PANISEA

Lindl.

Small tufted epiphytes ; pseudobulbs crowded , 2-leaved . Leaves plaited. Scape lateral ; flowers few , racemed ; bracts membranous . Sepals and petals subequal , narrow, erect; lateral sepals saccate at the base . Lip as long as the sepals , adnate to the base of the column ; claw sigmoid . Column slender , erect , 2-winged above ; anther 2-celled ; pollinia 4, ovoid , free or subcoherent by a viscus.

Very near Coelogyne ( to which Bentham has referred Lindley’s other species), differing chiefly in the clawed lip.