598 Gr. King & R. Pantling. — New Iudo-Malayan Orchids. [No. 3, 



Jaintia Hills, near Jharain, south of Jawai, at an elevation of 3,000 

 feet; Pantling, No. 626, flowering in June. 



A species near P. macroglossa, Hook, fil., but with smaller flowers 

 and a lip with much larger side-lobes and a much broader apical lobe. 

 The sepals and petals are of a pale olivaceous colour with brown stripes : 

 the lip is greenish at the base, the side-lobes are white tinged with pink, 

 and the apical lobe is white with bold rose-coloured spots. 



Pogonia poliosa, n. spec. Whole plant a span in height. Leaves 

 2 to 4, appearing with the flowers, elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, many- 

 nerved, unequal, clustered at the base of the short stem, their bases 

 sheathed by a wide loose tubular acute sheath. Scape 6 or 7 in. long, 

 rising from among the leaves, erect, smooth, slender, with a closely 

 fitting bract 1 in. long at the base and another half as long about the 

 middle. Raceme 3- or 4-flowered. Flowers '65 in. long ; floral bracfa 

 lanceolate, acute, shorter than the slenderly-stalked ovary. Sepals mem- 

 branous, subequal, free, linear-lanceolate, acute. Petals slightly shorter, 

 ob-lanceolate, acute. Lip about equal to the sepals in length, obovate 

 in general outline, convolute round the column, 3-lobed at the apex ; 

 the side-lobes triangular, entire, their apices acute, directed forwards 

 and equalling the apical lobe in length ; apical lobe much broader, 

 rounded, its edges undulate-erose ; the disc with three glabrous lamellae 

 running from the base to near the apex, smooth in their lower two- 

 thirds but pectinate in the upper third. Column slender, slightly 

 dilated at the apex. Anther terminal, 2-celled, its lip 2-lobed j pollinia, 

 2, coarsely granular. 



Upper Burma ; at Fort Stedman ; Abdul Khalil, Native Collector 

 of Bot. Garden, Calcutta. 



A very distinct species of Pogonia belonging to the section of the 

 genus which has the leaves contemporaneous with the flowers. 



The few specimens known have leaves as described. But, with age, 

 it is probable that the leaves become petiolate. The leaves and habit 

 are those of a Cephalanthera, but the column is that of the genus to which 

 we have referred it. 



Cephalanthera chartacea, n. spec. Height of the entire plant J 2 

 to 15 in. Stem short, stout, '3 in. thick at the base and enveloped 

 by 2 unequal wide blunt foliaceous sheaths. Leaves 3 to 5, the 

 sheath of the lowest leaf the largest and embracing those of the higher 

 leaves. Leaves crowded, sessile, shortly sheathed, narrowly elliptic- 

 oblong, acuminate, many-nerved, 4 to 9 in. long, and *35 to 1J5 in. 

 broad. Inflorescence terminal ; the peduncle longer than the leaves, 

 naked, or with a single sheathing lanceolate bract 1 in. long close to 

 the raceme, angled. Raceme short, few-flowered ; floral bract ovate- 



