Grammatophyllum.] cent, omemipgx. (J. D. Hooker.) 19 
straight nervés and two linear ridges between the side lobes.—I cannot find 
characters whereby to distinguish @. fastuosum & macranthum; the latter was 
founded on Griffith’s specimens. The flowers vary much in size, and the sepals and 
petals of the Perak plant are narrower than in the others. 
44. DIPODIUTM, Brown. 
Stems leafy, tufted and epiphytic in the Indian species (terrestrial and 
leafless in Australian). Leaves coriaceous, jointed on their sheaths, equitant. 
Racemes long-peduncled, flowers rather large; perianthof Grammatophyllum, 
but with the base of thelip forming a small sac with the column, and 
the side lobes reduced to small teeth; pollinia separately stipitate on a 
globose gland.—Spegies 6, Australian, Malayan and Pacific. 
l. D. pictum, Reichb. f. Xen. Orchid. ii. 15, and 20, t. 107; stem 
elongate scandent epiphytic from a terrestrial root, leaves spreading and 
recurved linear. Walp. Ann. iii. 562, vi. 047. Wailesia picta, Lindl. in 
Journ. Hort. Soc. iv. (1849) 262; in Part. Mag. Bot. xvi. 321, with fig. 
Grammatophyllum scandens, Griff. Notul. ii. 345; Ie. PI. Asiat. t. 324. 
Leopardanthus scandens, Blume Rumph. iv. 47; Mus. Bot. i. 47, t. 15. 
Matacoa, Griffith, Maingay.—DistR1B. Java. . 
Leaves 12-18 in., tip oblique acute. Peduncle with the raceme 10-12 in., purple ; 
racts short, ovate; pedicels short, stout ; flowers 1} in. diam., yellowish white blotched 
With crimson ; sepals and petals elliptic-oblong obtuse; lip ovoid, narrowed into a 
broad tomentose claw ; side lobes linear acute, midlobe ovate acute concave, pinkish 
streaked with crimson, disk and lip villous. 
3. D. paludosum, ZAeichb. f. Xen. Orchid. ii. 15; stem and scape 
strict erect, leaves strict ensiform erect. Walp. Ann. vi. 648. Gramma- 
tophyllum paludosum, Griff. Notul. iii. 344. G. affine, Griff. Ic. Pl. 
Asiat. t. 323. Wailesia paludosa, Reichb. f. in Bonpland. 1854, 93. 
Matacca, in swamps, Grifith (Kew Distrib. 5317), Maingay (K. D. 1657) 
PERAK, Wray. 
Stem 1-2 ft. Peduncle as long; bracts small, ovate, acute; pedicels very short ; 
flowers 1} in, diam., sweet-scented, white blotched with purple; sepals and petals 
reflexed ; lip lanceolate, acute, with a villous ridge from the base to the cuspidate 
tip; side lobes reduced to small teeth. 
45. THECOSTELE, Reichd. f. 
Epiphytes, pseudobulbous. Leaf 1, shortly petioled. Scape basal, 
slender; flowers racemed. Sepals subequal, broad. Petals much nar- 
Tower. Lip connate with the foot of the column, 3-lobed; base with the 
foot forming a ventricose tube perforate in front; side lobes small, erect ; 
midlobe entire or 3-lobulate, velvety. Column slender, arched, with 
Incurved apical wings; anther 2-celled ; pollinia 2, subglobose, separately 
Stipitate on a scale-like gland.—Species 3. 
l. T. Zollingeri, Reichb. f. in Bonpland. v. 87; Xen. Orchid. ii. 
133, t. 147 ; side lobes of lip SÉ Ee sigmoid, midlobe broadly obcor- 
ate, T. alata, Par. & Reichb. f.in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxx. 135. Cymbidium 
alatum, Roxb, Fl. Ind. iii. 459. 
CürTTAGONG, Roxburgh. TENASSERIM, Parish.— DisTRIB. Borneo. 
, pa eudobulbs the size of a nutmeg or narrower. Leaf 5-9 in., oblong or linear- 
ong. Scape with the raceme 5-8 in., decnrved ; bracts minute, acute, persistent ; 
wa 3 in. diam., blotched with brick-red ; sepals acute, dorsal lanceolate genicu- 
ely arched, lateral faleate ovate. à 
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