688 CXLVIII. ORCHIDE®. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Microstylis. 
tt Blade of lip toothed or pectinate. 
7. M. plantaginea, Sleud. Nomencl. ii. 144; leaves be 
long-petioled elliptic, scape short, raceme long, bracts lanceolate te age. 
lip with the long erect auricles much longer than rounded pectina A Ü i 
column with incurved arms. Cuzent. Tahiti 239. M. Rheedii, Lindl. Ed 
& Sp. Orchid. 21 (excl. syn. Rheede); Ridley in Journ. Linn. Soe, oR 
342. M. bella, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1886,8 ; Ill. Hort t. 581. ium 
Rheedii, Swartz in Act. Holm. 1800, 935; Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 1. 90. rep! ps 
Rheedii, Blume Bijd. 387, f. 63. Pterochilus plantagineus, Hook. A m 
Bot. Beech. Voy. 71, t. 17. Epidendrum resupinatum, Forst. £ roar. 
No. 322. , 2 
Perak, Scortechini, King’s Collector. — DisrRiB. Java, Society Islands, 
Tahiti. ; 
Rootstock stout, creeping; stem 1-4 in., stont. Leaves 4-6 in., base very a 
equal; petiole 1-2 in. Scape with raceme 4-6 in.; flowers $ in. long, pap and 
greenish; disk of lip concave, teeth incurved.—Blume, following Will i a very 
Swartz, referred this to Rheede's xii. t. 57, which is, as Wight first showed, ’ 
different species (see M. Rheedii, Wight). 
8. M. polyodon, Hook. f.; leaves 5 petioled elliptic, scapa ston 
bracts minute, auricles of lip broad erect, blade rounded or su "Beich f. 
pectinately toothed, column short, arms spreading. M. Rheedii, eich” 
in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxx. 138 (not of Wight, Lindley or Willdenow). 
TENASSERIM ; at MOULMEIN, Parish. iole. 
Stem short, stout, base tuberous, Leaves 3-5 in., exclusive of the broad re 
Scape 4 in. ; raceme 6 in., many-fld. ; pedicels 4 in. Flowers yellow, abont. pit. 
across the sepals; disk of lip with a raised 3-lobed callus surrounding the | Reichb. f., 
—1 have seen only one specimen ; itis referred to M. Rheedii by Parish and Rei 
i h 
from which it differs in the minute bracts, colour of flower, and blade of lip toot 
all round, 
9. M.acutangula, Hook. f. Ic. PI. t.1835; leaves 3-5 shortly petioles 
lanceolate acuminate, scape stout flowering to the base, bracts lane ating 
deflexed, lip with triangular acute auricles thin outer margins tern ihe 
downwards in an acute angle, blade much narrower and shorter wl 
auricles deeply pectinate all round or on each side with a broad r 
sinus at the tip, arms of the column large rounded. 
TERAK ; at Batang Padong (Wray in Herb. Calcutt.). . ual. 
Stem short, very stont, eres n" in., 5-7-nerved, acuminate, bases t 
Raceme 9 in.; lower bracts }-}in., very slender; pedicels $ in., slen cavity with 
nearly } in. broad, white; sepals 3-nerved ; lip with a large central concav?s 
raised edges, 
: vate- 
10. M. micrantha, Hook. f. Ic. PI. t. 1834 ; leaves 6-8 petioled P 
lanceolate subacute, sca pe slender, bracts lanceolate deflexed, dade whic 
lip subquadrate, auricles erect subacvte shorter than the broa s of column 
is pectinate with 3 long teeth on each side and two at the tip, arm 
small. 
PERAK, Scortechini, 
Rootstock creeping and rooting. Leaves 2-3 in., 5-nerved, base Pr flowers s 
j-l im. Scape and raceme together 7 in., slender; pedicels shor ith the auricles 
across; sepals 3-nerved, obtuse; lip broadest below the auricles, or ndi 
diverging ; lacinie all pointing downwards,—I have seen but one spec! 
** Sides of the lip not produced upwards into auricles. 
equal, petiole 
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