80 CXLVIII. ORCHIDEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Acriopsis. 
SINGAPORE ; at Bukit Mandi, Ridley. . 
Pseudobulbs broadly ovoid, compressed. Leaves 3-4 in., linear, olive green. 
Scape simple (always?); raceme lax-üd.; flowers yellow, sparsely spotted with 
crimson ; lip white, lamelle crimson. 
72. PODOCHILUS, Blume. 
Stems tufted, erect or diffuse. Leaves many, uniform, distichous, flat 
or equitant and laterally compressed. Peduncles terminal or leaf-opposed ; 
flowers minute, racemed or spieate; bracts persistent. Lateral sepals 
adnate with the prolonged foot of the column and together at the base, 
forming a mentum. Petals broad or narrow. Lip clawed, jointed to the 
foot of the column, mobile (always?) erect, with a basal appendage. 
Column very short; rostellum terminal, triangular, erect, bifid or bipar- 
tite; anther erect ; pollinia 4, each pair half enclosed in a calyptriform 
stipe fixed by a gland to the top of the rostellum. Capsule very small, 
ellipsoid.—Species 12 or more, Indian and Malayan. 
The flowers of all the species want careful examination on a living state. There 
are great differences in the columnar structure and pollinia that cannot be satisfac- 
torily determined from dried specimens. These last are almost in all cases deficient 
in flowers, which are easily detached, and so minute as to escape the notice of 
collectors. 
* Leaves equitant, laterally compressed, not articulate with the sheath. 
Flowers secund, on inclined or decurved lax-fld. racemes. 
1. P. cultratus, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7336; Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 
234; in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 37; leaves ensiform subfalcate acute, lip 
cuneately oblong truncate 5-nerved, base saccate. 
TROPICAL HIMALAYA; Nepal, Wallich; Sikkim, J. D. H. Assam, Masters. 
Cacnar, Clarke. 'l'ENASSERIM ; the Attran River, Parish. 
Stem 3-7 in., with the leaves 4-2 iu. broad. Leaves 1-2 in. many nerved. 
Peduncle short, decurved ; bracts ovate-lanceolate ; flowers } in. long ; dorsal gepal 
broad, 5-nerved, lateral subacute ; petals broadly obovate, acute, 3-uerved ; mentum 
saccate; base of Jip broad. Capsule 4 in.—Vhe lip resembles that of an 
Appendicula ; 1 doubt its being articulate and mobile. 
2. P. falcatus, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 234: leaves ensiform 
obtuse, lip narrowly clawed oblanceolate 3-nerved, base with a short 
notched appendage. Thwaites Enum. 306. 
CEYLON ; Central Province, alt. 3-6000 ft., common. 
Habit of P. cultratus, but stems longer, 6-12 in, Rostellum with an involute 
top, round which the capillary tails of the pollinia are curved, gland minute. Im 
var, angustata, Thw. (C.P. 3889), the leaves are so closely appressed to one another, 
that not even the points are free, and the breadth of the stem across the leaves 18 
only à in. 
3. P. malabaricus, Wight Ic. t. 1748, fig. 9; leaves obtuse, spike 
many-fld. much longer than the leaves, mentum very short, lip linear 
lanceolate obtuse contracted in the middle. Walp. Ann. vi. 893. 
Maranan, Jerdon; Wynaad jungles, Drew. TRAVANCORE, Johnson. . 
Sten 3-5 in., fleshy, X in. across the leaves. L-aves X in, straight. Spike 
1-1} in., inclined or horizontal, few-fld.; bracts broadly ovate; flowers white tip 
with pink ; petals lanc:olate ; lip constricted in the middle.—I have seen no flowers. 
Wighu's expression of lip contracted in the middle probably implied that the 
appendage is as large as the blade. Probably not different from P. falcatus. 
