446 NEOTTEJE—CRANICHID E. 
3. CnvPTrosTvLis erecta. R. Brown, l. c. 
C. ** floribus erectis, labello suprà concavo axeos carinà suprà membra- 
naceà elevatiore.” 
Hab. in Australia, prope Portum Jackson, R. Brown. 
CCLII. ZOSTEROSTYLIS. 
Zosterostylis. Blume Bijdr. 418. 
Sepala zqualia, libera, acuminata, patula. Petala conformia minora. 
Labellum liberum, canaliculatum, sessile, posticum, inappendiculatum, 
columnam intra basin excavatam fovens. Columna brevissima, crassa ; 
stigmate emarginato; clinandrio ....  Anthera pedicellata, a stigmate 
fere disjuncta, rostrata, bilocularis: loculis discretis. Pollinia 2, biloba. 
Herbe terrestres, radicibus fasciculatis. Folia petiolata, lata, ner- 
vosa. Scapus radicalis, vaginatus. Flores sessiles, distantes; bracteis 
conspicuis. 
I formerly regarded this genus as the same with Cryptostylis, from 
which, however, its anther-bed and labeilum seem to distinguish it suffi- 
ciently. Blume describes his plant as having a ‘‘Gynostemium breve, 
crassum, apice emarginatum, postice cavitate antheriferá amplissimd ad mar- 
ginem callosá instructum." If this structure is analogous to the membran- 
ous lacerated border of the anther-bed in Cryptostylis, the distinctions 
between the genera will be diminished; but 1 cannot find such a forma- 
tion in the only flower of Z. zeylanica which I have been able to examine, 
'and I do not at all understand the figure given in Blume's Tabellen. 
1. ZosTEROSTYLIS Arachnites. Blume, l. c. tabellen. 32. 
Z. labello lineari-oblongo glabro, sepalis petalisque setaceis. 
Hab. in Java ; in sylvis opacis montium Salak et Seribu, Blume. 
Pedunculus infern? vaginatus, tetragonus, Blume. 
2. ZosTEROSTYLIs zeylanica. 
Z. labello ovato acuminato intüs tomentoso, sepalis lineari-lanceolatis. 
Hab. in Zeylona; in humidis obumbratis sylvarum Peradenie, Julio 
florens, Macrae, (hab. s. sp. et ic. pict.) 
Folia ovalia, 4-5 pollicaria, trinervia, atroviridia, petiolis brevioribus pur- 
pureis. Scapus purpureus, radicalis, pedalis, bivaginatus. Spica sub- 
pedalis, laxa; bracteis lanceolatis acuminatis ovario longioribus. 
Flores herbacei. Labellum marginibus revolutum, intüs purpureum et 
punctatum. 
This very curious plant deserves the attentive examination of some na- 
turalist who can study it in a fresh state. A single flower is all I have 
had an opportunity of dissecting. 
CCLIV. GOMPHICHIS. 
Sepala et petala subaequalia, patula, omnino libera. Labellum posticum, 
