58 ANNALS OF ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
green, striate ; bracts minute, ovate, brown ; ovaries about % in. ; flowers 2—1 in. diam: 
Sepais flushed with purplish red. Lip about as long as the DUE allay except the 
midlobe. Column very short and stout... Anther broad, .obtuse ; strap rather long, slender, 
dilated upwards, gland small. 
I have seen no specimens of the plant here figured, or of alien beds C. Mannii, and cannot 
hence speak confidently of their identity. As a species it approaches C. Wendlandorum most closely, 
but is very much smaller, with shorter strict stiff apparently very coriacious leaves, narrowed towards 
the one-sided obtuse tip. The lip is identical with that of the above-mentioned species, except 
that the scale or callus below the column is bifid or acutely 2-toothed. It is also closely ‘allied to 
C. undulatum, which has a bifid. scale, but the leaves are very much shorter, not undulated, the 
spur is not globose, and the midlobe of the lip apparently not caruncled. 
The drawing here reproduced is inscribed * ۶ Sikkim fld. Bot. Garden, Calc, March 1875.” 
Fig. 1, flower ; 2, column and lip; 3, lip seen. from. above ; 4, anther; 5, pollinia :—all enlarged. 
PLATE 87. 
CLEISOSTOMA BICUSPIDATUM, Hook. f 
C. bicuspidatum ; caule brevi, foliis ascendentibus late loriformibus profunde acute 
bifidis lobis sapius intus unidentatis, pedunculo gracile e basi caulis ascendente foliis 
longiore v. breviore simplici v. parce racemifero, racemis apice decurvis laxe pauci-v. 
multi-floris, floribus majusculis, sepalis petalisque oblongis subacutis flavo-virescentibus 
nervo medio roseo, labelli albi roseo рісі lobis lateralibus majusculis rotundatis v. 
retusis terminali brevi erasso ovato incurvo, calcare sepalis longiore conico-cylindraceo 
obtuso, callis ad basin lobi terminalis et infra columnam 2-fidis pubescentibus. .Hook. f. 
Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 15. | 
Нав.--біккім Hımaraya, near Darjeeling, Anderson (in Herb. Calcutta). Кнавта a xo 
alt, 2,000 ft., Mann. Техаввевім, Parish. 
Stem stout, 2—3 in., rooting at the base, clothed with the green gaping sheaths of 
the leaves. Leaves rather numerous, distichous, 8—6 by 3—1 in., flat, striate, midrib 
slender, bright green, not keeled. Peduncle sometimes 8 in. TM and exceeding the 
leaves, green, s speckled with red; sheaths short, amplesicanl, brown; bracts minute; 
racemes sometimes 6 in. long; pedicel with ovary 1 in. ; flowers 4—3 in. broad. ` Sepals 
and petals spreading or reflexed, 1-петуей, rather bE Column short, stout, 
rostellum long beaked. Anther flat, lanceolate, beak long or short; pollinia globose, | 
cleft, seated below the rounded Rn of the ee which is rather ox and dilated 
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I have vainly ed b» identity this apparently rather widely distributed وت‎ very distinct 
species with any described by Reichenbach. "There аге. several drawings of it in Herbs. Kew and 
n Caleutta, presenting a good deal of variety in the flowers, but very uniform in habit and in the 
— remarkable 4. эму bija fat her Of those in the Calcutta Herb., that here reproduced is 
po = ting a 
om bibe: ; marked ^ Aerides of Moulmein.” . It has a very. long йінде: A third dosi 
шев with narrower leaves and smaller flowers, has a shorter.stem with broader sepals 
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