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98 OECHIDS OF THE SIEEIM-HIMALATA.
The sepals and petals are grcon, minutely spotted -w-itli brown ; the Hp is white
with a yellow spot at its baso and reddish spots on the edges of the side and apical
lobes; the column is yellow with a white blotch.
P l a t e 135—Chrysoglussum crynticum. Hoot. ill. A plant; of natural sisi. Fig. 1 the sepals
ami petals, detached, 2 OTary and column, showiuif its short spui- and the lip, side ticw, 3 lip, 4 tlie
base of the lip, showing the yellow auricles, 5 oijlumn with the anther in situ, 6 anther, 7 pollinia;
nil MiUirgud.
10. Diglyphosa, Bkme.
Terrestrial with creeping' rhizomo and long narrow pseudo-bulbs, each bearing a
solitary, membranous, elliptic, plicate, petiolate leaf. Scape lateral near the base of tlie
pseudo-bulb, erect; the raceme many- and dciisely-fiowered, with a thick rachis. Sepah
broadly lanceolate, the lateral pair and the peiaJs falcate. Lip jointed to the foot of
(he column, mobile, oblong, bilameUato from base to apex, with obscure basal but no
lateral lobes; the apical lobo narrow. Column with a foot half as long as itself, but
without lateral wings or auricles. Anther with two projecting triangular wings; ¡^olUnia
2, elliptic, slightly obovate, sometimes attached to a small mass of adliesire matter.
Distrib. two species, one Malayan and one British Indian.
A genus closely allied to Chrjjaoglo^mm, but differing from it in the column having rather a
long foot, but neither wings nor aurioles; in tiie pollÍLÍa heiug elliptic and slightly clávate (instead
of sub-globular or unequally 4-8Íded); la tha petals and sepals being much broader; in tlie lip being
wilbout basal or side lobes; and in tbe raoema being many- and densely-Eowered, and having a thick
raebis and large persistent ooloiu-ed Tjroots, The genus w.is first founded by Blume in bis Bijdragen
(p. 836 t. 6Ü), The same author agaiu described aud figured in his Flora Javto (Orchid. 138, t. 60)
the only species knowa to him {B. hiifolia). In the tost of the Flora JaTce, Blume chnnged tbe name
of the gonus to Diglyphk, retíúuing fcbat oE D¡gly¡)hosa in bis figure. The older name must of course
Bland.
Diglyphosa MACROPnTLLA, King and Pantling.
Pscudo-hulb sub-cylindric, broadly elliptic, thin, 6 in. long. Leaf plaited, slightly
narrowed at base and apex, 15 in. long and 7 in, broad; its petiole 8 in. long.
Raceme about 6 iu. long, many-flowered, its stalk about 12 in. long, sparsely bracteolate.
Floiver -5 in. across; the oraries '5 in. long; Iract lanceolate, reflexed, shorter
than the stalked ovary. Sepals sub-equal, the dorsal lanccolate, the laterals falcate.
Petals slightly broader than the sepals, falcate. Lip contracted into a claw at the
base, mobile, oblong, abruptly decurved from the obscure rounded basal lobes, the
apex minutely emarginate and decurved; upper surfaco witli two bold longitudinal
minutely hispid lamellffi running from the base to neai-ly the apex where they unite,
Menitim -aonQ. Anther with two projecting triangular wings. Pollinia 2, attached to a
small viseus. Chrysoghsmn macrophjllum, King and Pantling, in Journ. As. Soc.
Bengal, Vol. XLIV, pt. 2, 335.
Sikkim; in the Chel valley, at an elevation of 4,001) feet; in flower in May;
I'antling, No. 315.
The colour of the flowers is golden-browa. throughout, that of the scape and rachis
is purple. The flowers have an unpleasant smell. The only other species of the
EPIDENDEEAE.
geouB is I>. hiifoUa, Bl., of which the flowci-s are yellowish, tinged with purple, the
floral bracts being of a dull brownish-grey colour.
P l ^ t e m.^Dighjphosa ,mmph.jlk. King and Pantling. Pseudo-bulb, part of a stem and of a
peduncle and an entire raoemo ; of natural .izc. Fig. 1 sketch of nn entire plant, vmch redmd ,n
i , flower, 3 floral bract, stalked ovary, column and lip, side mw, 4 lip, 5 column with its foot and
author iu silu, 6 anther, iide and froitl view, 7 pollinia; all enlarged.
Tribe ll.-EPIDENDREAE.
PolKnia 4 or 8, waxy, attached by their bases or by theii- backs to a single or
double granular or translucent appendage, but without any gland derived from the
stigma.
Terrestrial, witb or without pseudo-bulbs, leaves membranous, plicate;
inaoiesoenco axillary or scapiform; lip lamella.te, 3-lobed, column
long, pollinia 8.
Leaves linear from a slender psiiido-stem ; in florescence racemose,
the peduncle long and slender, column without o foot, lip
never spui'red (saccate in Pachffstoma).
Lip sessile, wilb. horizontal lamolltD, not saccate; column
hooded, nearly straight, leaves and flowers coatemporanecus
Lip sessile, saccate at, the base, lamelte ridge-like and
carunculato ; column dilated towards tbe apes, but not
hooded, leaves boC contempowineous with tbe flowers .
Leaves elliptic, ovate or cordate, solitary from a pseudo-bulb or
lateral from a stem, petiolato or sub - sessile; inflorescence
scapiform or terminal from a stem; columu with or without a
foot, sometimes spurred.
Sepals and petals sub-equal, all free.
Lateral sepals inserted on tbe sbort foot of the column;
lip not convolute, rarely spurred; pseudo-bulbs
1-leaved; leaves elongate, long-petioled . . . .
Lateral sepals inserted on tbe long foot of tbe column
and forming with it a meutum, or column without
foot and lip spurred; pseudo-biilbs when present,
l-leaved; leaves ovate or cordate, sub-sessUe . . .
Lateral sepals inserted on the base of the footless
column; Hp spurred, Convolute above tbe column,
tbe mouth large and with undulate edges; pseudobulb
with a many-leaved short pseudo-stem; leaves
Sepals cohering into a ventrioose tube, their apices only
freo. Petals free, included except their apices; foot of
column very long and bent at a rlgbfc angle; tbe lip
11. SpaíhogMíis.
U. NepMaphyllam
16. AeaHthe/'hippium.
TeiTeatrial, with tall reed-like manyleaved stems and no pseudo-bulbs;
infloreswnce terminal, paniokd; hp sessile, not spurred, its base
convolute and embracing tbe column; pollinia 8, unequal . . . . 27,
Ann. Eos. Box. Gaed., CAi.cuTrA, Yol. VIH.