Oheirostylis.'] oxtviii. oechide^. (J. D. Hooker.) 105 



* Appendages of column as long as the rostellum. 



1. Ci pusllla, Lindl. Gen. & 8p. Orchid. 489; in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 iii. 188 (in part) ; glabrous, leaves very small ovate, raceme 2-3-fld., limb 

 of lip 2-lobed, lobes quadrate deeply toothed. Etseria pusilla, Wall. Cat. 

 7392. Zeuxine moniliformis, Griff. Notul. iii. 397; Ic. Plant. Asiat. 

 t. 350. 



Khasia Hiiis, alt. 4-5000 ft., Wallich, &c. 



Stem 3-6 in., prostrate below, often moniliform from the swollen internodes. 

 Leaves i-J in., scattered, acute acuminate or aristate ; petiole short. Scape 1-3 in. ; 

 sheaths and bracts oblong-lanceolate, cUiate ; flowers inclined, | in. long; sepals 

 pii^k, obtuse ; petals spathulate ; lip white, base shortly sa,coate, nerves with a few 

 fleMy setae within, claw finely hairy towards the tip ; columnar appendages fleshy, 

 as long as the rostellar arras ; anther lanceolate ; pollinia pyriform, gland very long. 

 — Closely resembles Oduntochilus pumUtis, and was confounded with it by Lindley. 



2. C. malleifera, Parish & Beichb. f. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxx. 

 141 ; glabrous, leaves very small ovate acute, raceme 3-5-fld., lobes of lip 

 entire. 



Tbnassbeim / on Zwakabin, Parish. 



Very like 0. pusilla, but there is no appearance in the specimens of a moniliform 

 stem, leaves rather larger, flowers not half the size, lip with a longer and shallower 

 base, and quite entire somewhat hatchet-shaped lobes ; anther with a dilated 

 membranous apex. 



3. C> Griffithii, Lindl. in Jowrn. Linn. Soc. i. 188 ; scape pubescent, 

 flowers 1-3 large, limb of lip reniform laciniate, appendages of column linear. 

 Goodyera No. 9, Griff. Notul. iii. 393. 



Khasia Hills, alf. 4-5000 ft., Griffith, Zobh, Clarke. Pb&o, Kurz (in Herb. 

 Calcutt.). Tbnassbrim ; on Mt. Tungoo, PamA. 



Stem below prostrate. Leaves 1 in., shortly petioled, ovate, acuminate; sheaths 

 very large, cupular, hyaline. Scape 3-8 in., slender ; sheaths and bracts large, 

 loose, lanceolate ; flowers nearly 1 in. long with the ovary, white with 2 green spots 

 on the lip ; sepals connate to the middle ; petals narrowly spathulate ; base of lip 

 elongate, concave, with 2 series of glandular setse within; claw short. Capsule 

 f in., pedicelled, pyriform. 



4. C. parvifolia,, Lindl. in Sot. Beg. 1839, Misc. 19; Gen. & Sp. 

 Orchid. 488; in Journ. Linn, Soc. i. 187; raceme puberulous lax-fld., 

 flowers minute, limb of lip subquadrate 6-8-lobed, appendages of tbe 

 column dilated upwards ratber short. Thwaites Enum. 313. 



Cetlon ; Ambagamowa district rare, Thwaites. 



A span high. Leaves 2-3 about the middle of the slender stem, ^-1^ in., ovate- 

 lanceolate, acuminate. Scape slender, puberulous ; raceme 8-10-fld. ; bracts as 

 long as the short pedicels ; sepals i in. long, glabrous, pink ; petals oblong-obovate, 

 obtuse, white ; lip with a subsaccate base containing 2 small forked calli, limb 

 white ; column very short, rostellar arms subulate ; anther ovate-cordate ; pollinia 

 pyriform, caudicle very short, gland linear.— The specimens are very poor, and the 

 species is perhaps better placed in the following section. 



** Appendages of column shorter than the short rostellum, rarely 

 as long. 



5. C. flabellata, Wight Ic. v. 16 ; scape glandular-pubescent, flowers 

 snbcorymbose, limb of lip suborbicular deeply 2-oleft, lobes sub 5-fid, 



