Podochilus.] CXLVIII. ORCHIDEE. (J. D. Hooker.) 81 
4. P. saxatilis, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 235 ; leaves short recurved 
obtuse, lip oblanceolate obtuse 3-nerved. Thwaites Enum. 307. 
CEYLON ; Hantani and Ambagamowa districts, Macrae, Thwaites. . . 
Stems 2-3 in., fleshy. Leaves 1-j in.  Peduncle terminal, } in., drooping, 
few-fld. ; bracts ovate, smaller than the yellow flowers ; lip red in the middle ; lateral 
sepals obtuse; petal obovate-oblong, obtuse ; mentum short.—Description of flowers 
from a drawing by Lindley. 
** Leaves flat, not equitant or laterally compressed. 
T Leaves broad. Scapes lateral. 
A P. unciferus, Hook. f. Ie. Plant. ined.; leaves 3-1} by 3-4 in. 
oblong, tip rounded, peduncles many very slender flowering at the tips, 
ip spathulate, basal appendage long slender uncinately recurved. 
PERAK, Scortechini.—Distrris. Borneo, Philippines. 
Stem erect, 18-24 in. Leaves y-amplexicaul, shining, tip minutely mucronately 
toothed. Peduncle longer than the leaves, erecto-patent, flexuous, with scattered 
acicular sheaths ; raceme terminal, capillary, 1-2-fld.; bracts orbicular ; flowers iin. 
long; dorsal sepal broad, 3-nerved, lateral acuminate; mentum cylindric; petals 
road, acute, 3-nerved ; claw of lip sleuder, jointed on the shortly free foot of the 
column ; basal appendage grooved, truncate ; column unarmed. 
tt Leaves very small, linear acicular or lanceolate. Scape terminal or 
nearly so, 
6. P. microphyllus, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7335 A; Gen. & Sp. 
Orchid. 234 in part; stems filiform diffuse; leaves 4—4 in. elliptic-lanceo- 
late awned, spike as long as the leaves capillary flexuous 3-4-fld., bracts 
Most minute, lip ovate oblong or lanceolate 3-nerved, basal appendage 
quadrate. 
TENASSERIM ; at Mergui, Parish. MALAY PENINSULA, common,— DISTRIB. 
orneo, Cambodia, 
7 tems 6-8 in., flexuous, rarely branched. eaves articulate on the sheaths, 
-9-nerved, Flowers A, in, long, white and purplish; mentum very variable, 
Saccate, sometimes constricted at the top and 2-lobed at the base; dorsal sepal ovate, 
"Derved, lateral subacute ; petals oblong, obtuse, l-nerved; lip variable, obtuse or 
Subacute; basal appendage erect, }—-} the length of the blade, concave or margins 
«Volte; rostellum narrow ; anther lanceolate, acute. Capsule 4 in., ellipsoid.— 
*cortechini mss. describes hyaline wings of the column, which I have not detected. 
lume’ "v t . 
ume’s P, similis of Borneo is very near this. 
7. P. khasianus, Hook. f. Ic. Plant. ined.; stems suberect slender, 
pes wt? linear acute, spike very short few-fld., bracts as long as the 
om ers ovate-lanceolate, lip narrowly oblong emarginate 3-nerved, base 
ay a P. microphyllus, Wall. Cat, 7335 B; Lindl. Gen. § Sp. Orchid. 
n part; in Journ. Linn. Soe. iii. 97. 
Set, ‘allich, KmasiA His: at Amwee, J. DHA T. T. eid. often 
twisted 1-6 in., simple, suberect. Leaves articulate on the sheath, rigid, 
d. Peduncle shorter than the leaves; bracts rigid, strongly nerved; flowers 
8; lateral sepals acute, nerve strong; mentum globose ; petals obovate- 
9 tuse, 1-nerved ; claw of lip inserted I think at the base of the column (not 
after fi I failed to discover the appendage; column very short, winged, ivi ed 
longer tha ing) to the base into two long erect arms concave pos eriorly, mua 
very h an the shortly calyptrate pollinia, the stipe of which is very short; Ge 
eech Z-cuspidate,—'This differs in every respect of foliage and habit from 
micr 
ron Ën but especially in the structure of the column. o 
