94 CXLVIII. ORCHIDE®. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Tropidia. 
subulate, lip ovate intramarginal lamello continuous to the base of the 
reflexed apex.  Cnemidia circuligoides, Thwaites Enum. 315 (not of 
Lindl.). 
CEYLON ; in hot dry places, Macrae, Thwaites. 
Stem 6-12 in., slender. Leaves 3-6 by 43-2 in., narrowly linear-lanceolate, 
acuminate, 3—5-nerved. Peduncle l in., naked; spike } in.; bracts rather longer 
than the smooth ovaries; flowers 1-2 in. long; sepals with very thick midnerves 
dorsal oblong 3-nerved, lateral ovate-lanceolate acuminate 5-nerved ; petals oblong, 
obtuse, 3-nerved ; lip rather thick. 
IMPERFECTLY KNOWN SPECIES, 
CNEMIDIA BAMBUSEFOLIA, Thwaites Enum. 314; stem 2-3 ft., leaves few 6-8 
by 14-2} in. elliptic-lanceolate caudate-acuminate 5-nerved, spike terminal sessile 
3 in. long, bracts crowded lanceolate lower narrower 4 in. long. 
CEYLON ; Suffragan district, Thwaites.—Descript. from Thwaites. 
TEOPIDIA sp. (T. curculigoides, Kurz, from the Andaman Islands), a small slender 
species, with lanceolate subacute 3-nerved leaves 2-3 by 1-2 in. 
TEOPIDIA sp.; from Sikkim, alt. 1500 ft. (King in Herb. Calcutt.).—Resembles 
T. curculigoides, but is much larger, with 7-9-nerved leaves 7-11 in. long by 2-21 
broad, and small fruit à in. long. 
79. PH'YSURUS, Richard. 
Terrestrial, leafy herbs; stem below creeping; roots fibrous. Leaves 
petioled, membranous, ovate or lanceolate. Flowers small, spicate. Sepals 
free, dorsal smaller forming a hood with the petals. Lip erect from the 
base of the column, spreading or recurved; spur exserted beyond the 
bases of the sepals. Column very short, not appendaged in front, rostellum 
2-fid; stigma anticous, prominent; anther erect, 2-celled; pollini 
2, clavate.—Species about 20, Asiatic and American. 
1. P. Blumei, Lindi. in Wall. Cat. 7397; Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 504; 
in Journ. Linn. Soc. i. 181; bracts equalling the ovary, lip short, termina 
lobe transversely oblong entire, spur much shorter than the ovary 2-lobed. 
Thwaites Enum. 214. P. humilis, Blume Orchid. Archip. t. 27, f. 2. 
; SinuET, Wallich. CEYLON; in the Central Province, Macrae, &c.—DISTRIP 
ava. 
Stem 1-2 ft. slender, glabrous below. Leaves scattered, 21-3 in., petioled, 
obliquely ovate or subcordate, acute, 3-nerved. Scape pubescent ; sheaths distant, 
finely acuminate; spike 2-5 in., villous; sepals 4 in. long, brownish-red, obtuse, 
l-nerved; petals spathulate, l-nerved; lip white, contracted at the base of the ter- 
minal lobe, spur subcylindric or inflated, nerves strong hooked. 
2. P. hirsutus, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. i. 180; tall, stout, 
villously hirsute, leaves ovate acuminate 7-nerved subglaucous beneath, 
base acute. Goodyera hirsuta, Grif. Motul. ii. 393; Ic. Plant. Asiat. 
t. 347. 
AssaM ; on the Burmese frontier, Griffith. 
Stem as thick as a goose quill. Leaves 4-5 in., oblique. Sepals, petals, and 
lip brownish, blade of the latter white.— A very imperfectly kuown plant, M 
which there are no specimens in Griffiths! Herbarium at Kew. 
80. ANZECTOCHILUS, Blume. 
Terrestrial herbs; stem below creeping. Leaves petioled, ovate or 
lanceolate.’ Flowers in glandular-pubescent spikes. Sepals free, dors 
