298 MR. HENRY RIDLEY ON ORCHIDEX® AND 
pauciflorum, Hook. f., Fl. Brit. Ind., v. p. 824, et Ic. Pl., 
t. 2097. Caules 2 ped. longi, pauci, elongati, graciles. Folia 
2 poll. longa, } poll. lata, plura, linearia, obtusa, insequaliter 
biloba; vagine 4 poll. long, profunde tisse. acemi laterales, 
breves, e vaginis vix exserti, pauciflori, prope ad folii laminam 
approximati; bractewe cum 4 parte pedicelli squilonge, ovate, 
acuminate. Flores minuti, albi. Sepala lanceolata, acuminata, 
acuta, carinata, lateralia basi connata mentum breve formantia. 
Petala sepalis breviora, linearia, obtusa. Labelli unguis columne 
pedi adnatus: lamina sepalis longior, porrecta, spathulata, basi 
angusta, canaliculata, in marginibus elevata, apice ovata acuta ; 
linea incrassata carnosa in disco sita. Columna brevis, crassa ; 
stelidia longa, acuta, suberecta. Anthera ovata, apice incrassata, 
antice rostrata; pollinia 4, subeequalia, ovoidea. 
Hab. Johore: Batu Pahat ! 
Pahang: Tahan River Woods ! 
Perak : Scortechini. 
A weak plant, with the habit of some of the Appendiculas, 
growing on trees. The racemes are very short, and protruded 
from the leaf-sheaths close to the leaf-blade. There are four 
or five flowers rather distant on each raceme. The sepals are 
keeled, and the laterals are connate along the edge at the base 
beneath the lip. The column-foot is adnate by its edges to 
the claw of the lip. The stelidia are rather broad; they 
have a thin edge ending in an obscure tooth, and a fleshier outer 
portion ending in a longer point. 
It is difficult to refer this plant to any genus. In habit, 
pollinia, short column, it is very distinct from Agrostophyllum, 
to which Sir J oseph Hooker has referred it. Glomera, with 
four pollen-masses instead of eight, has so much the habit 
and form of lip and column of Agrostophyllum that I think its 
affinities can hardly lie there. 
On the other hand, in many respects it resembles Eria, and 
{ think should be classed there. 
I have re-described it because the materials for the original 
description being insufficient, the account and figure differed 
somewhat from the specimens I have collected. Fig. 2 of the 
{cones from Scortechini’s drawings by no means gives a correct 
idea of the column and lip; the claw of the latter is very much 
narrower, and the base, which is parallel to the column-foot, 18 
also adnate to it, and the blade stands at an angle with it. 
