1896.] G. King & R. Pantling — New Orchids from SikJcim. 329 



north than the mountains of Perak. The genus is mainly Australasian ; 

 thirteen species being natives of Australia, New Zealand and Samoa, 

 "while five are Malayan. The flower is remarkable for the great deve- 

 lopment of the dorsal sepal, the lateral sepals being filiform ; the petals 

 also are either very small or, as in the present instance, altogether 

 absent. 



POGONIA, Griff. 



Pogonia Pbainiana, n. spec. Tubers globular, warted, - 5 to '6 in. 

 in diam. produced at the ends of runners 2 in. long. Scape 3 to 6 in. 

 high, 1-flowered, bearing 5 or 6 bracts, the lower 4 or 5 being unequal, 

 sheathing-, blunt, the uppermost acuminate and about 1 in. long. Leaf 

 from a separate tuber, orbicular, reniform and plicate, 2"5 in. broad, its 

 petiole 1 in. long. Floral bract triangular, minute, very much shorter 

 than the ovary. Flower 1 in. in diarn., nodding. Sepals narrowly 

 oblong, blunt, "75 in. long. Petals linear-lanceolate, blunt. Lip longer 

 than the sepals, convolute on the column ; the side lobes short, triangu- 

 lar ; the terminal lobe shortly suborbicular, its margins fimbriate and 

 its disc with about 7 densely glandular-pubescent vertical lines. 

 Column clavate. 



Sikkim : Lachoong Valley at an elevation of about 6,500 feet, 

 flowering in June. Pantling No. 372. 



Pogonia Hookeriana, n. spec. Stem 2 in. long, glabrous, with one 

 or two sheathing bracts near the base. Leaf 2 in. broad, appearing with 

 the flowers, reniform- orbicular, the margins undulate, the nerves sub- 

 scaberulous near the base ; petiole nearly as long as the stem, sub- 

 scaberulous-striate. Flowers two, about 1 in. long; the flower bract 

 linear-lanceolate, half as long as the pedicellate ovary. Sepals and petals 

 sub-equal, linear-lanceolate. Lip oblong, with 2 short blunt sub-trian- 

 gular side-lobes, and an ovate sub-acute terminal lobe, the upper surface 

 with 3 parallel ridges extending from its base to the end of the side 

 lobes. 



Sikkim : At an elevation of 3,000 feet ; in flower in August. 

 G. King No. 2153. 



Collected only once, and the exact locality unknown. The leaf and 

 flower are contemporaneous, and in this respect unique amongst the 

 Indian species of the genus. 



Pogonia falcata, n. spec. Tubers globular, warted, -25 to 35 in 

 in diam. Scape from the apex of the tuber, 1 "75 to 2 - 5 in. high, glab- 

 rous, 1-flowered, bearing several oblong sheathing thin membranous 

 bracts at intervals. Floiver - 4< to - 6 in. long including the ovary; the 

 floral bract lanceolate, longer than the ovary. Sepals and petals sub- 

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