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On some New Orchids from Sikkim.—By Gr. King and R. Pantling. 
The publication, in Sir Joseph Hooker’s Flora of British India, of 
his account of the Orchids of the Empire marks an era in the study 
of this most interesting Natural Family. Prior to the issue of Sir 
Joseph’s account of the group, it was extremely difficult to identify 
any Indian orchid that did not happen to have had a figure of itself 
published in some horticultural or botanical work. Now the work 
of determining the name of a species has been made comparatively 
easy ; and the facilities which have thus" been provided have stimu¬ 
lated local research. In the present paper we offer to the Society 
descriptions of thirty-three new species—twenty belongingto the Tribe 
Epidendrece, eight to the Tribe Vandese, three to the Neottiese, two to 
the Ophrydese —which have been discovered in Sikkim within the 
past few years. 
Epidendrese. 
MICROSTYLIS, Nutt. 
Microstylis Maximowicziana, n. spec. Rhizome 2 to 4 in. long, with 
scattered root fibres and bearing a leafy pseudo-bulb 3 or 4 in. 
long. Leaves 4 or 5, elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, acute, tapering to the 
sheathing base, slightly oblique, 5 to 6 in. long. Raceme about 6 in 
long with numerous green flowers nearly ’2 in. in diam., the stalk of the 
raceme 4 to 5 in. long. Floral brads linear-lanceolate, equal to or ex¬ 
ceeding the stalked ovary. Sepals oblong, blunt, their margins re¬ 
curved, the lateral broader than the dorsal. Petals linear, all reflexed, 
the lip hood-shaped; its apex contracted, thickened and slightly 
crenate, and with two minute teeth above the pit; the side lobes sub- 
falcate, blunt. Arms of the column broad, overlapping and hiding 
the anther, the stigma occupying the whole face of the column. Lip 
of anther truncate. 
Sikkim : On the Mungpoo Cinchona Plantation, alt. 2,000 to 4,000 
feet; flowers in July. 
The species is self-fertile. 
OBERONIA, Lindl. 
Oberonia falcata, n. spec. Stems caulescent, tufted, 3 in. long. 
Leaves falcate, acute 1 to 2 in. long, and '25 in. broad. Racemes almost 
sessile, erect, 2 to 3 in. long; the flowers yellowish-green, minute, 
very numerous and sub-verticillate. Flower-brad ovate, erose, equal 
to and sheathing the stalked ovary. Sepals broadly ovate, entire, re¬ 
flexed. Petals linear-oblong, blunt, entire. Lip twice as long as 
