a with the raceme 2—3 in., green speckled with red; bracts 
40 ANNALS OF ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
PLATE 60, 
Doritis Braceana, Hook, J. 
D. Braceana; subacaulis, foliis lineari-oblongis obtusis v. subacutis coriaceis, scapis 
erectis crassis viridibus rubro-punctatis 8—10 floris, bracteis minutis, floribus nutantibus 
pedicellis crassiusculis decurvis, sepalis petalisque obovato-oblongis obtusis flavis costa 
rufescente, labelli violacei lobis lateralibus ovato-lanceolatis subacutis appendicula parva 
furcata interposita, terminali spathulato-obovato apice rotundato, mento - elongato 
caleariforme, Hook, f. Fl. Brit. Ind, vi. 196, 
Нав. --Бикктм og BHOTAN-HIMALAYA, Gamble, 
Roots very numerous, long, flat, apparently pubescent. Stem about 2 in, long, 
clothed with the brown short sheaths of old leaves, Zeaves in the drawing, two, one 
23 by nearly 1 in., straight, rounded at both ends, very dark green and grooved down 
the middle, apparently thickly coriaceous; the other about 2 by # in., acute. Scapes 2, 
nearly as thick as a crow-quill from the base to the top of tie raceme, with one or 
two flowerless bracts, dark green, speckled with red-brown; bracts ovate, green, about 
то in. long; pedicels with ovary 3 in. long; flowers nearly 1 in. diam. Lip 
membranous, midlobe narrowed to the base; mentum as long as the erect sidelobes, 
Column large, stout, fleshy ; pollinia 4 (2 bipartite ?) subglobose. 
A very singular species from its very stout habit, lurid green foliago, and in these respects and 
its many-fld. erect raceme very unlike its congeners known to me, but with the flower quite that 
of D. taenialis in general character and inthe colour of the lp. I have seen no specimens, and 
. have deseribed it from the drawing in Herb. Caleutta, and from notes made by Mr. Brace from the 
living plants which flowered in the Calcutta Botanic Garden, and which were brought to 
Mr. Gamble at Darjeeling by a Bhotea collector in 1882. I dedicated it to Mr. Brace, sometime 
employed in the Herbarium of the Royal Garden, Calcutta. | 
Fig. 1, flower; 2, the same with the lip removed; 3 lip :—all enlarged. 
PLATE 61. 
Вавсоснилов (Pteroceras) MURICULATUS, Hook. f. 
S. muriculatus ; acaulis: у. caule brevi, foliis late oblongis v. loriformibus 2-fidis 
flaccidis medio canaliculatis, scapo foliis breviore rachique viscidis, sepalis petalisque 
.. late ovatis subacutis primulinis v. albis vittis 2 transveris purpureis v. roseis notatis, 
_ sepalis lateralibus basi labelli v. pedi column adnatis, labello saccato, sacco conico, lobis 
quadratis apicibus sinuato-lobulatis intermedio minuto 
lateralibus erectis late ovatis v, 
truncato v, bifido pubescente, columna longiuscula, rostello brevi acuto. Reichb, f. dn 
Gard. Chron, 1881, ti, 198; Hook. f. Fl. Brit, Ind. vi. 84, 
0۸+۹۹ 01007 Kurz, Berkeley, 
کے‎ Stem sometimes 6-8 in. long, rooting below. Leaves 6—9 by 1—11 in. pale green, 
| unequally bifid, the lobes and sinus acute or rounded, Scape rather slender, 
broad, minute; pedicels with 
8 long as the sepals, yariable 
P od. m. lowers $ in. diam., sweet-scented. Lip about a 
