352 



very mucli spreading or vaulted: "lip-imdivided, usually auricled, 

 continuous with the column, hanging down, inappendiculate, convex 

 or concave and constricted in the middle : column dwarf, fleshy, 

 apodous : stigma anticous, circular : beak obtuse, obsolete : pollen 

 masses two, waxy, posticously hollowed out : caudicle broad, short, 

 triang^ar : gland membranaceous, replicate : anther sub-rotwnd, 

 2-ceUed : valvelets barren. — Caulescent, erect epiphytes, rushy : 

 leaves tapering, stiff: flowers small, obscurely green or purplish. 



(1) L, voLTJCais. flAndl.J 

 Idemt. Lindl. fol. orch. 1853. 



Spec. Chae. Spikes very short, .few-flowered: dorsal sepal 

 straight, Hnear, hooded : petals almost three times longer, much 

 spreading, linear, sub-spathulate : Up bi-auricled, with a caudate 

 oblong convex lamina. 



Khasia. The flowers look like little birds with narrow wings or 

 petals. 



(2) L. TEiroiFOLiA. fBlume-.J 



Ident. Blume Museum, 64. — Lindl. orch. 1. c. p. 2. 



Sj/n. Cymbidium tenuifolium, lAndl. gen. and sp. p. 167. — 

 Birchea teretifolia, A. Rich. arm. ««. 1841, t. 10. — Luisia Birchea, 

 I. c. 



Engra/B. Bheede Mai. xii. t. 6. 



Spec. Chah. Petals twice longer than the dorsal sepal : lateral 

 'sepals mucronulate below the apex: lip oblong, 2-eared, convex, 

 3-furrowed, 2-lobed at the apex : sepals and petsSs yellowish green, 

 lip pale green, painted with purple^ 



NeUgherries. Malabar. Khasia. 



(3) L. TBICHOBHIZA. (BlUMe.} 



Ident. Blume Museum, 63. — Lindl. 1. c. 



Syn. Vanda (?) trichorhiza, Sbok. ex. hot. t. 72. Cymbidium 

 triste, Hooher in Bot. Mag. t. 3648. 



Spec. Chae. Eaceme few-flowered : petals a little longer than 

 the dorsal sepal : lateral sepals deeply keeled : lip convex oblong, 

 roimd, 2-eared at the base, interrupted above the base : younger 

 roots pubescent : flowers dull dirty purple, or with white sepals 

 and petals. 



Khasia. NeUgherries. 



