244 0ECHID8 OF THE SIKKIM-HIMALATA.
Iloxb. Fl. lud. in, 473. OrnithochiUs striahclus, Herb. Cale. Tíerixspermum teres, Reichb.
fil. Xcu. Orcli. II, 121, 123 {ezcludinj all i/ia synonyms except those given above).
Sikkim, in tropical valleys at low elevations; Pantliug No. 286. Cbittagong and
Teuasserim.
The sepals and petals of this are yellow with brown spots; tbe lip is also yellow
at the base, but its upper surface is white and its tip dark-pnrple. The flowers aro
Bweet-gcented. The racemes appear to lengthen and to produce flowers at diflerent periods
duiing the year. The individual flowers live, however, only a single day. This is one
of the plants included in the genus Sarcochiliis as enlarged by Mi-. Bcutham. But, as its
h p is a spm--like body with a narrow cavity throughout its whole length, and bearing
at the mouth minute side lobes, we do not think it ought to be reduced to a genus
which its author characterised as having a lip with very large side lobes and no spur.
We do not find auy other genus into wJiich it can justly be reduced, and we therefore
venture to resuscitate for it that originally formed for it by Lindley.
According to another view of the morphology of the flower of tliis plant, the
whole lip consists of a spm- jointed to the foot of the column, and mobile. On this
view t)ic lip has a narrow cavity extending its whole length and dilated at the apex.
I3ut, on neither view is the hp like that of SarcocUlus, as Robert Brown (its founder)
understood that genus.
PLATE Z2Z.—0rHÌtkarium sfriaMum, Lindi. A plant, of natura! sise. Fig. 1 the sepals and petals
separated, 2 lip, froni vkw, 3 vertical section of lip, 4 floral bract, stalked ovary, column, its foot,
anther in situ, and lip, side view, 5 column and its foot and anther, /roni vteio, 6 under sui'faee of anther,
7 poi Unía; all enlarged.
58. Tseniophyllum, Blume.
Small stemless epiphytes, leafless when flowering, pseudo-bulb none ; roots large, flat,
greenish. Leaves lineai-, few, or absent. Scape short, filiform, simple, bearing a few
minute flowers in a spike. Sepals and petals sub-ec^ual, spreading, fi-ee or connate at the
base, the lateral sepals sometimes attached to the hp. Lip adnate to the base of the
column, conspicuously saccate or spurred, side lobes short or absent ; mid-lobc fleshy,
broad and shoi-t, or elongated and naiTow. Column short, thick. Antlter 2-celled; poUinia
four, more or less broadly ovoid, attached in pairs by a caudicle to a gland. Species
jibout 15; Indian, Malayan and Australasian.
Apex of lip with a recurved spike-like process 1. T. retro-spieulaium.
Apes of lip' broad, obtuse S. T. crepidiforme.
1. TáiNiorUYLLUM EETR0-SP1CULATÜM, King and Pantìing.
Leafless; the roots large, numerous and flat. Scape about '75 in. long, bearing at
its apex one or two minutely bracteolate flowers '2 in. long. Sepals and petah sub-equal,
linear-lanceolate, wide-spreading, the lateral sepals inserted on the sides of the Hp. Lip
linear-lanceolate, with a globose spur at the base, the apex -with a retrorse tooth, the
base Bub-gibbous, side lobes none, the mouth of the spur contracted. Column very short.
PolUnia fom-, broadly elliptic; the caudicle short, dilated below the pollinia, the gland
ovate. Sarcochihis retro-spiczihius, King and Pantìing in Joum. As. Soc. Beng., Vol.
LXIY, Pt 2, 340.
PODOCHILUS. 2 4 5
Sikkim, at elevations of about 5,000 feet; flowering in June; PantHng No. 165.
A very inconspicuous species, remarkable for the cunous retroflexed apical spicule-
Hke appendage of the hp. The flowers open singly, they are green in colour.
PLATE 324.—Tmiophjlhm retro-spiculatum, King and Pantling. A plant growing on a tree-branch,
of natural size. Fig. 1 a flower, 8 side view of apes of ovarj, column and lip, 3 lip with its spur, front
titw, 4 and 5 author as seen from above and from below, 6 pollinia; all enlarged.
2. T^NiOPiriLLUJi OEEPIDIFOKME, King and Pantling.
A minute leafless plant with comparatively largo spreading roots. Raceme erect, "So
in. long. Flowers '15 in. long, distichous, opening singly; hract ovate, miuute. Sepals
sub-equal, ovate, bluut, concave, incurved; the lateral pair attached to the sides of the
column. Petals shorter than the sepals, lanceolate. Lip sessile on the column, forming
a roundish cup with entire edges; spur dilated, horizontal, pilose just inside its mouth,
about as long as the lip. Column very short. AntJuir thin, with a slightly deflexed fleshy
lip. PoUinia four, broadly ovoid, attached by pairs to a single thread-like caudicle;
gland ovate. Ovary long, s u b - s e s s i l e ; 1 in. long, cyUndric. Sarcochihis crepidiformis,
King md Pantling in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, Vol. LXIV, Pt. 2, 340.
Sikkim, in tropical valleys; flowering in September; PantHng No. 193.
The sepals and petals of this curious little plant are greenish, tlie lip is white, and
the stigma has purple margins. It is named from the resemblance of the combined lip
and spur to a shpper or last,
PLATE 325.—Taniopkyllum crepidiforme, King and Pantling. A plant growing on a branch of a
tree, of natural sis!. Fig. 1 bract, ovary and flower, 2 part of ovary, column and lip, side view, 3 Hp
and portion of spur, 4 column and apos of ovary, anther (a), rostellum (r), stigma (s), 5 anther, lower
surface, G pollinia; all enlarged.
59. Podochilus, Blume.
Stems tufted, usually slender, erect or diffuse. Leaves numerous, uniform, flat; or
equitant and laterally compressed. Inflorescence terminal or leaf-opposed. Flowers minute,
spicate or racemose, bracts persistent. Sepals and petals connivent or erecto-patent;
the lateral sepals united at the base to form a wide sac or false mentum. Lip clawed,
jointed to the produced foot of the column, sometimes with long basal lobes, 'mobile.
Column very short; rostellum terminal, triangular, erect, bifid. Anther dorsal; pollinia
four, in two paii's; each paii- enclosed in a funnel-shaped cup attached to a short free
caudicle, the caudicles inserted on a single small or large gland. Species about 12,
Indo-JIalayan.
Leaves equitant, apes of iip bifid 1. P. cuUratus.
Loaves not eq_uitant, apes of Hp entire, acute 2. P. khasianitt,
I. PODOCDILUS CULTRATUS, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7336.
Stems G in. long, clothed throughout with equitant flattened falcately lanceolate
acute leaves -65 iu. long and -25 in. broad. Raceme slender, terminal, about -5 in.
long, 2- to 4-flowered, often producing pne or two roots at the base. Flowers -2 in.
long; floral had broadly ovate, cuspidate, about equal in length to the sessile ovary