32 oxLviii. OECHiDE^. (J. D. Hooker.) \^DoriUs. 



Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 239 ; m Jowrn. Linn. Soc, iii. 41. M. caraosum, 

 Griff. Notul. iii. 365 ; Ic. Plant. Asiat. t. 338 A. 



SI7BTB0PICAI. Himalaya ; from Kuraaon, alt. 3-6000 ft., eastwards to Bhotan, 

 the Khasia Mts., Mtjnnipoee and Bubma. 



Soots 1-3 ft., flat, i-i in. broad, forming large tortuous tufts. Leaves few, 3-5 in., 

 obovate-oblong, obtuse or subacute, narrowed to the sessile base, soft when dry. 

 Scape 1-2 in. ; bracts small, broad; flowers § in. diam., mauve purple; midlobe of 

 lip dark red or purple. Capsule 1^ in., fusiform. 



2. D. Wi^htii, Benth. in Gen. Plant, iii. 574 ; soape elongate simple 

 or branched, side lobes of spreading lip broad cuneate-obovate, midlobe 

 oboordate. Phalsenopsis Wightii, Beichb.f. in Bot. Zeit. 1862, 214. iErides 

 latifoliam, Th/ivaites JEnum. 430. 



Easteen Himalaya; Sikkim (Jc. in Hort. Calcutt.) ; Bhotan, Lister. Chitta- 

 GONO (Sort. Calcutt.). BuEMA; Moulmein, Parish; Mougong, Griffith. The 

 CiEOAES, Meyne. Malabae, Wight, &c. Ceylon; Thwaiies. 



Habit of D. tcenialis, but leaves rather larger, scape much longer, and lip very 

 different. 



55. RKVNCHOSTVXiXS, Blume. 



Epiphytic, stem stout leafy, pseudobulbs 0. Leaves very thick, linear, 

 2-lobed. Flowers in long dense drooping cylindrio racemes, bright-cold. 

 Sepals and broader petals obtuse, spreading, contracted at the base. Lip 

 adnate to the base of the column, deeply saccate, mouth of sac pubescent 

 within, side lobes 0, outer margin produced into a clawed dilated limb. 

 Column short stout, foot ; rostellum shortly beaked ; anther imperfectly 

 2-celled ; pollinia 2, subglobose, 2-cleft, strap filiform, gland small. — 

 Species 2 or 3, Indian or Malayan. 



R. retUBa, Blume Bijdr. 286, t. 49 ; leaves deeply channelled keeled 

 prsemorse or retuse, raceme drooping, sac cylindric much longer than the 

 limb of the lip. E. praemorsa, Blum£ I, c. R. guttata, Beichb.f. in Bonpland. 

 ii. 93. E. G-arwalica, JBeicM./. m TFaZp. .4ffl». vi. 888. Saccolabium gutta- 

 tum, Lindl. in Wall. Oat. 7308; Gen. 6f Sp. Orchid. 220; in Jowrn. Linn. 

 Soc. iii. 32 ; Bot. Mag. t. 4108 ; Wight Ic. t. 1745-6 : Dah. Sf G4bs. Bomb. 

 Fl. 263 ; Hartm. Parad. ii. t. 3 ; Orchidoph. 1888, 273 (var. gigantea) ; Be 

 Vriese Orchid, t. 14. Warner Sel. Orchid. Ser. 2, t. 18 ; Griff, to. PI. Asiat. 

 t. 819. S. praemorsum, Lindl. I. c. 221. S. Sheedii, Wight Ic, v. 19. S. 

 -vetusum, Fl. des Serres xiv. 191, 1. 1463-4. S. Heathii, Hort., ex Oard. Chron. 

 1885, 369. S. 'BlvLmei,Lindl. Sert. t. 4,7; in Bot. Beg. 1841, Misc. 55 ; 111 Hortic. 

 t. 545 ; Pwydt. t. 37 ; Warner Orchid. Alb. 1. 169 andt. 238 (var.) ; Pescator. 

 t. 21. S. garwalicum, Lindl. in Jonrn. Linn. Soc. iii. 32; in Gard. Chron. 

 1879, 102. Sarcanthus guttatus, Lindl. in Bot. Beg. t. 1443. .lErides gut- 

 tata m, Booch. Fl. Ind. iii. 471 ; Begel Gartenfl. 1863, 415. .31. retusum, 

 Swairtz in Schrad. Diar. 1799, 130 ; Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 130 ; Grah. Oat. 

 Bomb.Pl. 204. M. spicatum, I)on Prodr. 31. Al. praemorsum, Willd. I. c. 

 Limodorum retusum, Swartz in Nov. Act. Upsal. vi. 80. Epidendrum 

 retusum, lAnn. Sp. PI. 1351. E. Hippium, Hero.\3am. — Bheede Sort.\Mal. 

 xii. 1. 1. 



Teopical Himalaya, from Garwhal eastwards to Assam and Tenasserim, and 

 southwards to Bengal, the Westeen Peninsula and Cetlon. — Disteie. Malay 

 Islands. 



Stem stout, creeping in trees. Leaves 6-20 by -1-2 in., curved. Racemes 4-18 in. ; 

 bracts broad, obtuse, membranous ; flowers J-f in. diam., white blotched with pink or 

 violet; lateral sepals gibbously orbicular-ovate, obtuse or apiculate, dorsal oblong ; 



