156 cxLviii. OBCHiDE^. (J. D. Hooker.) \_ndbenaria. 



Maiatan Peninbtia ; on Mt. Ophir, Griffith {Kew Distrih., 5359), Lobb, Peeak, 

 ScortecMni, alt. 7000 ft., Wray. 



Boot of thick tomentose fibres spreading from the crown, which gives off one or 

 more long-petioled leaves and a tall rather slender scape. Madical leaf 4-6 in. Scape 

 with the raceme 12-18 inches high, with membranous basal sheaths, and bearing 

 one or more sessile or oblong leaves about the middle, and with 2-8 small distant 

 ovate herbaceous sheaths above them. Spike 4-6 in.; flowers distant ; bracts J- in. long, 

 lanceolate, acuminate ; sepals dorsal, 3-nerved, nearly orbicular, lateral i in. subacute, 

 reflexed ; lip elongate, linguiform, obtuse ; anther broad, cells distant divergent, 

 tubes hardly any ; pollinia shorter than their stout caudicles, glands large orbicular ; 

 stigmatic processes ; rostellum very obscure. Capsule (immature) sessile, curved.— 

 A remarkable species, in habit unlike any other. The solitary long-petioled radical 

 leaf, sometimes distant from the flowering stem, is very peculiar, and closely resembles 

 that of Cryptostylis (Zosterostylis, Blume), zeylanica. 



Sect. VI. Peeistylus. (See p. 132.) 



* Spur as long tlie sepals, or longer, or shorter in M. aristata. 



t Leaves scattered along the stem, or radical. (See also 83. H. Gardner!.) 



78. K. bicornuta, Hook. f. ; leaves lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 

 spike long many-fld., bracts equalling or exceeding tlie ovary, lateral 

 sepals linear obtuse, petals as long elliptic, lip tripartite, segments fili- 

 form, lateral longer than the sepals recurved over the flower, mid-seg- 

 ment shorter, spur longer than the sepals clavate or fusiform incurved. 

 Peristylus Richardianus, Wight Ic. t. 1097. 



The Westebn Ghats ; on the Nilghiri and Pulney hills, ascending to 6500 ft. 



Stem 1-2 ft., rather stout. Leaves 2-3 in., sessile, acute or acuminate, 5-7- 

 nerved. Spike 6-10 in., rather dense-fld. ; bracts herbaceous, lanceolate, acuminate, 

 lower ^-f in. ; sepals J in. long, dorsal oblong obtuse sub 5-nerved, lateral erect at 

 length spreading ; petals 1-nerved ; lip with a large concave claw, mid-segment 

 variable in length from triangular to linear, straight, obtuse ; spur stout ; anther 

 minute, cells parallel, tubes 0, pollinia clavate, caudicles short j stigmatic processes 

 long, lying in the claw of the lip ; rostellum truncate, plicate, concealing the base of 

 the cells and pollen glands ? — Blackens when dry. Differs from steiiostachya in the 

 larger flowers, long side lobes of the lip, and spur. 



79. XX. stenostachya, SentJi. Fl. Komjlc. 362 ; leaves lanceolate 

 acuminate, spike narrow lax- or dense-fld., flowers small, bracts equalling 

 or exceeding the ovary, lateral sepals linear obtnse, petals lai-ger than 

 the sepals triangalar-ovate or oblong fleshy, lip as long as the sepals 3-fid, 

 side lobes subulate, midlobe usually shorter broader and obtuse, spur straight 

 about as long as the ovary. H. peristyloides, Wight Ic. 1. 1702. Platan- 

 thera stenostachya, lAndl. in Hook. Journ. Bot. vii. (1855) 37. (Jymna- 

 deuia ? tenuis, lAndl. in Wall. Gat. 7057. Coeloglossum densum, imrf/. 

 Gen. Sf Sjp. Orchid. 302. 0. peristyloides, Reichb. f. in Bonpland. 1856, 

 321. 0. oernunm, £f. I. c. 1855, 250. 



SixKiM Himalaya, King (Serb. Calcutt.), the Khasia Hills, Tenasseeim, 

 and the Deooak" Pekinstjla, from the Concan Southward. — Disteie. China. 



Stem with the spike 6-30 in., usually slender, with many small sheaths above the 

 leaves. Leaj)e« 1-4 in., sometimes all subradical, erect, bases sheathing, 5-7-nerved. 

 Spike 3-5 in. ; flowers small, erect, greenish yellow or white, about i in. diam. ; 

 bracts 4— I in., broadly ovate-lanceolate, finely acuminate ; ovary i in.; sepals i in. 

 long, subequal, concave, lateral suberect, at length spreading, nerve very thick, 

 produced into a point under the apex of the sepal ; lip with a large excavate base, 

 very variable in the length of the lobes, lateral spreading or recurved; anther 



