GymMdium.'] cxlviii. orohidej;. (J. D. Hooker.) 13 



this in Herb. Kew and Calcutta, varying much in the depth of colouring of the 

 flowers. The veins of the lip are very strong, arched and purple on the broad hypo- 

 chile, which has 2 central hairy ridges, villous and diverging, and again meeting 

 at the base of the epichile. 



Var. ? Lowiana, Reichb. f . in Gard. Chron. 1887, i. 684 ; leaves 2-3 ft. by J-| in., 

 finely acuminate, side lobes of lip pale yellow green, midlobe dark purple with golden 

 margins. C. Lowianum, Eeichb. f. in Qard. Chron. 1879, 332, 405, f. 56 ; Floral 

 Mag. N. S. t. 353 ; Berlin Gartenz. 1885, t. 73 j OrcUdoph. 1882, 321 ; 1885, 145.— 

 Burma, Boxall {Rort. Low). — Perhaps a distinct species ; the leaves are more like 

 those of C. longifolium. The racemes attain 5 ft. in length, the very numerous 

 flowers vary in colour, and the lip in breadth. 



13. C. loniTlfolium, Bon Prodr. 36 ; leaves 2-3 ft. by i-| in. nar- 

 rowly linear finely acuminate, scape suberect or decurved many-fld., flowers 

 2-2^ in. diam., sepals and petals linear-oblong or -lanceolate acute greenish 

 streaked with red or purple, lip papillose within not ciliate, midlobe broadly 

 ovate or orbicular white or yellowish spotted with red. Lindl. Oen. ^ Sp. 

 Orchid. 163; in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 29; Reichb. f. in Oard. Chron. 1874, 

 14. 0. erythraeum, Lindl. I. c. 30. Limodoram angustifolium, Serb. 

 Mam. (ex Lindl. Gen. Sf 8p.) . 



SuBTEOEiOAii Himalaya, alt. 5-6000 ft., from Kumaon, BlinJcwortTi, eastwards. 

 Keasia Mts., common. 



Resembles 0. gigoMeum, but the leaves are very narrow, flowers smaller, and their 

 colouring diflerent. The lip is similar in shape, in the strong purple nerves, and 

 pubescent ridges. Lindley's O. ergthrwum is founded on a drawing of mine of the 

 flowers and fruit of a plant gathered in Sikkim, but of which I preserved no 

 specimens ; it has a small golden midlobe of the very narrow lip, but it otherwise does 

 not seem to differ from longifolium, to which the specimens of eryt&rwum in Lindlej's 

 Herbarium certainly belong. 



ff Bract.1 large, lanceolate or cymbiform. 



14. C. cyperifolium, Wall. Gat. 7353; leaves 2-3 ft. by 4-i in., 

 scape erect few-fid., bracts very slender equalling or exceeding the ovary, 

 sepals and petals linear-lanceolate acute pale green and yellow streaked 

 with red, lip narrow glabrous, greenish or white spotted with red. Lindl. 

 Gen. Sf Sp. Orchid. 163 ; in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 28. 0. heematodes, Lindl. 

 Gen. Sf Sp. Orchid. 162. 0. viridiflorum, Griff. Bin. Notes 126, No. 454. 

 Oyperorchis ? Wallichii, Blume Orchid. Archipel. Ind. 92. Limodorum 

 longifolium, Soxb. Fl. Lnd. iii. 468. 



SuBTBOEiOAL HIMALAYA; from Garwhal, alt. 5000 ft., Edgeworti, eastwards. 

 The Khasia, Naga and Mithnipohe Hills, alt. 3500-6500 ft. 



Leaves rigid, often petioled. Scape shorter than the leaves, slender ; sheaths ^2 in., 

 distant ; flowers 4-7, distant, sweet-scented ; lippubescent within ; pollinia 4, broadly 

 oblong, plano-convex, each pair of a large and small placed face to face. The 

 Eoxburghian figure of i. io»s'8/!on(ff}, from the Khasia Hills, agrees in every respect 

 except that the flowers are rose^oold. j it is described in the Flora Indica as having a 

 fusiform hulb and ealcarate lip ; in the drawing the bulb is the caudex denuded of 

 leaves, and there is no trace of a spur; the bracts, which in the drawing are 

 1^-2 in. long, are undescribed. The species approaches GyperorcMs, difiering in 

 habit. Lindley gives Ceylon, Macrae, as a habitat for his G. hcematodes (which is 

 certainly cyperijoUum), probably through the same error as afleots other plants 

 attributed by him to that country and collector. 



15. C> ensifolium, Swartz in Nov. Act. Upsal. vi. 77 ; leaves 2-3 ft., 

 l5y ij_13 in, sessile or petioled ensiformly lanceolate, bracts shorter than the 



