Arachnanthe.] cxiv. orones. (J. D. Hooker.) 29 
Stem 4—6 ft., as thick as a swan's quill, sheaths smooth. Leaves 4-7 in., 
loriform or linear-oblong, tip narrowly notched. Panicle 2-3 ft.; branches very 
short, divaricate, 2-3-fld. ; pedicel with ovary 1 in.; flowers 3-4 in. diam., dark 
green or yellow barred with maroon; upper margin of side lobes recurved; anther 
broad, truncate; pollinia very Jar ze, flattened ; strap broad with a median ridge. 
53. PHALZENOPSIS, Blume. 
Epiphytes; stem short, leafy; pseudobulb 0. Leaves distichous, coria- 
ceous. Scape lateral; flowers usually large, loosely racemed. Sepals 
widely spreading. Petals narrower or broader. Lip clawed or sessile, 
adnate to the base or foot of the column, side lobes erect, midlobe various, 
spur 0; disk variously appendaged, with usually a forked plate or callus. 
olumn suberect, foot long short or 0; anther 2-celled; pollinia 2, sulcate 
or 2-partite, strap linear or spathulate, gland large or small.—Species 
about 25, Indian and Malayan. 
_ The genus requires revision, and a careful examination of the lip, which is very 
imperfectly figured and described by the authors who have had access to living 
specimens. The beautiful P. amabilis has been sent from Singapore, where it is 
eultivated, 
* Lateral sepals inserted by a narrow base to the base or very short 
foot of the column. 
T Rachis of raceme compressed ; bracts fleshy, distichous. 
1. P. Cornu-cervi, Par. & Reichb. f. in Hamb. Gartenz. 1860, 116; 
Scape 6-10 in., flowers 2 in. diam. yellow-green barred with brown. Rolfe 
în Gard. Chron. 1886, ii. 276. Polychilus Cornu-cervi, Breda Orchid. Jav. 
t.1; Bot. Mag. t. 5570. 
TENASSERIM; at Moulmein, Lobb, Parish. PERAK, Scortechini.—DI8TRIB. 
umatra, Java, Borneo. i i 
Leaves 3-8 in., oblanceolate. Scape stout, simple or branched; rachis 3-5 in. ; 
bracts 4 in., oblong, tip rounded; sepals oblong-lanceolate ; petals shorter ; lip 
subsessile, side lobes oblong, midlobe ovate acute with a short falcate wing on each 
side of the tip; disk with a broad 2-awned plate at the base, and a flattened sword- 
shaped compressed spur in front of it, —Habit of a Sarcochilus. 
2. P. violacea, Teysm. & Binn. in Batav. Nat. Tydschr. xxiv. 
(reprint 10); scape 2-12 in., lowers lin. diam. Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 
1878, ii. 284; 1881, ii. 145, fig. 32, 187 ; Warner Orchid. Album, t. 182; Flor. 
ag. N. 8. t. 342; Rolfe in Gard. Chron. 1886, ii. 277; II. Hortic. 1855, 
eo" Schrederi). Stauritis violacea, Reichd. f. in Hamb. Gartenzett. 
PERAK (Ie, Scortechini). SINGAPORE (fid. Warner l. c.)—DISTRIB. Sumatra. 
Leaves 4-10 in., elliptic or oblanceolate, acute. Scape very stout, 1-7-fid. ; 
Tacts ovate, acute; lateral sepals oblong-lanceolate, unequal-sided, acute, deflexed ; 
petals smaller, oblanceolate; lip narrow, incurved, broadly clawed or stipitate; side 
ws erect, narrow, linear, truncate; midlobe cuneately obovate, apex triangular 
Acute crenulate, disk with a bicuspidate appendage at the base; column rather long. 
pet ours of flower apparently very variable; Scortechini describes the sepals aud 
petals as deep carnation with green tips, the side lobes of lip yellow dotted with 
VW the midlobe purple; Warner's figure has a very short scape, few flowers, a 
We " lateral sepal with cream-cold, inner margins, cream-cold, dorsal sepals and petals, 
Perha Violet lip. According to Reichenbach the raceme is sometimes branched.— 
APS two species are confounded under violacea. 
