84 CXLVIII. oROHIDEX. (J.D. Hooker. ` [Appendicula. 
apiculate between the teeth, sheaths}—} in. Spikes z in., 3-4-fld.; bracts sheathing 
the rachis, erect during flowering, then reflexed, strongly nerved ; flowers about 
A. im. long, dotted; sepals ovate, obtuse, l-nerved, base of lateral gibbous; 
petals large, obovate, l-nerved; column unarmed ; rostellum very large, ovate.— 
The curious incurved spikes aud spreading nearly symmetrical lateral sepals, 
and short foot of the column, are all unlike other species of the genus, The solitary ` 
specimen may not represent the plant fairly. 
5. A. Koonigii, Hook. f. Ic. Plant. ined.; leaves $ by im. oblong- 
lanceolate obtuse and minutely obtusely 2-fid., racemes minute leaf- 
opposed 2-3 fld., flowers most minute, mentum globose, lip ovate or oblong 
5-nerved base calceolar. Epidendrum hexandrum, Kænig in Retz Obs. 
vi. 45. 
INDIA, Herb. Rottler (1779). . 
U^ Stem densely tufted, 4-6 in., very slender. Leaves close set, membranous, base 
rounded; sheaths } in. Racemes }—} in., decurved; rachis slender, flexuous; 
bracts lanceolate, reflexed after flowering; flowers 414 in. long; sepals ovate, acute, 
and elliptic petals 1-nerved ; lip saccate at the base; column unarmed.—Of this very 
distinct species I have seen only one specimen in Rottler’s Herbarium, now at Kew. 
In its slender tufted habit (upwards of twenty stems on a tuft) and minute racemes 
and flowers it is like no other; no locality is attached, to the specimen or to Konig’ ‘ 
description, and as Botter received (through Heyne) plants of both Indian Penim- 
sulas, none can be assumed. 
6. A. torta, Blume Bijdr. 303 ; leaves } by iin. oblong tip rounded 
emarginate, bracts of terminal sessile spike as long as the leaves densely 
equitantly imbricate acute falcately recurved complicate and enclosing the 
solitary flowers, mentum cylindric, lip narrowly panduriform twiste’ 
margins incurved waved, narrow base calceolar suddenly dilated into 4 
broad transversely oblong retuse serrulate concave terminal lobe. Zi 
Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 230; Reichb. f. Xen. Orchid, ii. 117, t. 138. 
PERAK, Scortechini.—Vi1sTRIB. Java, Borneo. 
Stem 6-18 in., simple or branched, compressed, } in. broad. Leaves close «sets 
shining, thin, base rounded ; sheaths 4—4 in. Bracts of spike membranous, forming 
terminal flattened coloured-erest as broad as the rest of the branch, and coterminous 
with it; flowers 2 in. long, quite sessile; lateral sepals erect, aristately acuminate, 
midrib very stout; petals oblong-lanceolate, strongly 3-nerved ; column unarme4, 
rostellum slender, deeply 2-fid.— Blume's description is very meagre, but I canno 
doubt belongs to this plant, of which there is an unnamed specimen in Herb. Kew 
collected in Borneo by Lobb. 
7. A. xytriophora, Reichb. f. in Seem. Fl. Viti 299; leaves 2-14 b 
1—l in. oblong- or elliptic-lanceolate obtuse apiculate, raceme elongate 
terminal slender laxly many-fld., mentum broad incurved, lip obovate Su 
truncate 5-nerved base narrowed calceolar. 
PERAK, Scortechini.— Disrris. Philippine Islands, 
Stem 12-18 in., simple, compressed. Leaves rather close-set, membranous ; bas 
j-amplexieaul. Racemes 2-5 in., suberect ; bracts oblong-lanceolate, membranous, 
obtuse, 5-nerved; flowers 4 in. long; sepals greenish tips purple; petals elliptió 
obtuse, 3-nerved ; lip concave, yellow and purple; column unarmed; anther sho" 
Capsule X in., slender, . 
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8. A. lancifolia, Hook. f. Ic. Plaut. ined. ; tall, leaves 3—4 by Gi 
lanceolate obtuse 2-dentate, racemes elongate simple or branched sto" 
many- and dense-fld., mentum cylindric, lip obovate-oblong 3-lobed, 510? 
lobes small rounded, midlobe broadly ovate acute, base narrowly calceola 
