104 OECHIDS OP THE SIKKIM-HIMALArA.
tase. Floiocr about 1 in. long; tliQ Iraot linear, about one-third of tlio length of tLe
stalked ovary. So-paU and petals snb-eqiml, lanceolate, acuminate. Lip oblong, with a
short, bluiit, ciTi'ved spui-, ratiier large blunt incurved side lobes, and a dilated sub-rcnitorni
apox apiculate iu the centre; upper surface of the middle of the lip with three ridges
which, beginning at the base as lines, pass into converging lamcllfe towards the apes;
spur blunt, incuiTcd, exceeding the sepals by -12 in. Column narrowly wmged h-om
base to apex. Anther with two purple bosses.
Sikkim, in tropical valleys, ascending to elevations of 3,500 feet, in flower in
Mai'ch; Pantling No. 204.
The colour of the sepals and petals is greenish with brown lines; the lip is white,
and its lanielte arc yellow, spotted with pink. The anther is phik and its bosses aré
dark red. The species is near to T. viriliftma. -We have dedicated it to Sir Josei>h
Ilooker.
P l a t e m . Tainia Eooheriana, Eiug and Pnntling. Pseudo-buUis, floivering-soape and leaf. Fic 1
sépala and petals separated, of mtuml size, 2 apes of ovary, column, autlier and lip, seen from °the
Bide, 3 lip, 4 column and antber, 5 front of anther, S pollinia, 7 tha same, side view; all enlarged.
14. Nephelaphyllum, Blume.
Tcn-estrial creeping herbs with succulent stems or pseudo-bulbs, and a few subcoriaceous,
petiolate, often eoloui-cd, ovate or cordate leaves. Scapes sheathed, flowers in
racemes. Scjmh free, nan-ow, spreading or recurved. Feials narrow. Lip sessile on the
base of the column (attached to its foot ia gvandijlorum), usually shortly spurred.
Cohmn with winged edges. Anther 2-celled. Pollinia 8, unequal, adnate to a lioeaimembrane.
Spccies seven; Indian, Malayan aud Chinese.
Column with a long foot, flowers witb t I. N. grandijlorum.
Column without a foot; flowers witli no mentum, but with :
short stout Bpur.
L i p broadly oblong, without lobes
Lip elongate-cuneate, 3-lobed
JV. pulchnm, var,
Si/¡kill ten sis.
coriifoliwn.
1. NEPCELAPnYLLUii GEÁNDIFLOEÜM, Ilook. fil. Fl. ]3r. Ind. VI, 192; in Ann.
Bot. Gard. Calc. V, pt. 1, 23, t. 34.
Pseudo-hiilhs about 3 in. long, narrowly fusiform, touching by their bases, half covered
by a membranous sheath and bearing at the apex a rather thick ovate-elliptic, acute,
7- to y-nerved leaf, cordate at tlie base, 4 or 5 in. long, and 2-5 to 3 in. broad, the
petiole undistinguishable from the pseudo-bulb. Scajie with raccme much longer than
the leaves, erect, slender; its peduncle with two sheaths 1 to 1-5 in. in length, one at
the base and one about the middle; the raceme .sparsely 6- to 10-flowcred. Flowers 1
in. long; the Iract liuear-lauceolate, much shorter than the stalked ovary. Dorsal sepal
lanceolate; the lateral paii- larger, falcate and with broad bases. Fetuls as long as,
but broader than, the dorsal sepal, acute, D-nerved like the sepals. Lip sub-pandiuiform
when flattened out; the side lobes large, rounded, erect; the terminal lobe triangular,
acute, deflcxed; the upper surface with a thickened mesial line and two lateral undulate
laincllie running from the base nearly to the apex. Mentani conical. Cohmn and its foot
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sub-equal, Antkir dilated, compressed and 2-lobed at the apex, lateral margins of the
cliiiandrium erosc. Pollinia 8, unequal, oae set of four- much longer than the other set,
all attached to a single membrane.
>Sikkim, iutho valley of the Teesta, at elevations of 1,000 to 1,500 feet; Pantling
No. 20G; in flower during March. Distrib. Perak.
The sepals and petals are of a pale gi-cenish-brown colour, with dark brown nerves,
the lip is white with small pink spots and a large blotch of pink at the apex. The
lip has also a yellow blotch at the base, the mentum and column are yellow, i'he
pseudo-bulbs and leaves are of a uniform gi-een colour.
Plate I'^'^.—Nephclaiihyllum grandifionm, Hook, fil, A plant; of natural size. Fig. 1 sepals and
petals separated from eaeb other, 2 floral bract, stalked ovary, column -witk its foot, and the lip seen
from the side, 3 lip, 4 upper part of the column with the anther in situ, 5 tbo same with the aother
removed so as to ehow the eroae edges of the elinandrium, 6 pollinia; all enlarged.
3. Nephelaphyllum pulcheuji, Blume (Bijdr. 372, t. 32) var. SUckimensis,
Hook, fil, PI. Br. Ind., V, 819.
Pseiidu-lulbs 1 to 1'5 in. long, ai-ranged in a chain, ovoid-cylindric, with large
membranous siieaths when young, each bearing at the apex a broadly ovate-lanceolate,
5- or 6-nerved, rather thick blade deeply cordate at the base; length 3 to 4 in., breadth
1-75 to 2-5 in., petiole '5 to 1 in. Scape from the base of the pseudo-bulb, sheathed,
3 or 4 in. long, bearing at its apex a few-flowered short raceme. Flowers "65 to "75 in.
long; floral Iruet ovate-lanceolate, shorter than the shortly stalked ovary. Sepals and
'petals sub-equal, linear-obiong, acute, reilexed on the ovary. Lip almost flat, adpressed
to the ciduiun, broadly oblong, without lobes, the apex broad anJ emarginate, the edges
minutely crenulate; the upper surface with a broad thickened pubescent mesial band
passmg near the apex into 3 toothed ridges, the entrance to the bilobed spur at the
base clothed with long hairs. Column without a foot, its sides narrowly winged from
base to apex, the wings creuulate opposite the stigma. Anther short, broad and with
two short horns. Folhnia 8, very unequal, the four smaller only one third of the size
of the four larger.
Bhutan; Griffith (Kew Distrib. No, 5370); at Guru Bathan, elevation 1,500 feet;
in flower during Juno; Pantling No. 216.
The pseudo-bulbs and under surfucos of the leaves are purple, while the upper
surfaces have a metallic lustre and are green, ilashed and mottled with purple; the
sepals, petals, ovary and (in part also) the base of the lip are red, the anterior portion
of the lip and its spur being yellow. The typical form of this is found in the
Malayan countries. As described aud figured by Bhimo (Orch. Archipol. Ind. 171, t. 61,
p. 1), it.5 pseudo-bulbs are quite cylindric, not having bulbous bases as in the vaiiety
Sikldmensis. The flowers are also paler in colom- aud slightly larger in size. The
synonymy of the typical form is as follows:—N. pulahrum, Blume Bijdr. 372, t. 32;
Orch. Archipel. Ind. 171, t. 61, p. 1; Lindl. Gen. and Spec. Orch. 24; Reiohb. fil. Xen.
Orchid. 1, 216, t. 88, p. 1; Bot. Mag. t, 5332.
P l a t e 145.-iV>i)
Fig. 1 a flower seea from the front, showing the
Sikkimmsia, Hook. fll. A plant; of nalurnl sise.
sepals and petals and the lip partly hidden
by tha column, 2 Hp, 3 bract, stalked ovary, winged column and saccate spur of lip, with the anther i
situ, 4 anther, 5 pollinia; all enlarged.
Ann. Roy. Bot. Gakd., Calcutta, Yol. YIII.