OICHIDS OP THE SIEKllI.HfaX.\.L.i.YA.
Sikldm, at elevations of 2,000 to 4,000 feet; Wallich Hooker filiua and T. Thomson;
Pantling No. 121; in flower during April and May. Khasia Hills ; Hooker fiUiis.
'Die flowers are of a dull white saffusod and blotched with yellow; the apices of
the sepals are purplo and the upper lialves of the petils arc spotted with purple and
yoliow. The apex of the lip and the ridges oa the disc are yellow. The ripe capsule is
c f a fine purple colour.
^ o y . / . i i ^ .I auylhc^tensir., .L'l.i dl ii. plant; of naiaral sisi. Fig. 1 t!i9 petaU, 2
part of ovary, column witli its foot and the lip, seea from the siie, 3 lip, 4 ouluma aud foot,
auther in silu and base of lip, 5 empty anther, 6 pollinia; enlargsd.
2. AAUIRNKPHIPPIUM STUIATUU, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1838, Misc., 45.
Psewh-bttlbs elongate-obpyriform, 3 or 4 in. long, and 1-5 in. in diara. at the base,
clothed near the top with long brown fimbriate membranous sheaths aud tapering into
cylindric stems 4 or 5 in. long. Leavis elliptic, shortly acuminate or acute, tapering at
the base iato the short petiole; length 8 to 12 in., breadth 2-5 to 4-5 in. Racom fewflowered,
on a stout pedmiole 3 or 4 in. long enveloped in long imbricate green sheaths
often tipped and striped with red. Flowers 1-25 in. long and about '63 in. in diam.;
fioral hract large, cymbiform, membranous, shorter than the stalked ovary. Septls broadly
oblong, cohering; the lateral pan broad, cohering to form an elongate conical meatum.
Petals quite concealed by the sepals, dimidiate-oblong, their tips not proti-ading. Lip a
little longer than the column, concealed by the sepals, oblong, with lai-ge lataral onthe
much incurved lobes and a small triangular terminal lobe with undulate edges; the uppar
sm-face without any calli or lamell?e, but with a single thickened ridge down the
middle. Column, short, with a long straight foot suddenly pouched and curved at the
extremity. Antkcr 2-celIed, its apex conical. PoUinia 8. Hook. 61. Pi. Br. Ind. V 81tjin
Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc. V, pt. I, 22, t. 33; Reichb. fli. in Walp. Ann. VI, 460. '
Sikkim, at elevations of 1,800 to 3,000 feet. Griflith (Kew Distiib. No. 5208");
Pantling No. 269; in flower doling July and August. Nepal. Khasia Hills; C. B.
Clarke.
The flowers
with yellow,
pale pink with bold red lines, the mentum and Up being tinged
PLATE !')').—AcnnthepMppium stri/rtam, Lindl. A plant; of mtural size. Fig. 1 the petals, 2 apex
oE ovary, column with its foot, anther in siiii ani lip, seen fi-om the side, 3 lip, 4 colamn, foot,
anther in sitit, apes of nisntum and base of lip, from, the siie, 5 empty anther, lower surface, 6
poUinia; all enlarged,
17. Arundina, Blume.
Terrestrial, with tall rood-like stems. Zeaves numerous, membranous, distichous,
narrow. Flomrs large, rose-coloured, in erect terminal panicles or racemes. Sepals free,
sub-equal, spreading. Petals broader and shorter, spreading. Lip large, cuculkto,
convolute at the base and embracing the column; the mouth large, 2-lobed at the apex.
Colvmu long, slender, narrowly winged, foot none. Anther-oells 4; poUinia 8, in two
superposed unequal rows attached by fours to one membrane. Species eight or ten;
Indian, Malayan and Chinese.
ARUUDINA BAMBUSIFOUA, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 87.01; Gen. and Spec.
Orch., 12-5.
Stem stout, woody, crect, reed-like, often about 1 in. in diameter at the base, 4 to
7 feet high. Leaves membranous, narrowly oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, not tapering at
the sheathing base, 8 to 12 in. long, and •75 to 1 in. broad. Panicle few-branched,
lax, with broad acute stout keeled persistent hracts; the flowers few and at the terminations
of the branchlets, 3 in. across vertically. Sepals free, spreading, sub-equal; the
dorsal erect, oblong, acute; the lateral pair lying parallel behind the lip, lanceolate,
3 nerved. Petals rhomboid-elliptic, acute, spreading, shorter and broader than the sepals.
Lip cucullatR, its base convolute rouud the column; the mouth large, expanded, subquadrate,
the basal lobes with recurved edges, tho anterior corrugated; the apex broad
and irregularly toothed, deeply bifid and with a very narrow sinus between the lobules,
the di.sc with threo lamella). Column long, slender, naiTowly winged. Antker-celk 4.
PoUinia 8, very unequal, in two rows, those of the upper row much longer than those
of tho lower, cohering in fours to one membrane. Lindl. in Bot. Beg. XXVII, Misc. 2-,
in Journ. Lina. Soo. Ill, 22; Wight Ic. 1061; Griff. Notul. HI, 329, 331; Ic. Fl.
Asiat., t. 514; "Walp. Ann. VI, 457; Hook. til. Fl. Br. Ind. V, 857. Ci/mUdium
bambusifolium, Roxb. Hort. Beng., 63 ; Roxb. FI. Ind. III, 460. Blctia (jraminifolia, Don
Prodr. 29. Limodorum graminifolium, Ham. MSS.
Sikkim, from the base of the range to 3,000 feet, rather common; flowering from
April to September. Pantling No. 17. Distributed westwards to Nepal and eastwards
to Assam, the Khasia Hills, Manipiu-, Chittagong, and Upper Burma; also in the Nilgiri
aud Anamali Hanges in Southern India.
The sepals aud petals are of a pale pinkish-purple; the lip of a most brilliant
rosy-purple, which we have failed to imitate in our figui-e. Tho lamolte of the disc
aie composed of two long lateral ones reaching to the sinus on the terminal lobe and
having two crimson hooks at their bases, and of a short mesial one.
PLATE 15^.—Anindina bambusifolia Lindl. Part of a panicle and of a leafy stem. Fig. 1 the
base of the lip, the convolute sides haviug been cut away so as to show the lamcUie of the disc,
2 column with the anther in situ, 3 inner surfaco of anther, 4 poUinia; all enlaryüd.
18. Porpax, Lindl.
Small epiphytes with much depressed sub-discoid pssudo-bulbs clothod with reticulate
sheaths. Loaves two, meuibranous, caducous. Flowers one to three, sub sessile on the apex
of the pseudo-bulb. Sepals connaie into a tube; the lateral pair oblique at the base and
adnato to the long-produced fuot of the column. Petals small, free, included (except
the tips in one species} in the sepaliiie tube. Column short, wingless, its foot lono-er
than itself. PoUinia 8, unequal, attached by fom'S to a very short granular membrane.
Uistrib,; six species all Indian.
A small but very nntui-al genus allied to Eria, but distinguished from that by its connate sepal»
which form a tube in which the petals are most entirely iucluded; distinguished also by its small
size aud by its cuiicus flattened reticulate pseudo-bulbs. It was founded by Lindley in 1845.
Edges of lip laciuiate, anther tubereulate, flowers pubescent
Edges of lip entire, aitlior smooth, flowers glabrous . . .
. BOY. BOT. G.WD., C.
P. fihuUformü.
P. Meirax.