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1895.] Gr. King & R. Pantling — New Orchids from Sikkim, 
and wider-spreading than the dorsal, and keeled. Petals linear, trun¬ 
cate, shorter than the sepals, entire, pale yellow and transparent 
like the sepals. Lip reddish brown, with broad re ni for m base having 
a lateral sinus and a short convergent horn at each side at its anterior 
end : the apical lobe broadly oblong, deeply bifid, the lobes lanceolate 
and slightly convergent, and the sinus narrow, not triangular and with 
a concave emarginate apex. Stigma concave. 
Bhotan: at G-uru-bathan, at an elevation of about 1,500 feet; in 
flower in February. 
A very distinct species. 
Oberonia lobulata, n. spec. Acaulescent, not tufted. Leaves 
about four, large, oblong, sub-acute, 1‘25 to 3 in. long, and *4 to *5 in. 
broad. Raceme 4 in. long, on a winged ebracteate peduncle about 
half as long, much decurved. Flowers distant, minute, green. Bracts 
broadly oblong, the apex convex and minutely erose equalling and 
sheathing the sessile ovary. Sepals ovate, acute, entire, reflexed; 
the petals similar but narrower. Lip broadly triangular with irregu¬ 
larly erose margins, the apex with a broad shallow sinus and two short 
blunt lobes. Stigma convex ? 
Sikkim : in the valley of the Teesta, at an elevation of about 1,000 
feet; in flower in October. 
Collected only once. A remarkable species with the pollinia en¬ 
cased within the anther cells and not free as is usually the case in the 
genus Oberonia. 
Oberonia Prainiana, n. spec. Acaulescent, and slightly tufted 
Leaves very fleshy, falcate, sub-acute, ’5 to ’75 in. long, and '25 in 
broad. Raceme slender, many times longer than the leaves, erect, 4 in. 
long: stalk of the raceme attached to the uppermost leaf, minutely 
bracteolate, filiform, about 1 in. long. Flowers of a warm brown colour, 
verticillate, very minute. Bract oblong, sub-entire, equal to and em¬ 
bracing the stout sessile ovary. Sepals oblong, blunt, all much re¬ 
volute. Petals elliptic-lanceolate, spreading, deeply serrate. Lip tri¬ 
angular-oblong with a circular nectar-bearing pit near its base and 
under the column, the apex blunt, the margins deeply erose-dentate. 
Pollinia 2 pairs, orange-coloured. 
Sikkim: in the Teesta Valley, at an elevation of about 1,000 feet; 
in flower in July. 
A very distinct species remarkable or the great length of the 
slender inflorescence in proportion to the leaves, and for its unlobed but 
deeply erose dentate lip. 
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