Zeuxine. | OXLVIH. ORCHIDEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) 107 
Blume Fl. Jav. 55, $. 19 and 23 C; Orchid. Archip. Ind. 67; Miquel. Le 
Z. emarginata, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. l.c. Z. procumbens, Blume Fl. Jav. 56, 
t. 22, f. 3 and t. 23 B ; Orchid. Archip. Ind. 68. Tripleura pallida, Lindl. 
in Wall. Cat. 7391; Gen. & Sp. 452. Adenostylis emarginata & integerrima, 
Blume Bijdr. 414, t. 17. Pterygodium sulcatum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 452. 
Corycium ? humile, Herb. Ham. . 
Throughout INDIA, in the plains and lower hills, from the Panjab and Scinde to 
Assam, CHITTAGONG, and southward to CEYXLON.— DISTRIB. Affghanistan, Java, 
China, Philippines. . 
Stem 2-16 in., erect, glabrous, leafy to the top. Leaves few or many, 1-2 in., 
erect, acuminate, margins usually recurved. Spike 4-2 in., dense-fid., nearly 
glabrous; bracts 3-} in., erect, lanceolate, acuminate, hyaline, 1-nerved ; flowers 
white, yellow, or very pale rose; sepals 4 in. long, oblong, obtuse, membranous ; 
Petals oblong, obtuse, hyaline ; lip yellow, equalling the sepals, cymbiform, con- 
tracted into a short pubescent claw bearing a hammer-headed terminal lobe or 2 
small lobes; column short, rostellum short; anther short, ovate; pollinia pyriform, 
attached within the tip of a linear appendage of the gland. Capsule ł in. long, 
ellipsoid.—The commonest Indian Orchid, very: variable in size. The tall form, Z. 
membranacea, has large flowers, and may prove distinct, but there appears to be many 
intermediate forms. 
Sect. 2. Moyocuitvus, Wall. (Gen.). Leaves ovate.—All scapigerous. 
* Claw of terminal lobes short with involute margins. 
T Terminal lobe of lip very small, entire or subentire. 
2. Z. goodyeroides, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 486; leaves ovate 
green with a median pale stripe, spike nearly glabrous, lip cym ilu 
terminal lobe orbicular or oblong concave membranous. Monochilus 
galeatus, Lind], in Journ. Linn. Soc. i. 187. l 
we TERN HIMALAYA; from Sikkim, alt. 6-8000 ft., to Mishmi, Griffith, Se, 
U, Kurz in Herb. Calcutt. . 
tem 2-4 in. Leaves 1-14 in., sessile or shortly petioled, obtuse acute or niine 
nite, sheaths short, Scape 3-6 in., slender; spike lax-fld.; bracts eda 
è glabrous ovary ; sepals } in. long, dorsal ovate, acute, lateral lanceolate l-nerved ; 
Petals falcate, very obtuse ; lip wholly included, coriaceous, with 2 short spurs 
Within; rostellar arms small; stigmatic lobes distant; pollinia pyriform, attached Dy 
* slender caudicle to the oblong gland. 
3. Ze reniformis, Hook. f. Jc. Plant. ined.; leaves approximate 
ovate-lanceolate acuminate, scape short pubescent, bracts longer t lud d 
Pubescent Ovary, sepals ovate 3-nerved subacute glabrous, lip if ed, 
e hemispheric with 2 toothed calli within, terminal lobe reniorm 
Date, 
PERAK, Scortechini. . 
peti tem 6-10 in. below the leaves. Leaves 2-31 in., membranous, pase pent 
b tole + in, slender, sheath short inflated. Scape 2 in.; spike abou obtuse, 
Tacts 2 in., lanceolate, hyaline; sepals } in. long, membranous, ovate, , 
S-nerved ; Petals $ in., orbicular, long-beaked, 3-nerved ; limb of lip with 2 small 
appendages at the base; column 2-winged in front; rostellar arms longs fleshy, 
aped; entis lanceolate; pollinia pyriform attached separato Y ith the 
bag arge cuneately quadrate horny appendage which is continuo 
gular gland, margin of gland and appendage recurved. 
t Terminal lobe of lip 2-winged. i t 
4. Z. longilabris, Benth. in Gen. Plant. iii. 600; spike pubescent, 
