Arundina.'] OKCHiDEiE. 355 



t. A. chinensis. Blame; lAndl. Gen. et 8p. Orch. 125. Stems erect, 



1 ft. high or more, leafy to near the top. Leaves stiff, linear, 4 to 7 in. long, 

 4 to 5 lines broad. Mowers (pink ?) 2 to 5, on short pedicels. Bracts short, 

 concave. Sepals and petals I in. long or more. LabeUum rather longer, 

 loosely enveloping the column, spreading and broadly 3-lobed at the top, the 

 middle lobe larger, notched or 2-lobed, with 3 longitudinal veins more or less 

 promiaent. — A. Philippi, Eeichb. fil. in Linnaea, xxv. 227. 



Coinmoii ia Hongkoiig, Champion, and oth^s. On the adjoining continent and npithward 

 to Amoy. 



8. PHAIXJS, Lour. 



Sepals and petals nearly equal, free. LabeUum broad, convolute round the 

 column, entire or 3-lobed, spurred at the base. Column semi-cylindrical. 

 Anther terminal, lid-like. Pollen-masses 8, waxy, nearly equal. — TaR erect 

 herbs with large leaves. Scapes radical, leafless except sheathing scales. 

 Mowers large and showy. 



A small tropical or subtropipal Asiatic genus. 



1. P. grandifolius, Lour.; Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orch. 126. Stems 

 tufted, usually thickened into short tubers or false-bulbs at the base, bearing 



2 or 3 ovate-lanceolate or oblong leaves, often above 1 ft. long, narrowed into 

 a long petiole. Scape 2 or 3 ft. high, bearing a raceme of showy flowers, 

 usually white outside and cinnamon-brown inside; the labellum white, shaded 

 and streaked with crimson. Sepals and petals near 2 in. long. — Bletia Taur 

 kervilke, Br. in Bot, Mag. t. 1924. 



Common by the sides of streams, CAampioti and others, Also on the Chinese continent, 

 and frequently cultivated in gardens. 



9. SPATHOG-LOTTIS, Blume. 



Sepals and petals nearly equal, free, spreading, the petals rather broader. 

 Labellum articulate at the base of the column, not spurred, but concave or 

 saccate, deeply 3-lobed, the middle lobe contracted into a claw, and tubercu- 

 late or cristate. Column winged or petal-like. Anther terminal, lid-like. 

 PoUen-masses 8, waxy.^-Ehizomes underground. Leaves narrow. Scapes 

 radical, leafless. 



A small tropical Asiatic genus. 



1. S. Fortune!) Lmdl. Bot. Beg. 1845, t. 19. Ehizome tuberous. 

 Leaves radical, usually 2 together, Hnear-lanceolate, 6 to 10 in. long. Scapq 

 pubescent, 1 to 2 ft. high, leafless except a few sheathing scales. Flowers 3 

 to 8, yeUow, distant. Bracts short, lanceolate. Perianth-segments \ in. long 

 or rather more. Lateral lobes of the labellum broadly oblong-falcate, middle 

 lobe obovate, emarginate, the broad claw with 2 lateral angles at its base and 

 2 much raised longitudinal plaits above the middle. 



Common in the island, Fortune, Chqmjdon, ancl otherp. Not known from elsewhere, un- 

 less it be but a slight variety of the S. puhescens, Lindl., from Khasia and Silhet. 



10. PACHYSTOMA, Blum,e. 



(Apaluria, Linffl.) 



Sepals and petals erect or slightly spreading, nearly equal, or the petals 



2 A 2 



