Galeola.] cxlviii. orohidbje. (J. D. Hooker.) 89 



Stem a span high from branching tubers. Flowers f in. diam. — The identification 

 of the Assam drawing with Blume's figure and description is necessarily imperfect ; 

 but as far as it goes, there is no reason to suppose that these represent two species. 



4. ? G- pusilla; Soolc. /. ; stem flexuoas from a woody nodose root- 

 sfcock, with, several short tubular basal sheaths and two open ones higher 

 up .S-fld., bracts lanceolate equalling the ovary, sepals broadly ovate-oblong 

 subacute, petals as large obtuse, lip orbicular concave retuse with a very 

 small obtuse apical lobe in the sinus, disk papillose with 3 central low 

 ridges. 



Pegu ; on the Pookee ridges, Knrz (in Seri. Oalcutt.). 



Whole plant 5 in. high, white j rootstock tortuous, woody, as thick as a sparrow's 

 quill, with woody roots as thick as the stock. Stem slender, basal sheaths i~| in., 

 truncate, funnel-shaped j bracts J in. long, membranous ; flowers about -f in. diam. ; 

 sepals and petals 5-7-nerved ; lip with a brown lunate band, apical lobe recurved j 

 column long, semiterete ; anther erect, oblong, 2-celled ; pollinia hypocrepiform ? ; 

 stigma below the clinandrium in front. — I have seen but one specimen of this curious 

 little plant, as to the genus of which I am doubtful. 



** Stem branched, scandent. 



5. G. altissima, Seichb.f. Xen. Orchid, ii. 77 ; quite glabrous, stem 

 very slender, spikes very many-flowered, sepals and petals linear-oblong, 

 lip with a broad fleshy ridge and a 2-lobed woolly mass on the disk. Cyrtosia 

 altissima, Slume Bijdr. 396 ; JRumph. i. t. 70 ; Lindl. Gen. Sf Sp. Orchid. 

 26. Erythorchis altissima, Blume Bumph. i. 200 ; Lindl. I. c. 438, in part. 

 Hsematorchis altissima, Slume I. c. iv. t. 200 B. 



PENANa, Curtis. Pbeai, ScortecMni. — Disteib. Malay Islands. 



JSoot of fleshy thick fibres. Stem 50-120 ft., excessively branched, flexuous, fleshy 

 and hard, reddish, branches slender, internodes swollen ; spikes 6-10 in., pendulous ; 

 flowers i in. long; sepals obtuse, 5-nerved, and narrower 3-nerved petals with 

 rounded tips ; lip cymbiform, tip rounded erosely waved, disk with a median broad 

 fleshy puberulous disk reaching to the middle, beyond which is a 2-lobed woolly 

 mass J sides of lip thin, transversely barred with purple, with slender nerVes and 

 impressed hairs; column rather long ; anther mitriform. Copswfe linear, 3-10 in. 

 long, acuminate, valves membranous, 



6. G-. Hydra, Beichb.f. Xew. Orchid, ii. 77 ; f urfuraceously puberulous, 

 lateral sepals obliquely ovate; dorsal oblong, petals elliptic, lip cymbiform 

 erose papillose within and with a compressed erect grooved callus towards 

 the base. G. altissima p, JReichb. f. in Trans. Linn. 8oc. xxx. 185. 

 Vanilla pterosperma, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7402. P V. rubiginosa, Oriff. 

 Notul. iii. 247. Erythorchis altissima, Lindl. Oen. & Sp. Orchid. 438, in 

 part (not of Slume). 



SiKKiM Himalaya ; in the Rishap Valley, Kinff. Tekahseeim ; at Moulmein, 

 Parish. PiNANG, Curtis. Peeak, Singapobe, and Malacca, Wallich, &c.— 

 Disteib. Java, Sumatra. 



A lofty climber; branches much stouter than in G. altiisima; inflorescence 

 loosely branched ; flowers much larger, f in. diam., sepals and petals broader, and 

 lip without the flat ridge and tuft of wool.— Blume's specimens of 6. altissima in 

 Herb. Kew consists of fruit of that plant and flowering branches of this. 



7. G- Cathcartii; Sook.f.; branches very robust, sepals and petals 

 linear-oblong revolute, lip cymbiform acute, margins everted undulate and 

 ciliate, disk naked. 



SiKKiM Himalaya (Ic. Cathcart). 



