88 oxLvm. oROHiDEiE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Thelasis. 



DOUBTFITIi SPECIES. 



T. carinata, BeieJih. f. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxx. 137 ; ? of Blume Bijdr. 385 & 

 Lindl. Gen. f Sp. Orchid. 253. In the absence of flowers it is impossible to say 

 what species this may be ; it dififers greatly from the figure of Blume's T. cdrinata 

 (from Java) in its small size, slender scape, short decurved raceme, and bracts, in all 

 which, as in foliage, it closely resembles T. decurva, and is nearer to the Moluccan 

 0. micrcmtha, Brong. {in Buperrey Voy. Sot. 198, t. 37 B.) than to T. carinata. 



Tribe III. NBOTTIEH:. (See vol. v., p. 668.) 

 75. CrlLliHOliA, Lour. 



Leafless, rarely leafy, yellow or brown, climbing or erect herbs ; stem or 

 branctea terminating in loosely panioled often drooping racemes or 

 panicles; flowers rather large. Sepals subequal, concave, connivent or 

 spreading. , Petals as long, narrgwer or broader. lAp sessile at the base of 

 and loosely' embracing the column by its base, short, broad, concave ; lateral 

 lobes short or 0; midlobe broad. Golumn short or long, incurved, top 

 dilated membranous ; anther 2-celled ; poUinia hippocrepiform, powdery 

 or subwaxy. Capsule usually 2-4 valved, without septa ; seeds winged or 

 not.— Species 8 or 9, Indian, Malayan and Australian. 



* Stem simple, erect. 



1. Cr. Xiindleyana, Seichb.f. Xen. Orchid, ii. 78; tall, very robust, 

 sepals broadly ovate-oblong strongly ribbed dorsally, anther recurved 

 clothed with long papillss. Oyrtosia Lindleyana, Hooh.f. 8f Thorns, in III. 

 Simal. Plant, t. 22. Erythorchis Lindleyana, Beichb. f. ire Bonpland, v. 

 37. 



SiKKiM Himalaya, alt. 4-7000 ft., /. D. S., &c. PKhasia Hills, alt. 4000 ft., 

 J. D. B. if T. T. Naoa Hills, Frain. 



Sootstock elongate, very stout, 1-14 in. diam., tortuous, dark pink; roots very 

 stout simple fibres. Stem 2-3 ft., glabrous, with short i-amplexicaul obtuse sheaths 

 below, brown purple. Panicle loosely branched, branches horizontal, and yellow fliowers 

 furfuraceously tomentose; bracts small; perianth subglobose, 1 in. diam.; petals 

 broadly ovate, tip obtuse, crenate; lip nearly hemispheric, margins and short ex- 

 panded rounded limb erosely fimbriate, glabrous without, almost bearded within. 

 Capsule 5-6 by J in., fusiform, subacute, obtusely trigonous, red-brown, tardily 

 dehiscing. 



2. C Falconeri, Hook. f. ; tall, very robust, sepals broadly ovate 

 dorsally nearly smooth, anther glabrous. Pogochilus, Falc. in JELooh. 

 Journ. Pot. iv. (1842), 73. 



SuBTBOPiCAL Himalaya; from Garwhal, Falconer, to Sikkim, Thomson, &(s. 



Habit and stature of Q. Lindleyana, but difiering in the larger flowers and the cha- 

 racters given above. The rootstock is sometimes as thick as the wrist. Possibly only 

 a form of Lindleyana, but recognized as distinct by all collectors in Sikkim. . I did 

 not find it myself. 



3. C javanicaj Benth. in Gen. Plant, iii. 590; dwarf, stem very, 

 stout glabrous below furfuraceous above, sepals oblong membranous, 

 anther subhemispheric. Oyrtosia javanica, Blume Bijdr. 396, t. 6 ; 

 Rumph. i. 199, t." 69 ; Lindl. Gen. Sf Sp. Orchid. 438 ; Beichb. f. Xen. 

 Orchid, ii. 76, t. 120. 



Assam, Masters (Ic. in Sort. Calcutt.). — Disteib. Java. 



