Hooker's Icones Plantarum Volume N . 21 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ...basali membranaceo. Columna brevis, truncata. Closely allied to B. bicolor in habit and appearance, which is found in the same hills, but at rather a higher elevation, and distinguished from it by its rather smaller size, white sepals and the yellow lip which is not pandnriform nor purple.--J. D. H. Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Lateral sepals while etill cohering. 3. Petals. All enlarged. Plate 2051. HENOSIS LONGIPES, Hook. f. Orchidee. Subtribe Dendrobie. Henosis, char, reform. Sepala sub quilonga, dorsale ovato-lanceolatum, basi truncatum; Iateralia apicem versus pedis elongati nudi column inserta, oblongolanceolata, recurva. Petala brevissima, triangularia, tenuissima, in membranam basin et pedem column marginantem decurrentia. Labellum sepalis quilongum, lanceolatum, rectum, planum, supra villosum. Columna maxima, bialata, alis in processus erectos productis; anthera minuta, globosa, sinu inter lobos gracile stipitata; pollinia 4, lineari-oblonga, per paria coh rentia.--Herba repens, rh.izom.ate valido, repente, imdo, ad pseudohulbos radicante, surculis vaginatis. Psendobulbi ovoidei, unifoliati, nudi. Folium ellipliculanceolatum. Scapus erectus gracillimus, basin versus vaginatus. Racemus erectus, laxiflorus; bracte minut, acut; pedicelli valde elongati, filiformes, erecto-patentes. Flores mediocres. H. longipes, Eook.f. FI. Brit. Ind. v. 771; vi. 189. Bulbophyllum longipes, Beichb. f. in Walp. Ann. vi. 253. Hab. Tenasserim; at Moulmein, alt. 4,000-5,000 feet, Lohb (in Herb. Lindl.). Bhizoma crassitie penn anatin v. anserin . Psendobulbi f-1 poll, longi, l ves. Folium -4-p, subacutum, valde coriaceum. Scapus unacum racomo...