1904.] D. Prain — Four Orchids new to the Indian Flora, 191 



proximated thicker persistent. Flowers racemose or spicate. Sepals 

 subequal, free, suberect, their bases surrounded by a small urceolate 

 toothed epicalyx. Petals like sepals. Lip erect, shortly adnate to the 

 base of the column, or free but embraciug the column below, above 

 somewhat wider, concave with two subacute side lobes and a rounded 

 central lobe, pubescent within. Column rather long, straight, dilated 

 above ; stigma short rounded ; anther adnate to margin of clinan- 

 drium, cells distinct ; pollinia granular, ovate or oblong. Oapsule nar- 

 row-oblong, dehiscing from base to apex, tipped by the toothed or entire 

 cupular persistent epicalyx. — Species 3, in Malaya, Indo- China, E. Hima- 

 laya and Japan. 



1. Lecanorohis japonioa Bl. Mus. Bot, Lugd. Bat, ii., 188 ; flowers 

 racemose, sepals and petals narrowly obovate obtuse ; lip oblong, with 

 subacute wide triangular side lobes, softly hairy at the base and densely 

 pubescent with strong reflexed hairs towards the margin of the rounded 

 cucullate mid-lobe within. Bl. Orch. Arch. Ind, 176, t. 62. 



Eastern Himalaya : Sikkim; above Rungbee, 6,500 — 7,000 ft., Prain\ 

 Prain^s Collectors I Assam: Jaintia Hills; Darrung and Mongot, King's 

 Collectors \ Khasia ; Mamloo, Bantling \ 



Stems rather soft, 1*5-2 ft. high, dark-green, tinged with pnrple, with 6-8 par- 

 plish membranous sheaths rather close below, more distinct above, '5 in. long, 

 embracing the stem. Racemes 3-4 in. long, 6-9-flowered, lax; bracts '3 in. long, 

 triangular; pedicel with ovary 1 in. long; epicalyx 18-20-toothed, teeth acute; 

 sepals and petals '6 in. long, dull purple externally ; lip as long but much broader, 

 dull purple externally as are the side lobes within, interior of mid-lobe pale-yellow 

 within. 



Flowers self -fertile. A careful examination of the Sikkim plant in the living 

 state reveals nothing that can distinguish it from the Japs 



2. Lecanorchis MALACCENSis Eidl. Trans. Linn, 8oc, Ser. II., Bot. iii., 

 377, t. 65 ; flowers racemose or panicled, sepals and petals lanceolate 

 spathulate; lip oblong not lobed, wide-spathulate and densely hairy 

 within. Journ. Linn, Soc. xxxii., 409. 



Malay Peninsula : Singapore ; Penang, Malacca ; Kedah ; Pahang ; 

 Bidley. Perak; Wray 4i02l\ 



Stems slender, wiry, often branching, 1-1*5 ft. high, black, with 6-8 small 

 ovate-acute sheaths, '2 in. long. Racemes 1-2 in. long, 3-6-flowered, lax ; bracts 

 •!-• 15 in. long, ovate acute ; pedicel with ovary '5 in. long; epicalyx entire; sepals 

 and petals '6 in. long, pale flesh-coloured or yellowish-white; lip as long but much 

 broader, pale flesh-coloured externally, inside of lip anteriorly yellow. 



Flowers self-fertile. In general facies this species considerably resembles 

 L. javanica Bl., but differs from that plant in having an entire epicalyx and in having 

 the base of the lip adnate to the column below, in which respect the present plant 

 is, as Mr. Ridley has pointed out, allied rather to L. japonica than to L. javanica. 



