Agrostophyllum.] CXLVIII. omoHrpER. (J. D. Hooker.) 825 
PERAK, Scortechini. 
Stems 18-20 in., naked below, flexuous. Leaves i in diam, thin. Peduncles 
Tz in. ; flowers 41. in, 
Species of doubtful position. 
6. A. zeYLANICUM, Hook. f.; leaves 4-5 by à in. flaccid, base slightly 
contracted, tip rounded, sheath 1-2 by } in. truncate, ovary obtuse-angled 
very much longer than the obtuse bracts.— Ceylon, McKenzie, Walker, 
“ Abundant on the road to Adam's Peak on trees.”—I have seen only two 
Specimens; in one the flowers are too withered for analysis, the other is 
monstrous with the head filled with fascicles of setaceous bracts. The thin 
ccid leaves are peculiar. 
31. CERATOSTYLIS, Blume. 
Epiphy tie low herbs with fibrous roots; stems tufted, simple or branched, 
sheat ed, sometimes leafless and rush-like. Leaves narrow, coriaceous, 
fleshy or subterete, rarely thin. Flowers minute, solitary, or few in a small 
Custer of bracts, Sepals erect, conniving; lateral broader, forming with 
the foot of the column a gibbous or short spur-like mentum. Petals nar- 
pwer. Lip adnate to the foot of the column by a long incumbent claw ; 
blade short, erecto-patent, fleshy, entire. Column short, top broad, 2-lobed, 
9r with two spathulate erect arms; foot long; anther 2-celled ; pollinia 8, 
small, attached in fours or all together by a small viscus.—Species 15, 
n, Malayan and Pacific. 
* Stems erect, rush-like. Flowers capitate; mentum spur-like. Arms 
f column, long, erect. 
fl L c. teres, Reichb. f. in Bonpland. ii. 89, and in Walp. Ann. vi. 470 ; 
OWerg pubescent, lip narrowly spathulate, tip thickened concave.  Ap- 
Pendicula teres, Griff. Notul. in. 959; Ic. Pl. Asiat. t. 382. 
alt, eum "us near Negregam, Griffith, Kuasta HILLS; at Amwee, 
» 4 oJ. D. H. & T. T. l l 
Stems 8-12 in., as thick A a crow-quill from a stout fibrous rhizome, straight or 
aed, jointed (or with a terete leaf) at the head of flowers, clothed at the base with 
wpressed searious sheaths. Heads of flowers }-} in. diam., sessile lateral or ter- 
bth in a tuft of sheathing bracts; flowers ṣẹ} in. long, very shortly exserted ; 
vi eteole cymbiform, acuminate ; ovary short, ovate, acuminate ; lateral sepals 
mu hat 3 petals lanceolate, acute; mentum as long as the ovary, clavate ; colum 
cà shorter than its spathulate arms. 
n 2. €. malaccensis, Hook. f. Te. Plant. ined. ; flowers glabrous, lip 
nceolate, tip thickened acute, disk with 3 ridges. ; 
g BEAR, Scortechini ; on Batang Padung, alt. 4900 ft, Wray; Mount Ophir, 
Pith (Kew Distrib, 5213). ip with mem- 
abit of (7. teres, but stems shorter, flowers quite glabrous, and lip w ith mom 
jnous margins, This will probably prove to be a Malay Archipelago species, 
nnot identify it with any. 
" . "Towers in lateral 
tufts Stem ascending or pendulous, sheathed throughout. nad renifonn 
o van $ S . th a broad : 
lop, V bracts; mentum very short, rounded ; column wi 
$c Clath densely tufted, sheaths 
` rata, Hook. f.; glabrous, stems y tu 
“lathrately reticulate, leaves Cus channelled, flowers papillose shortly 
