PHAJUS. 109 
vill, 101, t. 140, P. Smithianum, P. montanum and Р. Lindleyanum Reichb. f. 1.е.; 
апа in Walp. Ann. vi, 462, 463. Р. .Edgeworihii Reichb. f. in Walp. Ann. vi, 463. 
Apaturia senilis, A. Smithiana and A. montana Lindl, in Wall. Cat. 3739, 3737, 3738; 
Gen. and Sp. Orch. 130, 131. А. Lindleyana Wight Ic. 1662. 
Dehra Dun, 7. Thomson, Mackinnon; Garhwál, Falconer ; flowering in April. It is 
found also in many places within the northern border of the Gangetic Plain from the 
Jumna to Moradabad and М. Oudh, and extends southwards to ‘the hilly parts of the 
Peninsula and Ceylon. Eastwards it extends to Sikkim, the Khasia Hills, Manipur, 
the Nicobar Islands, the Malay Archipelago and S. China. 
8. Phajus Lour. 
Terrestrial or epiphytal, with or without pseudo-bulbs, usually of large size. Leaves 
membranous, usually plicate. Flowers large, racemose on a scape rising from the base 
of the stem or pseudo-bulb, or from the axil of a leaf or at the apex of the stem. 
Sepals and petals subequal, suberect, rarely spreading. Lip adnate to the base of the 
long footless column, gibbous or spurred. Anthers incompletely 4-celled, Pollinia 8, 
attached by fours to a granular membrane,—Species about 30, in the tropics of Asia 
and of the Pacific. 
Рнау0в ALBUS Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 3749. 
Pseudo-bulb none. Stems stout, erect, tufted, 8 to 9 dm. long, bearing many 
tubular sheaths at the base and numerous leaves. Leaves distichous, sessile, 1-5 to 
3 dm. long, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, membranous, 
glaucous beneath. Raceme terminal, drooping, 4-6-flowered, 10 to 15 cm. long, on a 
short peduncle with a single elongate sheath. Flowers 5 to 6'5 сш. long, the bract 
equalling or exceeding the long-stalked ovary, oblong, cymbiform, acute, nearly white. 
Sepals free, subequal, narrowly oblong, acute. Lip broadly oblong-panduriform when 
spread out; lower half convolute into a tube; the anterior cucullate, forming a rounded 
shell-like mouth slightly acuminate, the edges undulate and unequally dentate, the 
upper surface with seven to nine dentate crested ridges; spur short, horizontal, slightly 
bifid. Column somewhat winged near the apex, with a very short foot. Pollinia 8, 
unequal, elongate. Capsule 8 cm. long, narrowly elliptic, Wall. Pl. As. Rar. n, t. 198; 
Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 128; Bot. Reg. 1838, t. 33; Paxt. Mag. v, t. 125; Bot. 
Mag. t. 3991; Стар. Cat. Bomb, Pl. 205; Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd, Bat. ii, 181; 
Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. v, 818; King & Pantl in Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Cale. viii, 
110, t. 153, P. Marshalliana Reichb. f. in Linnea xli, 65; Regel Gartenfl. t. 1098. 
Thunia alba Reichb. f. in Bot. Zeit. 1852, 764. Т. pulchra Reichb, f. in Gard, Chron. 
1881, ii, 166. Limodorum bracteatum Roxb. Fl. Ind. іп, 466. 
Dehra Dun, often epiphytal on sál trees, Gamble, Mackinnon; Garhwál, Falconer, 
T. Thomson ; Mussoorie range up to 4,600 feet, Vicary, Edgeworth; Kumaon at 
3,200 feet, Strachey & Winterbottom No. 18. Flowers in June. It extends eastwards 
to Sikkim, the Khasia Hills and Burma, and is found also on the Western Ghats. 
A very handsome species, with pure white sepals and petals, and usually a yellow or 
orange-coloured lip. | 
