94 MALAKXIDE A. 
ebracteate. Raceme. rather laxly flowered; floral bract linear-lanceolate, equal to or 
exceeding the stalked ovary. lowers minute, pale green. Sepals elliptic-oblong, blunt, 
reflexed. Petals linear, recurved, longer than the sepals, Zip quadrate, slightly 
narrowed to the base, decurved about the middle, the edges near the base with two 
thickened processes; true calli none, the sides of the lip entire, apex broad, subtruncate, 
slightly emarginate, minutely erose. Column slightly curved, rather long, obscurely 
winged, not thickened at the base. Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. v, 701; King & Pantl. 
in Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard, Cale., viii, 32, plate 42. 
Gori Valley in Eastern Kumaon, 2-3,000 feet, Duthie Nos. 5991, 24111; flowering 
in August. It was subsequentiy found by Mr. Pantling in the Teesta Valley, Sikkim 
Himalaya, at an elevation of 1,000 feet. 
4, Dendrobium Swartz. 
` Epiphytal. Psewdo-bulbs short and fleshy or elongate and stem-like, usually tufted. 
Leaves never plicate, usually sessile and with sheathing bases. Flowers solitary, or in 
fascicles or racemes, often large. Sepals subequal, the lateral pair obliquely adnate to the 
foot of the column and forming with it a sac or mentum, Lip sessile or clawed at the 
base, adnate to and incumbent on the foot of the column; side lobes embracing the 
column, or spreading, or absent; the terminal lobe broad or narrow, flat, convex, 
concave or saccate; disk sometimes lamellate. Column short, with a long or short foot 
which usually has а nectar-secreting cavity at its extremity, the apex angled or 
2-toothed ; anther 2-celled. Pollina 4, equal in length, sometimes in free pairs but 
usually all slightly coherent, ovoid or oblong, slightly compressed.—Species about 300, 
in Tropical Asia, Australasia and Polynesia. 
$ 1. Breviflores.— Stems tufted, long, terete or clavate. Leaves membranous | 
persistent. Flowers small, in short racemes or heads, yellow, often dingy; mentum large, 
saccate; dip very short, deeply concave or urceolate, truncate or with short lobes. 
1. JD. bicameratum. 
$ 2. Stachyobium.—Pseudo-bulbs short, tufted, with 2 or 3 leaves, or stems 
elongate and leafy. Leaves narrow, membranous, deciduous or persistent. Flowers in 
slender terminal or lateral racemes, small or medium-sized, pale green or yellowish, or 
white with red veins; mentum rather long, conical, incurved, or short and obtuse; lip 
often with a flat keel on the disk terminating in a truncate crenate callus оп the 
mid-lobe. 
Raoemes many-flowered, drooping : . . . OE. у, .... X 
Scape short, erect, 3—5-flowered . 2 
5 5. Eudendrobium,—Séems elongated, stout or slender, cylindric, clavate or 
nodose. Leaves membranous or coriaceous, persistent or deciduous. Flowers usually large, 
in lateral pairs, fascicles or racemes, rarely solitary, variously coloured, white, yellow 
or purple. 
