Ornithochilus
(from ornis, ornithos, a bird, and cheilos, a lip; referring to the shape of the labellum). ORD. Orchideae. This genus comprises only a couple of species of stove epiphytal orchids, natives of Burmah and the Himalayas. Flowers small, pedicellate, disposed in lateral racemes; sepals spreading, the lateral ones rather broader; petals rather narrower than the dorsal sepal; lip spreading at base of column; lamina two or three-lobed. For culture of the under-mentioned species, see Aerides (with which this genus is sometimes confused).
O. fuscus (brownish). fl. brownish-yellow, striped with purple, odorous; sepals oblong, obtuse, lateral ones larger, oblique; petals linear, obtuse; lip cucullate, bilobed, unguiculate, the lobes rotundate, fimbriated, with a conical spur. l. oblong, fleshy, acute, obliquely bilobed. Nepaul, 1865. This is the proper name of plant described in this work as Aerides difforme.