138 VANDER. 
Garhwál at 4,000 feet, Mackinnon; Kumaon 4,000 feet, Strachey 6 Winterbottom 
No. 26, flowering from October to December. It extends eastwards to Nepal, Sikkim, 
Bhutan and the Khasia Hills. 
The flowers are of a dingy yellow colour with vertical lines of brown, and the lip has broad 
transverse dark brown blotches; the sepals are greenish externally. 
18. Doritis Lindl. 
Epiphytic, with short stems and no pseudo-bulbs. :×ط‎ flat, coriaceous. Infor- 
escence from the side of the stem or axillary, erect or pendulous. Flowers in loose 
racemes, Sepals and petals widely spreading, Lip clawed or sessile, adnate to the 
foot of the column, spurred, more or less lobed, side lobes erect, disk usually with 
a forked plate or callus. Column narrowly winged, its foot long and forming with 
the sides of the lip a conical sac bearing the lateral and apical lobes at its mouth.— 
Species 5, Indian, Chinese and Malayan, 
Doritis TÆNIALIS Benth. in Gen. Plant, iti, 574, 
Roots numerous, long and flat, forming large tufts, Leaves few, pendulous, often 
solitary, sometimes absent, 7:6 to 12:6 em. long, narrowly elliptic-oblong, acute, taper- 
ing to the sessile base, Racemes 6- to 8-flowered, longer than the leaves, pendulous. 
Flowers about 2 em. across, purple cr occasionally pure white; Jract minute, broadly 
triangular. Sepals unequal, blunt, the dorsal one oblong or slightly oblanceolate; lateral 
pair broader, elliptic, blunt. Petals shorter than the sepals, obovate, blunt. Zip 
adnate to the foot of the column, shorter than the petals; hypochile produced below 
into a stout subcylindrie spur, and sending upwards two long narrow falcate backward- 
pointing lobes; epichile spathulate-oblong, entire, attached to the hypochile near its 
base, parallel to it for part of its length and then curving forwards, its upper 
surface with a forked appendage. Column dilated towards the long foot; stigma large, 
rostellum long and narrow.  Pollinia subglobose, attached by a long curved tapering flat 
caudicle to a small triangular gland. Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. i نک و و‎ O 
Pantl. in Ann, Roy. Bot. Gard. Cale. viii, 199, t. 266. D. Braceana Hook. f. in 
Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Cale. v, 40, t. 60. rides teniale Lindl Gen. and Sp. Orch. 
239; in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii, 41, Ж, carnosum Griff. Notul iii, 265: Io. Pl. 
Аз. t. 338A. сы 
N.-W, Himalaya, Madden ; Dehra Dun, Gamble Np. 22780; Jaunsar, Gamble 
سے سو‎ ел Te, Sa 
; ia feet, Duthie No. 5997; near Almora 
at 3,500 feet, Strachey & Winterbottom No. 23. Flowers during April and 
dd It extends eastwards to Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, Khasia Hills, Manipur aud 
19. Ornithochilus Will. 
Epiphytie, without pseudo-bulbs, Stem very short, Leaves iew, crowded, broadly 
LI E 4 
oblong, flat, softly coriaceous. Inflorescence supra-axillary, racemose or panicled, Sepals 
