110 CXLVIIL. ORCHIDE F. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Zeusine. 
% in., very slender upwards; sepals 1-nerved, dorsal ovate, lateral triangular-lanceo- 
late ; petals semi-lunate with long points; lip when spreed out subtriangular, trenes 
in front with the stout straight stiff claw projecting from between the lobes T 
bearing 2 wings; column very large, holiow, broadly truncate, almost cupular, wit 
2 cuneate ridges down the face, a very small rostellum, and a small stigmatic lobe on 
each side; anther sunk in the column, lanceolate; pollinia narrowly clavate.—À 
very singular plant. 
92. HYLOPHILA, Lindl. 
Terrestrial herbs; stem elongate, creeping. Leaves petioled, obliquely ovate 
lanceolate. Flowers small, spicate, subglobose; perianth horizontal, con- 
nivent. Sepals acuminate, dorsal with the petals forming a hood ; lateral very 
broadly ovate, concave. ` Petals faleate or subspathulate. Lip a subglobose 
sac contracted at the mouth, with a very small linear blade, and 2 glands 
within near the base. Column very short, appendages 0 or minute; stigma 
prominent, frontal under the very long forked rostellum ; anther elongate, 
cells short ; pollinia shortly caudicled.—Species 2, Malayan. 
l. H. mollis, Lindl. i» Wall. Cat. 7396; Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 490; 
leaves flat acuminate, bracts subulate, sepals A in. long pubescent. Blume 
Orchid. Archip. Ind. 115, t. 35, 36 F. 
SINGAPORE, Wallich. Matacoa, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 5337). PERAK, Bot 
techini.—DisTRIB. Sumatra. 
Caudex flexuous, roots very thick, Leaves 3-4 in., black when dry, base unequal, 
acute, Scape 8-12 in., very slender, sheaths 4 in., scattered, subulate; spike 4-6 10.5 
bracts 4 in., equalling the flowers; sepals 3-nerved; petals falcately lanceolate, 
acute. 
2. H. lanceolata, Hook. f.; leaves caudate-acuminate, margins 
waved, bracts lanceolate, sepals 4 in. long nearly glabrous. Dicerostylis 
lanceolata, Blume Orchid. Archip. Ind. 116, t. 38, f. 1. 
Perak, Scortechini.—DisTRIB. Java. Qo rel 
A much stouter plant than H. mollis; leaves larger, 4-5 in., petiole 1 in» 
brown when dry; scape in the only specimen seen much shorter and stoute", 
bracts broader and more concave, flowers twice as large, ovary twisted, Wm 
5-nerved, petals dimidiately obovate, 3-nerved. Column with a minute subula 
process on each side below the stigma. 
93. GOOD Y ERA, Br. 
Terrestrial leafy herbs; stem short, or elongate and creeping below: 
Leaves subradical, petioled. Flowers small, in often twisted spikes. Se? 
subequal, dorsal erect, concave, forming a hood with the narrow petas 
lateral free, erect or spreading, covering the sac of the lip or not. Lip m 
ferior, sessile at the base of the column, entire, cymbiform or subsaccaté 
usually acute, naked or setose within. Oolwmn various, top cupiat 
stigma broad, anticous; rostellum erect; anther-cells distinct; poli? 
granular, caudicled or not, pendulous from the rostellar land, Sne, 
25, temp. and trop. Europe, Asia, N. America, N. Caledonia, and t 
Mascarene Islands. 
* Stem tall, stout, 18 in.-2 ft. Leaves large, suberect, petioled, lance 
late or elliptic lanceolate acuminate——The species of this group are H 
allied inter se, agreeing only in stature. 
