78 oxLviii. OEOHiDB^. (J. D. Hooket.) [Microsaeeus. 



diam. ; sepals lanceolate, greenish ; petals shorter and narrower j lip orbicular, npicu- 

 late, thick, greenish, base constricted into 2 obscure side lobes ; poUinia 4, globose, 

 gland rather large.— Described chiefly from a drawing and description by Scortechini. 

 The Java and Bornean specimens are not in flower, but otherwise agrees with the 

 Indian. 



70; DXPZiOCENTIlUDZ, Lindl. 

 Epiphytes ; stems short leafy, pseudobulbs 0. Leaves distichous, 

 narrow, fleshy, subterete or complicate. Pedvmcle lateral, often branched ; 

 flowers small, in long snbspiciform racemes. Sepals free, connivent, sub- 

 equal or the lateral larger. Petals like the dorsal sepal. Lip sessile, 

 jointed on the base of the column, spreading, entire, shortly 2-spurred, 

 disk fleshy. Column very short, 2-aurioled, truncate ; anther 2-celled ; 

 pollinia 2, ovoid, sulcate or 2-partite, attached by a broad strap to a 

 broad gland. — Species 2-3, Indian. 



1. D. recurvum, Lindl. in Bot. Beg. tmder i. 1522; in Wall. Oat. 

 7331 ; Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 218 ; leaves 4-6 in. linear, panicle long-pedun- 

 oled, branches spreading. Wight Ic. t. 1680, and D. longifolium, Wight 

 I. c. t. 1681. Oymbidium alofolium, Serb. Seyne. 



NiLOHEKY and Teavanoobe, Wight, &c. Ceyion, in the Central Province, 

 Stem 2-6 in., densely leafy. Leaves linear, keeled, \-\ in. broad, unequally 

 obtusely 2-fid, recurved. Fanicle with peduncle 5-8 in. ; flowers J in. diam., densely 

 crowded towards the ends of the spreading branches ; bracts minute, acute ; sepals 

 and petals deep pink or brownish tinged with pink j lip ovate-oblong, longer than 

 the petals, entire, pinkish lilac or crimson spur much shorter than the blade of the 

 lip, conical, incurved, obtuse ; column very stout, auricles incurved, rostellum 

 inconspicuous ; anther truncate, cells basal, strap of pollinia narrowed from the broad 

 base upwards. Oapsule i in., clavate. 



2. D. cong'estum, Wight Ic. t. 1682; leaves 2-3 in. broadly 

 oblong, spike very stout stoutly peduncled simple or shortly branched at 

 the base. 



Tbavancore ; in the lyamallay Hills, Wight. 



Stem very short. Leaves ^-^ in. broad, deeply unequally 2-lobed, lobes obtuse. 

 Peduncle with dense-fld. spike 4-6 in., rachis very stout j bracts minute, acute ; 

 flowers about J in. diam. ; colour, lip, spurs, column, anther and pollen m uch lik? 

 D. recurvum. 



70/2. mVSTACIDXUIH, Lindl. 



Epiphytes, pseudobulbs 0. Leaves few, distichous, linear, coriaceous. 

 Flowers in axillary racemes, small. Sepals anipetals subequal, free, spread- 

 ing. Lip adnate to the base of the column, 3-lobed, spurred. Column 

 very short, foot ; anther hinged on to the top of the column ; pollinia 2, 

 globose, attached by separate straps to the gland. — Species about 20, 

 tropical African and one Cingalese. 



This genus should, I think, be reduced to Angraeeum. 



K. zeylanicum, Trimen. Cat. Geylon PI. 90. Angraeeum zey- 

 lanioum, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soa. iii. 40 ; Thwaites JSnum. 306. 



Ceylon ; near Galle, Champion. 



Stem 3-4 in. Leaces 6-10 by J-f in., flat, narrowed to the acuminate apex, 

 rigid, many-nerved. Scapes many, shorter than the leaves, very slender, rigid, 



