GENERA MICROSTYLIS AND MALAXIS; 347 
oblongum obtusissimum, apice lato obscure sinuato, venis medi- 
anis tribus paullo elevatis, auriculis subnullis ; columna semiteres; 
stelidiis brevibus obtusis truncatis ; anthera ovata. 
Comoro Islands, Humblot, no. 437! 
67. MIOROSTYLIS STELIDOSTACHYA, Reichb. f. Otia Hamburg, 
ii. 118. 
Caules gracillimi teretes, vaginis paucis pallidis membranaceis . 
laxis tecti, radicibus longis tenuibus ; folia 2-3 ovata acuminata 
subzqualia, subopposita, 5-nervia, 23 uncias longa, 14 uncias 
lata; scapus gracilis erectus vel nutans teres, 6-uncialis, basi 
longe nuda; racemus primo densiusculus; flores parvi plures 
atro-purpurei, iis Stelidis cujusdam simulantes, pedicellis brevibus; 
bractex ovatæ lanceolate acuminate amplexicaules virides, haud 
deflexe vix j-unciales, pedicellis »quales ; sepala oblonga lan- 
ceolata obtusa; petala linearia; labellum oblongum cuneatum 
bilobum, carinis duabus cristatis flavis versus basin. 
W. Africa, Prince's Island, Mann, 1151! 
68. M. COMMELYNÆFOLIA, Zollinger, Naturgenesk Arch. 1844, 
Pp- 402; Bot. Zeit. 1847, p. 456 ; Reichb. f. in Bonplandia, 1857, 
P. 58; Walp. Ann. i. p. 744; Miquel, Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. p. 389. 
Planta cæspitosa decumbens habitu cnjusdum Commelinacea. 
Caules undique foliati prostrati, sex unciales vel ultra; folia 
dissita, alterna, patentia ovata crispa viridia, j unciam. longa 4 
unciam lata, vagins 1 unciam longs», purpurascentes ; scapi graciles 
purpurei angulati erecti ferme omnino racemosi triunciales ; 
racemus laxus; flores minimi, viridescens; pedicellis brevibus 
arcuatis purpureis; bractew lineares setace® 3 pedicelli equales, 
3 unciam lougs ; sepala lorata elliptica obtusa, lateralum apices 
purpurei; petala recurva patula angustiora linearia breviora ; 
labellum ovatum hastatum minute crenulatum, auriculis magnis 
lanceatis acutis, fovea majuscula, marginibus incrassatis, pur- 
pureis; columna breviuscula, stelidiis loratis obtusis. 
Java; v. v. in Hort. Kew. ; Lobb 191! Zollinger, no. 1748! 
MALAXIS, 
Swartz, in Stockh. Nya Handl. 1800, p. 233, t.3; Lindl. Gen. § 
Sp. Orch, Pl. p. 23; Lestiboudois, Bull. Soc. Hoy. Bot. Belg. vi. 
1866, p. 81; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. iii. p. 494. 
On the vegetative organs, Hornschuch, in Flora, 1838, p. 257, 
t. 2. 
