310 MR. HENRY RIDLEY ON ORCHIDEZ AND 
tenuis, plana, 2-locularis, late ovata, in parte media carnosa; 
rostellum latum, ovatum, tenue. Stigma parvum, lamina 
oblonga lateraliter complanata auctum. Capsula 3 poll. longa, 
elliptica, erecta. 
Hab. Perak: Maxwell’s Hill, Larut Hills, on a fallen tree ! 
Hermitage Hill! Kwala Kangsa! 
This forms close tufts 2 inches across or less, with very many 
short stems covered with brown sheaths, each stem bearing two 
narrow linear leaves. The flowers are borne on slender, woolly 
peduncles, so short as to be almost hidden among the leaves. 
They are of a pale pinkish colour and very inconspicuous. The 
mentum of the sepals is longer than the rest of the flower, and 
clubbed. 
The lip is long and narrow, thin textured, except at the 
apex, where it is fleshy and thickened, a thickened band runs 
from the base to this fleshy portion. The “auricles” of the 
column, ‘.e., the stelidia, are shorter and less distinct than in such 
species as ©. malaccensis, Hook. f., the rostellum in the form 
of a thin membrane with a terminal lip being well developed, 
and connecting them for their complete length. From the 
centre of the stigma rises a laterally flattened lamina which 
nearly touches the lip of the rostellum. A somewhat similar 
process occurs in Agrostophyllum javanicum, Blume. 
The anther is thin except in the centre, where there is @ 
thickened band which runs down to the blunt truncate beak. 
The species is clearly near C. erioides, Hook. f., from which 
it differs, especially in the much longer mentum and lip, and 
much smaller flowers. 
CERATOSTYLIS ERINOIDES, Hook. f., Ic. Pl., t. 2074 B. 
Eria pygmea, Hook. f., Fl. Brit. Ind., v. p. 804. 
Hab. Perak: Wray. 
C. penpuLa, Hook. f., Fl. Brit. Ind., v. p. 826. 
Hab. Perak: Maxwell’s Hill! 
Pahang: Near Pekan, on bushes in open country! 
Also Borneo, Celebes, and Manila, Vidal! 
By no means common, though so widely distributed. A 
slender pendulous plant with thin woolly roots. Leaves dark 
green, polished above, channelled on the upper surface, convex 
and paler beneath. Flowers very small white, the short ovary 
and base of sepals covered with fine appressed white hairs, very 
