94 oXLTiii. oucmuEM. (J. D. Hooker.) [Tropidia. 



subulate, lip ovate intramarginal lamellae continuous to the base of the 

 reflexed apex. Onemidia oirculigoideE, Thwaites Enum. 315 {not of 

 Lindl.). 



Ceylon j in hot dry places, Macrae, Thwaites. 



Stem 6-12 in., slender. Leaves 3-6 by i-f in., narrowly linear-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, 3-5-nerved. Peduncle 1 in., naked; spike i in.; bracts rather longer 

 than the smooth ovaries ; flowers i-i in. long; sepals with very thick midnerves, 

 dorsal oblong S-nerved, lateral ovate-lanceolate acuminate 5-nerved ; petals oblong, 

 obtuse, 3-nerved ; lip rather thick. 



IMPERFEOTLT KNOWN SPECIES, 



Cnemidia bameus.ei'Olia, Thwaites Enum. 314 ; stem 2-3 ft., leaves few S-S 

 by li-2i in. elliptic-lanceolate caudate -acuminate 5-nerved, spike terminal sessile 

 I in. long, bracts crowded lanceolate lower narrower i in. long. 



Cetlon ; Suffi-agan district, Thwaites. — Desoript. from Thwaites. 



Teopidia sp. (T. curculigoides, Kurz, from the Andaman Islands), a small slender 

 species, with lanceolate subacute 3-nerved leaves 2-3 by J-f in. 



Tbopima sp. ; from Sikkim, alt. 1500 ft. (King in Herb. Ca/c««.) .—Resembles 

 T, curculigoides, but is much larger, with 7-9-nerved leaves 7-11 in. long by 2-2i 

 broad, and small fruit i in. long. 



79. FZIirSVairS^ Bichard. 



Terrestrial, leafy herbs ; stem below creeping ; roots fibrous. Leaves 

 petioled, membranous, ovate or lanceolate. Flowers small, spicate. Sepals 

 free, dorsal smaller forming a hood with the petals. Lip erect from the 

 base of the column, spreading or recurved ; spur exserted beyond the 

 bases of the sepals. Column very short, not appendaged in front, rostellnm 

 2-fld ; stigma anticous, prominent ; anther erect, 2-celled ; pollinia 

 2, clavate. — Species about 20, Asiatic and American. 



1. P. Blumei, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7397; Gen. Sf 8p. Orchid. 504; 

 in Journ. Linn. Soc. i. 181 ; bracts equalling the ovary, lip short, terminal 

 lobe transversely oblong entire, spur much shorter than the ovary 2-lobed. 

 Thwaites Enum. 314. P. humilis, Blume Orchid. Archip. t. 27, f. 2. 



SiLHET, Wallich. Ceyion ; in the Central Province, Macrae, &c. — Disteib. 

 Java. 



Stem 1-2 ft., slender, glabrous below. Leaves scattered, 2J-3 in., petioled, 

 obliquely ovate or subcordate, acute, 3-nerved. Scape pubescent ; sheaths distant, 

 finely acuminate; spike 2-5 in., villous; sepals i in. long, brownish-red, obtuse, 

 1-nerved ; petals spathulate, 1-nerved ; lip white, contracted at the base of the ter- 

 minal lobe, spur subcylindric or inflated, nerves strong hooked. 



2. P- hirsutus, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. i. 180 ; tall, stout, 

 villously hirsute, leaves ovate acuminate 7-nerved subglauoous beneath, 

 base acute. Goodyera hirsuta, Oriff. Notul. iii. 393 ; Ic. Plant. Asiat. 

 t. 347. 



Assam ; on the Burmese frontier, Qriffith. 



Stem as thick as a goose quill. Leaves 4r-5 in., oblique. Sepals, petals, and 

 lip brownish, blade of the latter white.— A very imperfectly known plant, of 

 which there are no specimens in Grifiiths' Herbarium at Kew. 



80. ANS:CTOCKIX.US, Slume. 

 Terrestrial herbs ; _ stem below creeping. Leaves petioled, ovate or 

 lanceolate. Flowers in glandular-pubescent spikes. Sepals free, dorsal 



