NEOTTEJE—PHYSURIDIE. ` 497 
bum; lobo medio elongato, lingueformi. Columna teres, rostrata, 
oblique torta, basi appendice bilobà instructa; stigmate conspicuo verti- 
cali; clinandrio carnoso cucullato. Anthera horizontalis, bilocularis, 
acuminata, in rostellum prona.  Pollinia 9, biloba, sectilia, long? pedi- 
cellata, glandule cuneate adnata.—— — Herba Spiranthis v. potius Ste- 
norhynchi cujusdam viridiflori habitu ? 
These characters are taken from Blume. The plant he calls Neottia 
Petola is evidently a peculiar genus, differing from Myoda in the labellum 
not being adnate to the column ; from Hemaria in the presence of a pair 
oflarge appendages at the base of the column; and from both in the 
lateral sepals being herbaceous and connivent. 
1. Macopzs Petola. 
Neottia Petola. Blume Bijdr. 1. 407. t. 2. 
Folium Petolatum. Rumph. Herb. Amb. 6. t. 51. f. 3. sec. Blume. 
Hab. ip Java; in locis humidis ad ripas, Blume. 
Leaves oval, acute, discoloured, clouded on the upper side, and most 
elegantly marked with netted veins. The spike and flowers externally 
clothed with glandular pubescence ; limb of the labellum spreading. 
Blume enquires whether this can be Smith’s Neottia acaulis, which it cer- 
tainly is not. He also cites to it the Folium Petolatum of Rumphius, 
‘which has been considered by Wallich as an Anzctochilus. 
CCLXXXIV. TROPIDIA. 
Tropidia Lindl. in Bot. Reg. sub. fol. 1618. Endlich. gen. no, 1565. 
Perianthium clausum. Sepala herbacea, glabra, lateralia majora, basi 
oblique producta, calear mentientia ; dorsale brevius a petalis liberum. 
Petala sepalo dorsali conformia, libera. ^ Labellum liberum, sessile, 
ventricosum, compressum (?) apice constrictum et in limbum parvum 
cucullatum abrupt? expansum ; intra marginem utrinque lamellà auctum. 
Columna elongata, teres, libera ; rostello acuto ; stigmatis labio inferiore 
incrassato; clinandrio long? infra stigma excavato. Anthera dorsalis, 
cum stigmate parallela, carinata, mutica.  Pollinia 4, in massas pulve- 
reas 9 bilobas cohzrentia; caudiculà brevi.———— Herba, arundinis 
facie. Folia in vaginam longam sessilia, omnind graminea. Spica 
parva, conica, subsessilis. Flores minuti, virides. 
This singular genus has the habit of some large kind of grass, the 
form and texture of its leaves being quite of such a nature. It may be 
compared to Evelyna, in some respects. 
1. Troprpra curculigoides. Lindl. in Wall. Cat. no. 7386. 
Hab. in India orientali; montibus Sylhet, et secus ripas fluminis Attran, 
Wallich; Zeylona, in pascuis, Macrae. (hab. s. sp.) 
Omnes partes glabra. Caulis strictus, tenuis, striatus, vix solidus. Folia 
lineari-lanceolata, Arundinis textura, acuminatissima, 6-8 poll. longa, 
in vaginam longam striatam sessilia; suprema minora, sensim in brac- 
teis mutata. Spica conica, parva, subsessilis, bracteis quibusdam an- 
gustissimis vacuis circumdata, 6 lineas longa, multiflora. Flores virides, 
September, 1840. TTT 
