82 CXLVIII. OROHIDEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Podochilus. 
8. P. lucescens, Blume Bijdr. 295, t. 12; Rumphia iv. 43 (in Obs.); 
stem slender erect, leaves 4—4 in. elliptic- or linear-oblong obtuse or apicu 
late, spikes elongate many-fld., bracts spreading and incurved, lip obovate 
or oblong obtuse, base sagittate. Lindl. Gen. & Sp..Orchid. 234; Reichb.f. 
in Bonpland. v. (1857) 41; Ot. Bot. Hamb. 45; in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxx. 146. 
TENASSERIM ; at Mergui, Helfer, Parish.—DisrniB. Sumatra, Java, Borneo. | 
Stems 4-8 in., rigid. Leaves black when dry, opaque, many-nerved. Spike 
4-1 in., flexuous, flowering to the base; bracts de in., strongly nerved; flowers 
yp in. diam. 
9. P. acicularis, Hook. f. Ic. Plant. ined.; stems densely tufted 
filiform, leaves }-} in. acicular, spike very short 3-4-fld., lip broadly 
oblong or obovate 3-nerved, base cordate with an incurved horn on 
each side. 
PenanG, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1653/2). PERAK, Scortechini, Ze, 
Stems 6-8 in., flexuous, diffuse. Leaves suberect, finely acuminate. Flowers 
jg in. long, white; bracts very minute; sepals obtuse or acute; petals linear, obtuse, 
l-nerved ; mentum short, rounded, sometimes globose and 2-lobed; columnar arms 
ensiform, obliquely truncate, tips at first cohering with the bidentate tip of the 
rostellum, and carrying away the pollinia; anther ovate-cordate, at length 2-fid; 
each pair of pollinia half enclosed in a calyptriform caudicle which is attached by 3 
slender stipe to a linear gland.—Very near a Bornean species, with a cuneate 
5-nerved lip truncate at the base, and shorter columnar wings. 
73. APPENDICULA, Blume. 
Stems tufted, leafy, often compressed. Leaves numerous, distichous, 
uniform, vertical, jointed on their sheaths. Peduncles terminal and leaf- 
opposed; flowers minute, racemed spicate or capitate ; bracts persistent. 
Sepals connivent, lateral connate at the base aud adnate to the produce 
foot of the column, forming a mentum. Petals various. Lip erect, ™ 
serted on the foot of the column or with its sides adnate to it. Column 
very short, rostellum erect 2-fid.; anther dorsal, erect; pollinia 8, 4 often 
imperfect, clavate, attached in fours to the tip of the rostellum by a pom t 
or gland. Cupsule very small.—Species 20 or more, Tropical Asiatic, 
Australian, and Polynesian. 
* Lip adnate below by a broad saccate claw to the sides and face of 
the foot of the column. 
T Limb of lip with a large callus on the disk. 
l. £. bifaria, Lindl. in Hook. Kew Journ, vii. (1855), 35; leaves 
1-1} by } in. oblong obtusely 2-toothed, racemes chiefly terminal very 
short, mentum saccate rounded, lip ovate-oblong base calceolar, sides 9 
column produced into ensiform processes as long as the rostellam 
Benth. Fl. Hongk. 3583; Walp. Rep. vi. 893. A. reduplicata, Reichd. f. 
Dt, Bot. Hamb. 45. 
CACHAR, Keenan. TENASSERIM, Helfer. SINGAPORE, Ridley.—DistR1s. Chin? 
Borneo ? 
Stem 10-24 in., simple. Leaves often apiculate between the obtuse apical teeth. 
Racemes terminal, rarely lateral or leaf-opposed, 6—8-fld.; bracts reflexed, oblongi 
flowers about 4 in. long; sepals obtuse; petals obovate-oblong, 3-nerved; lip 
ceolar at the base, that is having a horse-shoe membrane within the bo git 
slightly constricted beyond the middle, callus on its disk globose or oblong, entire? 
