PhalcBnopsis.'] oxlviii. orchidb^. (J. D. Hooker.) 31 



1 in. diam. ; BepaU and petals dull yellow green mottled closely with dull red for 

 the basal half; lip small, white, side lobes erect streaked with red, mid lobe red 

 purple between the ridges ; forked appendage small, with a, 2-lobed callus behind 

 it ; column about half the length of the lip ; pollinia globose, strap short, euneate, 

 gland quadrate. — Described from dried flowers and a drawing of the whole plant in 

 Hort. Calcutt. 



** Lateral sepals inserted by a broad base on the elongate foot of the 

 column. 



8. P. Esmeralda, Reichb. f. in Gard. Ghron. 1874, ii. 582 ; lateral 

 sepals orbicular-ovate, petals broadly obovate, claw of lip long geniculate 

 with two narrow recurved auricles, side lobes broadly faloately obovate, 

 midlobe oblong. Bev. Eortic. 1877, t. 107 ; Warner Orchid. Alb. vii. t. 21 . 

 Floral Ma^. N. S. t. 358 ; Bolfe in Gard. Chron. 1886, ii. 276 ; OrcUdoph. 

 1881, t. 9. P. antennif era, Beichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1878, 398 ; 1882, 520 ; 

 Bolfe I. c. 1886, ii. 276. 



BiTEMA, Sort. Low. — DiSTBiB. Cochin China. 



ZeOA'es 4-6 in. Scape 1-2 ft., simple or branched, slender ; raehis elongate ; 

 flowers 1 in. diam., amethystine ; side lobes of lip erect, appressed, red-purple ; 

 disk with a 2-awned callus in front of the auricles, and a raised thickened fleshy ridge 

 from the base of the side lobes to the tip of the midlobe. 



9. P. Parishil, Beichb. f. in Gard. Oftr-om. 1865, 410 ; 1871,802; Xen. 

 Orchid, i. 144, t. 156, f. 1. in Saunders Befug. Bot. t. 86 ; flowers small, 

 lateral sepals subrotund, lip short sessile, side lobes small falcate, midlobe 

 much broader shortly stipitate reniformly cordate. Bot. Mag. t. 5815; 

 Bolfe in Gard. Ghron. 1886, ii. 276. 



Eastebn Himaiata, Lohb, Mann. Cachab, Keenan. Tbuassbriii, Lohh. 



Leaves 3-5 in., linear or obovate-oblong. Scape 3-4 in., 6-8-fld. ; flowers 

 J iu. diam. ; sepals and obovate petals oream-eold. ; lip mobile, purple-brown ; disk 

 with a narrow 4-awned appendage at the base overlapping a much broader ciliate 

 lamina j rostellum 3-partite. — The figure in Saunders' Refug. is of var. Zoblii, E. f. 

 which has a white lip with two chestnut bands. 



SPEOIBS OB nOUBTPTTL POSITION. 

 p. rusoAlA, Beiehh. f. in Gard. Chron. 1874, ii. 6 ; " allied to P. Cornu-cervi, 

 roots short, leaves very broad oblong obtuse acute, flowers medium-sized, sepals 

 oblong obtusely acute,, petals cuneately oblong obtuse, lip 3-partite, side segments 

 ligulate retuse one toothed on each side, umbonate on the middle of the lower side, 

 mid-segment oblong acute keeled in the middle, base with a 2-toothed callus, and 

 with an aristatf ligula on each side behind it, column not angled (exangulaia) at the 

 base." — Malayan Peninsula, Sari. Bull. — Characters from Reichenbach 1. c, who 

 does not describe the inflorescence, or whether the column has a foot or not. 



54. DORXTXS, Undl. 



Characters of Phalcenopsis, and having the same 2-awned plate on the 

 disk of the lip, but the column is narrowly winged, its foot longer forming 

 a spur-like mentum with the side lobes of the lip. — Species 5, Indian and 

 Malayan. 



D. pulcherrima, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7348 (Oen. If Sp. Orchid. 178, Seiohh. f. 

 Xen. OrcWd. ii. 7), a Siam species, with flowers nearly 1 in. diam. in a panicle 2-3 ft. 

 long, probably occurs in the Straits region. 



1. D. tsenialis, Benth. in Gen. Plant, iii. 574 ; scape short few-fld., 

 mentum acute, side lobes of lip very narrow spathulate reflexed on the 

 disk, tips of the forked appendage of the lip hooked. JSrides teeniale, 



