1897.] G. King & R. Pantling.— New Indo- Malayan Orchid*. 599 



lanceolate, chartaceous, '75 in. long. Sepals subequal, lanceolate, acute, 

 the petals rather narrower. Lip sessile on the base of the column, 

 3-lobed ; the lateral lobes small, bluntly triangular ; the apical lobe orate, 

 blunt ; the disc with 5 vertical smooth parallel raised lines running from 

 base to apex. Column short, stout, winged near the apex opposite the 

 large concave stigma. Anther terminal, erect, 2-celled ; pollinia 2, 

 narrowly elongate, deeply bipartite. 



Upper Burma, in the Southern Shan States, at Taungyi ; Native 

 Collector of Calcutta Botanic Garden. 



Only two specimens of this are known, and the flowers of both are 

 in bud. The description of the flower above given may therefore have 

 to be modified in some of its details when fully developed flowers are 

 collected. The clustered leaves form a pseudo-stem by their sheathing 

 bases, an arrangement which gives this plant a very different fades from 

 either of the two Indian species already described. The specific name 

 has been given on account of the chartaceous nature of the floral bracts. 



GOODYEREiE. 



Zeuxine andamanica, n. spec. Whole plant 12 to 18 inches high ; 

 stem stout in its lower half, rooting at the base. Leaves 4 to 10, 

 scattered over the lower half of the stem, lanceolate, acute ; the petiole 

 very short and expanding into a short wide scarious sheath ; length 

 1 25 to 2 in., breadth '6 to *8 in., petiole about *1 in. Peduncle of the 

 spike slender, elongate, with sparse thin hairs, and bearing .3 or 4 

 distant scarious narrowly tubular bracts about *5 in. in length. Spike 

 3 to 6 in. long, many - but rather laxly-flowered. Flowers '2 or 25 in. 

 long ; floral bract sparsely puberulous, about as long as the puberulous 

 ovary, broadly ovate, 1-nerved, its edges erose, with a long acuminate 

 apex. Dorsal sepal broadly ovate-elliptic, concave, subacute ; the 

 lateral pair narrower, acute, not spreading. Petals narrower than the 

 sepals, dimidiately elliptic, subacute, connivent with the dorsal sepal 

 to form a hood covering the column. Lip longer than the sepals ; the 

 hypochile globularly saccate and having a prominent incurved tooth 

 near the base within each margin ; mesochile constricted ; epichile 

 deeply divided into two broadly-oblong diverging lobes with truncate 

 minutely erose apices, the broad sinus with a minute point in its apex. 



Andaman Islands ; Calcutta Botanic Garden Collectors. 



A species near Z. moulmeinensis, Hook, fil., but having a longer 

 denser spike, smaller flowers, narrower non-aristate petals, a lip-sac 

 without septa, and much shorter petioles. 



Zeuxine Rolfiana, n. spec. Whole plant 15 to 18 in. high ; 

 stem sheathed at the base, 2 to 3 in. long. Leaves 3 or 4, alternate, close 

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