26 cxLTiii. ORCHiDB^E. (J. D. Hooktti'.) [Lutsia, 



on each side, epichile broadly triangular-ovate, column purplish, anther with 2 yel- 

 lowish eyes in the centre of each half. — Assam, Senson (Sort. Veitch). — Description 

 from the author 1. c. Possibly the sepals longer than the petals is an error, due to the 

 omission of a, comma in the phrase " sepalis ligulatis acntis petalis longioribus." 



Ctmbidium tbnuieohum, Willd. of Thwaites mss. (0. P. 3530) is certainly not 

 L. tenuifoUa, Bl., having short petals and a broad lip. It is probably a new species 

 near jiliformis, but the specimen being solitary and only 1-fld. I leave it 

 undeseribed. 



50. COTTONIA, Wight. 

 An epiphyte, stem leafy. Leaves long, narrow, coriaceous. Scape tall, 

 very slender, branched. Flowers in short terminal racemes. Sepals sub- 

 equal and narrower petals widely spreading. lAp sessile at the base of 

 the column, much longer than the sepals, flat, spreading ; side lobes minute 

 basal ; midlobe subpanduriform, retuse. Column short, foot ; anther short, 

 2- celled; pollinia 2, pyriform, 2-cleft ; strap linear, sides recurved ; gland 

 minute. Capsule slender, elongate. 



C. macrostacliya, Wight Ic. t. 1755 ; Dalz. & Cribs. Bomb. JFl. 

 263; Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc.iii. 39; Bot. Mag. t. 7099. 0. pedun- 

 oularis, Reiehb.f. in Cat. Orchid. Schiller 1857, 52; Thwaites Enum. 303 ; 

 Walp. Ann. vi. 860. Vanda peduncularis, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 216 ; 

 Paxf. Fl. Card. iii. t. 253. 



The Deccan PEiriirsiriA ; on the Ghats from the Concan southwards. CETLOlf ; 

 in the Central Province. 



Stem 4-8 in.,- leafy; internodes short. Leaves 5-6 by ^— | in., lorate, recurved, 

 unequally obtusely 2-lobed. Scape 12-18 in., strict, erect ; branches few, tipped by 

 short racemes ; pedicels long, slender ; bracts ovate ; flowers f in. diam. ; sepals ob- 

 long and snbspathulate ; petals dirty orange with red streaks ; lip dark purple with a 

 broad villous golden margin ; side lobes ear-like with 3 calli between them, the 

 median pubescent, disk of midlobe with median callus ; column puberulous j rostellum 

 obscure. Capsule IJ in. — JLip like that of Ophrys aranifera. 



50/1. DIFZiOFRORA, fooJ:./. 



Stem short, slender. Leaves falcately lanceolate, acuminate. Scape 

 short, simple, few-fld. Sepals widely spreading, keeled. Petals obovate. 

 Lip as long as the petals, margins adnate to the sides of the column, cym- 

 biform and sigmoidly curved, suddenly narrowed into a compressed 

 2-caudate tip, disk keeled. Column very short, foot ; anther 2-celled ; 

 pollinia 2, globose ; strap short linear, sides recurved ; gland small. Capsule 

 slender. 



D. Cbampioni, MooTc. f. ; Ic. Plant, ined. Cottonia Championi, Lindl. 

 in LLook. Journ. Bot. vii. (1855) 35; in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 39; Benth.Fl. 

 Songh. 357. Luisia bicaudata, Thwaites Enum. 302. Vanda bicaudata, 

 Thwaites I. e. 429. 



BuoTiN HiMAiATA, Gammie. Khasia Mts., alt. 3-4000 ft., J. D. H. Sf T. T. 

 Tenassebim, Parish. Cetlon, Thwaites. — Distbib. Hong Kong. 



Stem 1-3 in., ascending. Leaves 3-4 by ^-f in., thin and many-nei-ved when 

 dry. Scape 1-2 in., stout ; rachis flexuous ; flowers few, J in. diam., yellow; lip 

 with a deep longitudinal ridge within, sides streaked with red ; column papillose. 

 Capsule li in. — Very distinct from Cottonia in habit, foliage, inflorescence and lip, 

 and much nearer Phalanopsis, but wants the appendages on the disk of the lip and the 

 side lobes, and dift'ers strikingly in habit. 



