Appendicula.] CXLVIII. ORCHIDEX, (J. D. Hooker.) 85 
PERAK ; on Gunong Batu Pateh, alt. 3-4000 ft., on rocks, King's Collector. 
_ Stem 12-24 in., stout,,terete. Leaves rather thin, base semi-amplexicaul ; sheaths 
tin. Racemes 3-6 in., terminal and leaf-opposed, sessile or peduncled, erect; rachis 
stout; bracts 1 in., oblong, obtuse, coriaceous, recurved, strongly nerved ; flowers 
s in. long, bright yellow with a red centre; lateral sepals recurved, acute; petals 
obovate-oblong, 3-nerved; column unarmed; anther as broad as long. Capsule 
iin, fusiform, strongly ribbed, claret-coloured.— Very like A. cristata, Blume, of Java, 
but the limb of the lip is not * rounded emarginate and crested on either side." 
9. A. Maingayi, Hook. f. Ic. Plant. ined. ; leaves 2-3 by 1—X in. linear- 
lanceolate tip dilated apiculate, racemes terminal many and dense-fld., 
tacts spreading and incurved, mentum sub-cylindric or shorter, lip elliptic- 
or ovate-oblong 5-nerved, base calceolar, tip rounded. 
PERAK, Scortechini. PENANG, Maingay, (Kew Distrib. 1617). 
Stems 6-16 in., rather slender or stout, unbranched. eaves suberect, narrowed at 
e base, tip minutely 2-fid or rounded.  Racemes 1-2 in., simple or branched 
at the base, suberect, flexuous; bracts 35-1 in. deflexed, then incurved, coriaceous, 
subacute, S-ribbed ; flowers 51, in. long; lateral sepals broad, obtuse, nerve slender; 
petals linear- or obovate-oblong, 3-nerved ; lip concave; column unarmed, rostellum 
short, triangular; anther ovate, acuminate. Capsule 1 in., fusiform.—The Perak 
"Decimens are more slender than the Penang, the mentum is longer and more 
cylindric, the petals narrower, l.nerved. The species should be compared with 
` graminifolia, 'Teysm. and Binnend. 
IMPERFECTLY KNOWN SPECIES. . 
10. A. echinocarpa, Hook. f. Ic. Plant. ined. ; leaves $-j in. close 
Ka orbicular-oblong coriaceous margin thickened upper base reflexed, spike 
A ort terminal few-fld., bracts orbicular concave, capsule ellipsoid, valves 
*nsely clothed with soft bristles. 
PERAK ; lower camp in Gunong Batu Pateh, alt. 3400 ft., Wray. l 
Stem 4-6 in., slender but rigid; internode }in. Leaves semi-amplexicaul, pale, 
Opaque, rather waved ; tip rounded, obscurely 2-fid. with incumbent teeth ; upper base 
qoid reflexed, like an ear. Capsule i in. long, turgid.—A very remarkable 
A. LONGIFOLIA Blume Bijdr. 304; Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 230? Thwaites 
keng 806. CEYLON, Ambagamowa district, rare, ds hwaites (C.P. 3208). of ihe 
sa nt thus doubtfully referred by Thwaites to the Javan A. longifolia, this author 
Ys that the flowers are mot in a sufficiently perfect state for analysis. Blume thus 
ribes longifolia, ** Stems simple compressed, leaves linear-lanceolate retuse, 
Can th, densely capitate.” Thwaites adds, “‘ leaves 3-5 by 4 in., retuse, mucronate. 
he Ceylon plant be an Agrostophyllum or Phreatia ? 
R A, TERES, Grif. Notul. iii. 359; Ic. Plant. Asiat. t. 332, is Ceratostylis teres, 
+t. See y, v.p 825. 
A. sr, Griff. Ni z ; " 5 1 lvsis only, from 
"EL - Notul. 359; Ic. Plant, Asiat. 335 fig. , analy » 
Afighanistan, cannot (as Lindley in Hook, Kew Journ. vii. 36 observes) be an 
Ppendicula, 
74. THELASIS, Blume. 
