Staurojosie.'] oxlviii. orohideji, (J, D, Hooker.) 27 



51. STAUBOPSXS, Beiohb.f. 



Epiphytes; stem stout, leafy. Leaves distiolious, coriaceous, flat, 

 2-lobed. Flowers in lateral racemes. Sepals and similar but smaller 

 petals widely spreading. I/ip sessile, adnate to the base or sides of the 

 column, incurved, base simple or saccate, lobes narrow, disk naked or hairy. 

 Column short, thick, foot 0, top truncate ; anther 1-celled ; poUinia 2, sub- 

 globose, 2-cleft ; strap broad, gland large. — Species about 8, Malayan. 



1. S. grlgranteus, Benth. in Gen. Plant. \i\. 572; flowers very large 

 golden-yellow ocellately blotched with cinnamon, sepals and petals spathu- 

 lately obovate, lip white hatchet-shaped obtuse, base cordate, side lobes 

 rounded, midlobe narrow obtuse fleshy, disk with a broad conical callus. 

 Fieldia gigantea, Reichh. f. Xen. Orchid, ii. 39 ; Walp. Ann. vi. 871. 

 Vanda gigantea,.£iredi. in Wall. Oat. 7326 ; Oen. & 8p. Orchid. 215 ; Fol. 

 Orchid. 2 ; Bot. Mag. t. 5189. BeicM.f. I. c. 38, t. 112; Bl. Sortie. 1861, 

 277 ; Bev. Sortie. 1874, t. 291. Y. Lindleyana, Ch-iff. Notul. iii. 353. 



Tbnassbbim ; at Moulmein, Wallioh, Griffith. 



Stem pendulous. Iiewves 1-2 ft. by 2-3 in., very thick, flat. SacemeW-15 in., 

 decurved, many-fld, ; rachis very stout ; bracts short, broad ; flowers 3 in. diam. j 

 lateral sepals homed behind below the tip. — Griffith describes two sterile stamens 

 between the lateral sepals and petals. 



2. S. undulatUB, Benth. mas. ; flowers 1| in. diam. nearly white, 

 sepals and petals spathulately oblanceolate waved, base of lip saccate 

 adnate to the sides of the column, midlobe laterally compressed 3-ridged 

 Vanda undulata, Lindl. in Joum. Linn. Sac. iii. 42 ; Beiohb. f. in Oard 

 Chron. 1875, ii. 212 ; 1878, i. 168. 



Easteen StTBTEOPlOAi. HIMALAYA; Sikkim and Bhotan, ascending to 6000 ft. 

 The Khabia Hills, alt. 5-6000 ft. 



Stem 6-10 in. ; sheaths and scape minutely warted. Leaves 3-4 by ^| in., 

 unequally obtusely 2-lobed. Scape 5-8 in. and raceme strict, erect, laxly few-fld. 

 near the top j bracts ^ in. long, broad, obtuse ; flowers white flushed with pink or 

 purplish J sepals acuminate, undulate, lateral deflexed ; petals similar but smaller ; 

 lip yellow, base orbicular, sides streaked with pink ; midlobe linguiform ; tip 

 truncate, sometimes purplish j poUiuia globose, strap short, gland large transverse. — 

 I am very doubtful as to the affinity of this plant, which differs from 8. gigantens 

 in the base of the lip being adnate-to the sides of the column, and forming with it a 

 cup with a thickened rim. 



52. ARiVCHNANTKE, 



Characters of Stauropsis, but lip jointed on to the base of the column 

 and mobile. — Species 5 or 6, Himalayan and Malayan. 



This character of the mobile lip requires confirmation in the living plant of some 

 species. 



* Flowers in simple racemes. Side lobes of lip nrnch smaller than the 

 midlobe. 



1. A. Cathcartil, Benth. in Oen. Plant, iii. 573 ; scape few-fld., 

 lateral sepals and petals broadly elliptic obtuse, side lobes of lip small 

 rounded. Esmeralda Cathcartii, Beiohb. f. Xen. Orchid, ii. 38 ; Walp. 

 Ann. vi. 871. Vanda Cathcartii, Hooh. f. III. Simal. PI. t. 23 ; Bot. Mag. 

 t. 5845 ; Lindl.Fol. Orchid. 8 ; III. Ecyrtic. 1858, 187 ; Flore des Ser. 1. 1251 : 

 Warner Orchid. Alb. .t. 168 ; Jenning's Orchid, t. 10 ; Floral Mag. W. S. 

 t. 66 ; Gard. Chron. 1870, 1409. 



