2 9 8 OnClIIDS OF THE SIEEIM-HIilALArA.
T]io sepals are green, the petals and Hp being wliite, the latter tinged with yellow
on the sac. This lias the toothless lip-cluw of Zeuxino conjoined with the pseudocaudicular
pollinia and twisted rostelhun so characteristic of Anccctochihs.
PLATK m.-An<rctoc},ihis cfispus, Liixdl. A i.Iaiit, of natural size. Pig. 1 a flower, 2 flomi braot
ovary, colamn aad bnse of Up, 3 tie jietds, 4 npes of ovary, and front oi column showing the two
oontiguoos niitieoiis stigmas (s), 5 interior of the sao of the lip, showing t i e calli in tlie interior. G anther
7 pollinia ; all en Jar god. '
7 . ANCECTOCUILUS TORTUS, King and Pantling.
"Whole plant G or 7 in. high. Stem decumljent at the base, stout, bearing four or five
leaves. Leaves green, 3-uerved, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acute, slightly oblique, narrowed
at the base into the channelled sheathing petiole; length about 2 in., breadth -75 to 1
in.; petiole -Jo in. Peduncle of the raceme pubessent and bearing a solitary acuminate
pubesccnt bract. Spike about 1-5 in. long, 3- to 6-flowered; Jloml h-act lanceolate,
acumnmte, thinly pubescent, equalling the ovary. Flowers -75 in. long. Dorsal
sepal broadly ovate, concave, forming with the petals a hood over the column; the
lateral pair oblong, blunt and spreading, all pubescent outside. Pctah faleatoly rliomboid,
sub-acuminatc. Up with a short siib-globose saccate base, a long toothed claw, and
a much twisted apical lobe deeply divided into two sub-quadrate slightly divergent
irregularly crenate lobules the upper margins of which are conniventj the sac containing
two approximate stout up-turned teeth; the claw with nine unequal teeth on each
margin. Column with two small approximate up-tm-ned teeth below the entii-e anticous
stigma; anns of the rostoUum large, winged, bidentate. Follinia in sub-equal paivs,
united midway into a pseudo-caudicle; the gland small, ovate, lateral. Odontockilus
tortus. King and Pantling in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXV, Pt. 2, 125.
Bhotan, at Kumai near the Jaldacca river, elevation about 4,000 feet; flowerin'^
in December; Pantling No. 35-1. "
The ueai-est ally of this species is undoubtedly 0. Mwesii, Clarke; but that
species has very dark purpio leaves, smaller than those of this and thicker in texture.
0. Elwesii besides has a longer more pubescent peduncle than this which never bears
more than three flowers. Moi-eover the lip of 0. Ekvesii is not, twisted, and its claw
has only seven paii'S of teeth, while the sac of the Hp is bilobed and the column
has large processes. The colour of the sepals and petals of this is green, the Hp being
white and the anther pale brown.
PLATE Z^Q.—Aua^tochUut lortia:. -King and Paatling. A plant, of natural sise. Fig. 1 A flower,
2 profile view of apox of ovary, column with anther in situ, and the saeoate hose of the lip, showing
the poEiniar gland ^¡7) and one of the stigmas s), 3 front view of the column, showing the poUinior
gland {g) and tlie stigma (s), 4 vertical section of the preceding, showing the callus on one side of the
interior of the sao of the lip, 5 petals, G pollinia; all enlarged.
84. C heir 0 Sty] is, BW.
Terrestrial herbs witli stems decumbent and succulent at the base. Leaves membranous.
Flowers few, racemose. Sepals united in their lower half into a ventricose
tube. Petals shorter than the sepals. Lip saccate or cymbiform at the base, the sac
with enclosed calU or set»; the anterior lobe clawed, bilobulate or fimbriate. Column
HEXIEBLA. '2 9 9
short, with two long fleshy appendages in front, rostellum two-cleft. Stupnas two, latetal.
Anther erect, its cells short; pollinia two, bipartite, inserted by a short caudicle on an
oblong gland. Species about 12, Indian and Malayan.
1. CHEIROSTTLIS G-RIFFITHH, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soe. I, 188.
Wholo plant 4 to 7 inches high. Stem succulent, decumbent below, glabrous, bearing
some scarious sheaths. Leaves withered at flowering time, ovate, sub-acute, the bases
cuneate; petioles short, expanding into wide hyaline sheaths; length of blade '75 to 1 in.,
breadth -5 to -G in. Peduncle as long as the stem but more slender, pubescent, and
beajing several loose acuminate scarious sheaths more than "O in. long. Flowers one or
two at the apex of the peduncle, '75 in. long, (excluding the pubescent tumid ovary);
floral hraet lanceolate, acumiuate, shorter or longer than the ovary. Sepals connate to
the middle into a tube, pubesccnt especially towards the base; the free points acute,
spreading. Fctals naiTOwly oblong, falcate, acute, shorter than the sepals. Lip with
an elongate concave base slightly saccate underneath its attachment to the column, the sao
with two parallel rows of short glandular seta3 within it; apical lobe of the lip orbicular,
its edges coarsely fimbriate. Column elongate, with two linear erect processes equal in
length to the spatliulate arms of the rostellum and covering the gland of the pollinia.
Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 103. Goodi/era, No. 9, Griff. Notul. Ill, 393.
Bhotan, on low Mils near the Jaldacca river; elevation 4,000 feet; in flower dui-ing
December; Pantling No. 353.
Khasia Hills; Lobb, Clarke. Burma, in Pegu; Kui'z No. 355; in Tenasserim; Parish.
The flowers are pure white tliroughout.
PL.4TE 397.—CheirosiijHs Grifflthii, Lindl. A plant, 0/ natural «I's«. Fig. 1 a flower, side vim, 2 floral
bract, ovary, column with anther in siiu, lip and stigma (s), scan from the side, 3 lip, upper surface,
4 petals, 5 apex of ovary, column with its processes {cp), one of which is bant down to show its outline,
gland of pollinia (</) and stigma (s), 6 empty anther, 7 pollinia and gland, side view; all sulnrged.
85. Hetssria, Blume.
TeiTcstiial 'herbs with the characters of Goodiiera but the flower everted so that the lip
is superior. Lip adnate to the column. Stigmas two, lateral. Species about 13, Indian.
HETJIRIA RUBENS, Benth. in Bcnth. and Hook, fil. Gen. Plantar. Ill, 603.
Whole plant 10 to 18 in. high, about half being leaf-bearing stem and glabrous;
the rest peduncle, puberulous, and bearing a few scattered lanceolate acimiinate sheaths
with a terminal raceme. Leaves ovate to elliptic, somewhat oblique, sub-acute, 3 to 4 5
in. long and l'7ô to 2 in. broad, 5-nerved. Raceme 3 or 4 in. long, many-flowered,
its lachis densely glandidar-pubescent. Floivers -3 in. long; floral braet lanceolate,
acuminate, shorter than the glandular-tomentose cylindiic ovary. Sepals broadly ovate.
Petals hammer-shaped, clawed, gibbous on one side. Lip short, sub-hemispheric, with
a small transverse, sometimes bifid, temiinal lobe aiid a slightly carunculate callus
on each side towards the base within. Column very short, with two small wings in
fi'ont. Anther ovate-cordate, convex; pollinia clavate, pyriform, longitudinally grooved,
attached by the short thin caudicle to the small sub-quad.ate gland. Hook. fil. Fl.
AMI RUT. BOT. GARD., CALCUTT.V, YOI.. TILL.