1 3 8 VAKÜEJE.
Gatliwal at 4,000 feet, Mackinnon; Kumaon 4,000 feet, Slrachei/ cV WinierMtom
No. 26, flowering' from October to December. It extends eastwards to Nepal, Sikkim,
Bhutan and the Khasia Hills.
The flowera are of a dingy yellow colour with vertioa.1 lines of brown, and the lip has broad
transverse dark browa blotches; the sepals are greenish e s t e r n a l l y.
18. Doritis Lindl.
Epiphytic, with short stems and no pseudo-bulbs. Le-'ves flat, coriaceous.
escence from the side oí the stem or axillary, erect or jiendulous. Flowers in loose
racemes. Sepals and petals widely spreading:. Lip clawed or sessile, adnate to the
foot of the colamn, spurred, moro or less lobed, side lobes erect, disk usually w
a forked plate or callus. Column narrowly winged, its foot long and forming w
the sides of llie lip a conical sac beaiing the lateral and apical lobes at its mouth.
Species 5, Indian, Chinese and Malayan.
DORITIS T^ENIALIS B e n t h . i n G e n . P l a n t , iii, 57-I.
Roots numerous, long and flat, forming large tufts. Leaves few, pendulous, often
solitaiy, sometimes absent, 7"6 to 13'6 cm. long, narrowly elliptic-oblong, acute, tapering
to the sessile base. Raccmes 6- to 8-flowered, longer than the leave?, pendulous.
Floivers about 2 cm. across, purple or occasionally pure white; hract minnto, broadly
triangular, Sepals unequal, blunt, the dorsal one oblong or slightly oblanceolate; lateral
pair broader, elliptic, blunt. Petals shorter than the sepals, obovate, blunt. Lip
adnate to the foot of the column, shorter than the petals; hjpocUle jn-oduced below
into a stout subcylindi-ic spiu-, and sending upwards two long narrow falcate backwardpointing
lobes; c/JicMe spathulate-oblong, entire, attached to the hypochile near its
base, parallel to it for part of its length and then curving forwards, its upper
surface with a forked appendage. Column dilated towards the long foot; stiijma large,
rosielluin long and narrow. Pollinia subglobose, attached by a long curved tapering flat
caudicle to a small triangular glaad. Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. vi, 31; Kiag &
Pautl. in Ann, Roy. Bot. Gard. Calc. viii, 199, t. 'Zm. D. Braceana Hook. f. in
Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Calc. v, 40, t. 60. uErides iceniale Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch.
239; in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii, 41, jE. eamosxm GriS. Notul. iii, 265; Ic. PI.
As. t. 338A.
N.-W. Himalaya, Madden; Dehra Dun, Gamlle Nj. 22786; Jaunsar, Gamble
No. 25788; Garhwal in the Tonse Valley 5,000 feet, DIUMP.; Tehri Garhwal
MacJcinnon; Kumaon near Ranikhet 5-6,000 feet, Duthie No. 5997; near Aimora
at 3,500 feet, Strachey ^ WinterboUom No. 23. Flowers during April and
May. It extends eastwards to Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, Kliasia Hills, Manipur and
Burma.
19. Ornithochilus Wall.
Epiphytic, without pseudo-bulbs. Stem very short. Leaves few, crowfled, broadly
oblong, flat, softly coriaceous. Inflorescence supra-axiilaiy, racemose or panicled. Sepals
LÜISIA. 1 3 9
subequal, spreading, incurved at the apex, lateral obliquely obovate. Petals smaller,
cuneate-oblong, blunt. Lip much longer than the sepals, adnate to the foot of the
column by a long broad claw, the claw with a rectangularly bent eub-cylindric spur
at its junction with the apical lobe; side lobes shallow, sub-quadrate; apical lobe with
three lobules, the two lateral recurved and pectinate, the central triangular, entire or
infolded; the mouth of the spur closed by two calli projecting from its back and
front walls, the latter hairy. Column short, cylindric, stout, with a short foot; rostellum
forked; siigma circular, surrounded by a hairy rim. Aniker ohXon^] pollinia 2, sub-globose,
caudicle very broad, obcancate, gland large.—Species 1 or 2, Indian or Chinese.
OENITHOCHILUS FUSCUS W a l l , i n L i n d l . G e n . a n d S p . O r c h . 242.
Leaves 7-5 to 15 cm., oblong or ovate-lanceolate, obliquely tapering to the acute
apes and narrowed to the sessile sheathing base, fleshy, shining on both surfaces
when young, nerves inconspicuous. Liflorescence two or three times longer than the
leaves. Flowers 1 cm. across; floral bract lanceolate, much shorter than the longstalkod
ovary. Sepals and petals greenish-yellow, the former with four, and the latter
with two, broad brown vertical bands. The two pectinate lateral lobules of the midlobe
of the lip are also brown passing into purple below. Capsule fusiform, 2'5 cm.
long. Hook. f. FL Br. Ind. vi, 76; King & Pantliug in Ann. R. Bot. Gard.
Calc. viii, 200, t. 268; Rolfe in Journ. Linn. Soo. xxxvi, 38. 0. euUeplmoii Hance in
Journ. Bot. xxii (1884), 364. Aerides difforme Wall, in Lindh Gen. and Sp. Orch. 242;
Sert. Orch. froutisp. fig. 7; Reiohb. f. in Gard. Chron. (lS6oj, 698; Lindl. in Journ.
Linu. Soc. iii, 41;Walp. Ann. vi, 899. A. Eystrix Lindl., in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii,
42 (not of Gen, and Sp. Orch.).
Dehra Dun and up to 3,000 feet on the adjacent Mussoorie range, Mackinnon'Sy
collector (Duthie's No. 24190); near tho village of Chamussoorie below Landour, Vicary ;
Garhwil, Falconcr; Gori Valley in Kumaon, Duthie''s collector No. 24121. Flowers in
July. It extends eastwards to Sikkim, Bhutan, the Khasia Hilis and Burma. It is
found also in Moulmein and in China.
20. Luisia Gaud.
Epiphytes with rigid terete sheathed stems woody below and usually erect. Leaves
terete, fleshy, distant, spreading. Flozoeis usually small and dull coloured, in short extraaxiilaiy
spikes with sfcout axes; floral hract short, scarious, persistent. Sepals sub-equal, or
the docurved dorsal one, smsller. Petals equalling the sepals or much longer, spreading.
Lip sessile on the base of the column, divided into two parts; the hjpochile saccate
concave or flat; the epicMle decurved, broad and ridged, enth« crenate or undidate, more
or less blunt. Column much shorter than the lip, stout. 'Stigma usually large. Anther
broad, 2-cellod; pollinia 2, ovoid or subglobose, attached by a broad caudicle to a subquadrate
or elongate gland. Capsule narrow, ridged, subsrect.—Spebies about 15, mostly
in Tropical Asia, a few Australian ;—
Leaves long and stout, about 5 mm. in tliickneas.
Piowevs 10 mm. long trichorhiza.
Flowers 6 mm. long L. teretifoiia.
L e a v e s slender, 3 mm. or less in ihioknesa.
Flowers 7 mm. long, lip nearly flat S. L. IrachydachyK
Flowers 4 mm. long, lip with a saccate liypocbile Jf. L. inconspicua.
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