeteis lanceolatis caducis 
ovario brevioribus, floribus suberectis roseis, sepalis petalisque lineari-oblongis subacutis 
concavis, labello sepalis aequilongo, lobis lateralibus brevibus rotundatis recurvis, 
terminali parvo orbiculari 2-lobulato integerrimo, disco cristato, calcare angusto sepalis 
dimidio breviore. eichb. f. in Bonplandia у. 43 et in Walp. Ann, vi. 922, 928. Hook, 
Л. Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 817, Limatodes mishmensis, Lindl, and Part. Fl, Gard, iii. 36. 
Нав.--Бикктм Hımaraya, in hot valleys, Clarke. Мівнмі Hiris, Grifith. 
Stem 3—4 ft., as thick as the middle finger, somewhat tuberous at the very base; 
naked below, with the fibrous remains of old leaf-sheaths on the nodes, leafy above. 
Leaves 6—12 by 4—5 inches, 5-nerved. Scapes 1—9, rather slender, much exceeding the 
leaves, green; sheaths few, narrowly-lanceolate; racemes few and lax-fld.; bracts 
narrowly-lanceolate, much shorter than the ovary; pedicel with ovary slender, 1—11 
in., suberect. Lateral sepals lj inches long, bright rose-coloured ; petals narrower, paler ; 
lip narrow with short everted lobes; spur green. 
The drawing here reproduced is from the collection formed by the late J. F. Cathcart, Esq., B. C. S., 
when residing in Darjeeling in 1849, and now at Kew. 
Fig. 1, side view of flower; 2, front view of same with sepals and petals removed and the lip spread out ; 3, lip and 
column :—all of the natural size; 4, anther; 6 ? ; 6, pollinia :—all enlarged; 7, young fruit of the natural size; 8, transversé 
section of the same, enlarged, 
PLATE 38, 
Catocyne Кіхоп, Hook, f. 
C. Кий; rhizomate robusto ascendente crebre articulato fibroso, pseudobulbis 
diphyllis magnis anguste ovoideis sulcatis diphyllis, foliis magnis lanceolatis acuminatis, 
scapo aphyllo rhizomate inserto stricto elongato toto vaginato, vaginis inferioribus brevibus 
arcte imbricatis superioribus elongatis laxioribus, racemo ascendente laxifloro, bracteis 
pollicaribus ovario excedentibus lineari-cymbiformibus, floribus albis 13 —2 poll. latis, sepalis 
lateralibus lanceolatis acuminatis dorsali elliptico-lanceolato, petalis oblanceolatis acutis, 
labelli lobis lateralibus. brevibus rotundatis, terminali orbiculari, disco cristis 5 medio 
lobi terminalis evanidis percurso, | Lm | ' 
үз Нав.--Ревак, Kunstier. | | | | 
` Rhizome as thick as a swan’s quill, with many internodes 1 in, long, fringed with 
_ fibres at the nodes, and emitting short rootlets, probably erect and inclined against 
Ахл. Roy. Bor. Garp. Catc., Vor. V. 
