A CENTURY OF INDIAN ORCHIDS; (J. D. HOOKER). 59 
and noms and a hemispheric midlobe of the lip: it is inscribed “near Darjeeling, July 1862, 
T. Anders." The anther of this is intermediate in length between those of the two former. 
The figs. Bl and B2 are from Mann’s Khasian specimens. 
Fig. 1, flower; 2, the same with the sepals and petals displaced and lip (fig. 3) removed; 4, anther; 5, pollinia 
from the specimen figured :—all enlarged. Al, lip; A2, anther; AS, pollinia, all from the Moulmein drawing. and 
all enlarged. Bl, column and B2, lip laid open; both enlarged from a Khasian specimen, 
PLATE 88. 
HERPYSMA LONGICAULIS, Lindl, 
Н. longicaulis, Lindl, Stem 6—12 in., robust, elongate and creeping and rooting 
below, then ascending, as thick as a swan’s quill or less, clothed below with white 
membranous truncate pubescent sheaths, leafy above. Leaves 2—3 in., ovate-lanceolate 
or elliptic, acuminate, narrowed into a short petiole, membranous, bright green, paler 
beneath; sheaths appressed to the stem, lower 1, upper 1} in., striate, pale green. 
Raceme or spike terminal, sessile  many-fld.; bracts longer than the ovary, very large, 
broadly ovate, obtuse, membranous, pale brown, striate; pedicels short, with the 
pubescent ovary 2—3 in. long, suberect ; flowers 3—3 in. long, white or pale pink, or 
white tipped with red. Sepals puberulous, subequal, ovate-oblong, acute, free, dorsal 
forming a hood with the shorter, broader, obtuse petals, Zip shorter than the petals, 
adnate to the sides of the column, subpanduriform, reflexed from the middle, strongly 
5-nerved, disk with two flattish calli about the middle and a thick lamella extending 
to the rounded tip; spur longer than the blade, straight, inflated above, slender 
below, striate, longitudinally grooved and infolded at the back, tip rounded and notehed. 
Column short, white, contracted below the broad pulvinate cenfral stigma, without 
appendages in front; rostellum short, erect at length bifid. Anther sessile, erect, 
linear-oblong, 2-celled ; pollinia narrow, tipped with hard lanceolate appendages, pollen- 
grains flattened. In Wall. Cat. n. 7389; et im Bot. Reg. sub. t. 1618 ; Gen, and Sp. 
Orchid. 506 et in Journ. Linn, Soc. L, 178, 190; Hook. f. Рі. Brit. Ind. vi. 98. 
Hap.—EasrERN SUBTROPICAL Hosaraya ; Nepal, Wallich; Sikkim, alt. 3—4,000 ft., 
J.D.H., «с. Kasia His, alt. 4,500 ft., Clarke. Br a | 
‘There is no inscription on the drawing, which is no doubt from a plant that flowered in the Royal 
Garden, Caleutta. | ; : 
Fig. 1, side, and 2, front view of flower; 3, flower with one lateral sepal and petal removed :—all enlarged. 
PLATE 89. 
 ODOoNTOCHILUS LANCEOLATUS, Benth. 
. caule pedali flexuoso, foliis 2—3-pollicaribus ovato-lanceolatis acutis 
у bee رہ‎ pedunculata multiflora pubescente, bracteis lanceolatis ovarium 
حسم‎ aequantibus v. excedentibus, floribus glabris, labelli aurei ungue lata utrinque 
ectinata dentibus 3—6, lobis terminalibus oblongo-quadratis, sacco سن‎ didymo, 
ышы دو دم‎ а Benth, бе ما‎ Hook, л. PL Вей. Ind. ш. 101. 
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Axx. Roy. Вот. Garp. Care, Vor. V. 
