P l a t e 111. Enlophia obtusa Hook. f.—Entire plant, reduced to Portion of
flowering stem,—of natural sise. Fig. 1, single flower; 2, ditto, with sepals and petals
removed; 3, lip, spread out ; 4, column; 5, anther, front and side views; 6, pollinia, front
a7id hack viem ;—all enlarged.
14. Geodoriun Jackson.
Terreetriai herbs with underground subglobose rhizomes. Leaves elliptic, plicate,
their sheaths foraiing a pseudo-stem. Scape from the base of the pseudo-stem, stout,
erect, sheathed, beaiing a deourred corymbose raceme, Fhwers rather crowded and
w, about 15 mm. long. Sepals equal, oblong, subacute, erect. Petals as long as the
, but broader and blunt. .sessile on the base of the column, broadly ventricose
at the callus-bearing base, without side lobes; apex broad, rounded bifid or ernarginate.
Column shorter than the lip. Anther broad, 3-celled ; pollinia 2, broadly and
dimidiately ovoid, attached by a slender tapering caudicle to a small orbicular gland.—
Species about 10 ; Indian, Malayan, Chinese and Australian.
Geodordm purpdeeum R. Brown in Ait. Hort. Eew. ed. 2, v, 207.
Tuler globose, apiculate, about 3 era. in diam. Pseudo-stem 7-5 to 15 cm, long.
Zeaves broadly elliptic, acute, tapering to the long sheath, 1-5 to 3 dtu. long and
7-5 to 10 cm. broad. It/florescence shorter than the leaves; raceme short, corymbose,
drooping when in flower, but erect in f r u i t ; floral bract large, lanceolate, longer than
the ovary. Flowers white or pale purple about 15 mm. long. Sepals linear-oblong,
acute, 3-ner\'ed. Petals broader, 5-nerved, with thickened 'midribs. Lip Tery ventricose
at the base and much thickened, the rounded minutely notched apical lobe also
much thickened; disk with a conspicuous yellow callns at the base from which
extends a broad channelled ridge towards the granulated apex. Anther with a 3-iobed
apex, puberulous; pollinia 2, with elongate pits on their posterior surface, caudicle broad.
LindL Gen. and Sp. Orch, ^75; Dalz. & G-ibs. Bombay Fl. 266; Hook. f. Fl. Br.
Ind. vi, 16; King & Pantl. in Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Cale, viü, 181, t. 2iô. G.
dihtatum Wall, Cat. 7376. Limodorvm nutans Roxb. Cor. PI. i, t. 40; Fl. Ind. iii,
470. Mahzis nutans "Willd. Sp. PI. iv, 93.
Dehra Dun, Maekinnorûs collector. Flowers during June and July, It extends
eastwards to Nepal, Sikkim and Bhutan, and south to Malabar and the Koukan,
also in the Andaman Islands and the Malay Peninsula.
15. Oreorcliis Lindl.
Terrestrial; pseudo-bidb corm-like, broadly ovoid, 1- or 2-leaved. Leaves long,
narrow. Scape tall, slender, produced from the side of the pseudo-bulb. Flowers
rather small, in racemes. Sepals ovate-lanceolate. Petals subsimilar and slightly
spreading or subconnivent. Lip more or less oblong, attached to the base of tiie
column by a short narrow claw, gibbous at the base or not, anterior part 3-lobed;
side lobes short, entire; terminal lobe broad, more or less bifid. Column elongated,
stout, ore mor leas curved, the apex subtruneate. Anther 1-celled. Pollinia 4, globosa,
n
OKEOHCHIS.
vmitod to a short common caudicle ending in derived from the stigma
(sessile in 0. Species 5; all inhabiting Northern ^sia..
Leaf Bolitary, flowers reddish;—
I'lowers Btalked, Hp eaccate at the base . . . . 1. 0. foliosa.
Flowers larger and sessile, lip not saccate at the hase Z. 0. indiea.
Leaves 2 or 3, flowers white or pale yellow :—
Lip not sacoate at the base, basal callus linear . . 3. 0. micrantha.
Lip saccate at the hase, basal callus oval . . . . L 0. Rol/et.
I. Oreoeohis fgliosa Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii, 27.
Fteudo-bulb about cm. long, broad-basod and bearing a few lax root-fibre».
2 « / sohtary, terminal, 1 to 2-3 dm. long, oblong-knceolate, acuminate, narrowed at
the base to a short petiole, with two or lh.<,e prominent nerves and a few slender ones
between. Scajx 3 to 4} dm. long, the peduncle with two or three tubular closely-fitting
sheaths 2'5 lo a cm. long. Racem 7-a to 20 cm. long, l a j l y few-flowored; /¡an! Imct
.mall, equalling the short pedicel of the ovary. Flowen 13 mm. across, subsecund,
yellowish tinged with red. Sepab ovate-Ianoeolate, subacute, the lateral pair produced at
the base on lo the sac of the lip. M s shorter but broader than the sepals, all more
or less connivent. Lip longer than tho sepals, deflesed from below the middle, clawed
and shortly saccate at the base; side lobes broadly and obliquely oblong, obtuse, entire,
3-nerved, terminal lobe subreniform (when flattened out), shortly bifid, the margin
thickened and erose; disk with Sve stout branching nerves, but not lamellate. Cchm,,
sightly curved; the sides thickened, especially towards the base and passing into the
sdiort sac of the lip. Hook. f. Fl. Br. ]nd. v, 709; King 4 Pantl. in Ann. Roy. Bol.
Oard. Gale, viii, 183, t. 137; Collett Fl. &ml. 493; Rolfe in Journ. Linn. Soc.
XIJVI, 9. Comlhrhia sp. Lindl. in Royle 111. Him. Bol. 362.
Simla Hills 7—9,000 feet, S f o M a , Gaalk Nos. 4429, 6251 ; L m No. 2160
ColUU; Jaunsar, Omaslon {Didlm'B No. 24188), Ok^im: Garhwil, Jioyi.; flowering in
July. It extends eastwards to Sikkim, and occurs also in China, in Western Saechnen
and on the Tibetan frontier.
2. Oeeoichis ikdica Hook. f. i l . Br. Ind. v, 709.
l U ^ M bearing one or two ovoid annulated pseudo-bulbs from the bases of which
several stout fibrous roots are given off. solitary, narrowly lanceolate, about 2-5
em. broad developing later than the flowers. Scape about 2 dm. long, rather stout, the
peduncle bearing a few loose acuminate sheaths; / „ r i i„ct lanceolate, acuminate
shorter than the ovary. many, sessile, about 17 mm. long. Sepah and vetah
yellow veined and blotched with reddish-purple. Dorsal lineaVlancfolate "Im
long later, subfalcately lanceolate, 10 mm. long. F e h h a little shorter than the
sepals, subfaeaiely blong, obtuse. Lip deflezed from the middle, clawed, not s.ccat»
at the base; side lobes ear-shaped, incurved, obtuse; midlobe rounded, entire or 2
lobed; the disk with a raised lamella midway between the side lobes. Column dilated
at the base and apez, curved, shorter than the lip, yellow with reddish-purple spots
L.p of anther With two projecting teeth; pclBÜ, sessile on the gland, obovoid^
Akn. Boy. Bot. Gakd, Calc., Vol. IX.