ICO OECHIDS OP THE SIEKIM-HIMALlTA.
as long as iho stalked ovary. Sepals sub-equal, ovate, sub-acute, apiuulata, strongly
recurved (especially tlie laleval pair). Petals abou(. as long as the sepals but much
narrower, -wiJe-sp reí ding, Innceoliitc, blunt; the basal half dilated, membranous and "with
limbriate eilges; the apical half narrow, fleshy. Lij) as long as the sepals, with a
broadiy orbicular cochleate base with naiTow erect rounded eroso side lobes and a
fltshy tnnguc-liko entire blunt apical lobo. Culunm very short. Anther with a fleshy
cap containing twu distant cells. Pollinia 4, ovoid, in two pairs, oaeh pair lying remote
from the other, att:ie'ied to its own caudicle, and resting on its own short rostelluni
overhanging the stigma; the caudicles flattened, dilated upwards, each ending below in
ail ovate gland. SHjma large, transversely oblong, occupying the whole breadth of the
column in its upper half.
Bhutan, near Buxa, at an elevation of aboiit 6,000 feet; Anderson; Pantling's
drawing No. 473.
The sepals and petals of this most interesting little plant are yellowish, and the
lip is purple. Plants of it were collected above Buxa, in Bhutan, by Dr. A. R. S.
Andt-rsou, Surgeon-Naturalist to H. M. S. Investigator, and Officiating Superiutendeut of
tlie India Museum, Calciitta. It has not as yot been found in Sikkim. It is, however,
so small that it may easily enough have escaped observation in the latter province.
We make no apology, however, for introducing it here, as it affords an excellent
example of an lont with unmistakeable glands to the caudiclcs of its pollinia, and
thus strengthens the arguments for the inclusion of tlus genus in the tribe Vandeac.
In this, as in other three of the five species here described, the pollen masses rest
on the caudicles and are not attached to them by gi-anular elastic threads as
directly in the majority of typical Vandme; but in I. scanosa such tlireads are present.
The plant here figured, having been sent by Dr. Anderson, flowered at the Government
Cinchona Plantation at Mungpoo in Sikkim in April 1897; and the di-awing here
reproduced was made there by Mr. Pautling.
Pi-ATK 217.—I'lns Anderson!, Xing and Pautling. A tuft of livÍDg plañís; of natural she. Fig. 1
a flower, 2 floral bract, ovary, column wltli anther in situ aad lip in pro61e, 3 and 4 column showing
tlio two pairs ol pollinia in silit with tkeir caudicles and glands, and also the stigma, 5 the petals, 6
p o l l i u i a ; all enlarged.
4. JONE INTERMEDIA, King and Pantling in Joum. As. See. Bengal, Vol. LXV,
Part 2, p. 120.
Hhizome less than •! in. thick, naked; pscudo-hulhs ovoid, semi-transparent, -5 in.
long, less than -1 in. apart. Leaf linear, notched at the apex, slightly narrowed to
the sessile base, 2 to 4 in. long, and '2 to -So in. broad. Scape only slightly longer
than the pseudo-bulb, zig-zagged, enveloped at the base by two or tlu-ee sheaths and
bearing one or two flowers ; floral bract lanceolate, equal to or longer than the shortlystalked
ovary. Floivers -5 in. across, pale green. Sepals spreading, sub-equal, lanceolate,
the lateral pair lying under the lip and coherent by their tips. Pelais about half as long
as the sepals, spreading, more or less twisted, linear, with dilated more or less denticulate
concave bases. Lip slightly shorter tlian the sepals, lanceolate, with a dilated
concave slightly am-iculate base, and much elongato caudatc-acuminafco apex ; the base
with a very broad tmncate claw attaching it to the very short foot of the column.
Column shoit, Iroad, nan-owly winged at the middle; rostelhm broad, deflexcdj pollinis
lO.NE. IC l
4, elliptic, equal, attached by pairs to elongate caudicles, the ends of which are attached
to a viscid disc continuous with the stigma.
Sikkim, at Tendong, elevation about 6,000 feet; Pantling, No. 101.
A very remarkable species, the structure of the rostcllmu and pollinia of wliich are
discussed in a noto on page 156.
PLATE 218.—lone intermedia, Eing and Pantling. A plant; of natural sizo. Fig. 1 a flower, front
view, 3 bract, stalked ovary, column and lip, seen from the side, 3 the j>6tiil3, 4 lip, 5 front view
of the oolumn sliowing ilie curtain-like rostollum aud the pollinia with their caudicles in sila aud viscid
disc, C the polliuia and viscid disc rtmaved; all enlarged.
5 . JOSE SCAEIOSA, King and Pantling.
Pseudo-bulk ovoid or obliquely ovoid, of spongy consistence, -75 to 1-25 in. long,
attached about an inch apart to a stout striate rhizome. Leaf coriaceous, narrowly
oblong, on a short channelled petiole, the apes blunt aud notched, slightly narrowed
to the base; length 4 to 6 in., breadth -63 to 1 in. Scape slender, erect, two or three
times as long as the leaf ; the peduncle with tlu-ee or four scattered tubular truncate
sheaths -5 to -75 in. long. Saceme deflexed, about half the length of the peduncle, its
rachis compressed. Flowers numerous, rattier distant, about -3 in. long, distichous; braci
very large, striate, scarious at flowering-time, ovate, cymbiform, acute, partly concealing
the flower and entirely concealing the dorsal sepal Sepals unequal, the dorsal ovate?
concave, blunt; the lateral pair longer, oblong, acute, slightly incurved, and lying
nearly ])arallel on the under-surface of the lip. Petals one-third as long as the lateral
sepals, very broad, blunt, sub-retuse, the margins erose-deuticulate, the bases broad and
truncate. Lip fleshy, sessile on the base of the column, shorter than the lateral sepals,
ovate-elliptic, blunt, without side lobes; the upper surface concave in ics lower half and
with a small obloug callus at the base immediately under the column. Column very
short, without a fout. Anther sub-erect, sessile ; its cells distant, dehiscing vertically.
Pollinia 4, in two pairs, connectod by elastic tl.reads to two rather lai-ge oblong caudicles
inserted by their lower ends on a single sub-quadrate adhesive gland bifid at each end
and curved along the centro. Stigma large, orbicular, with the gland of the polliida
hanging in front of its centre. Smipia scariosa, Lindi, in Wall. Cat., No. 7373- Gen.
and Spec. Orch., 179; Orchid Seel., 25; Sert. Orchid., Frontisp., No. 8; Fol. Orch. 1-
Reichb. fil. in Walp. Ann. VI, 633; Hook. fll. Fl Br. Ind. V, 772 Omitktdium
b,actcatum, Wall. IISS.
Sikkim, elevation 3,600 to 4,000 feet; not now common; Gamble, No. 10336-
Pant'iug, No. 474 ; in flower during April and May. Nepal, Bhutan, Khasia, Tenasserim.
The flowdrs are greenish, flushed with dull purple.
Careful dissections of fresh flo wers of all the Sikkim species attributed by Lindley
to the genus lone (1853) and of those of the single species of the genus Sanipia,
(which Lindley attributes to Buchanan-Hamilton and which therefore must date prior to
1816), show that the flowers of the two have practically the same structure, and that one
of these genera must fall. In reducing one the older would naturally be upheld. But
wo find it impossible to discover what Buchanan-Hamilton's Sunipia was. He never
published any description of it, and no »specimen bearing the name Sunipia in his bandwiiting
is now extant. The earliest reference to Sunipia which we liavo been able to
ANN. EOY. BOT. GABB., CALCXITTA, VOL. VIH.