Taz. 7037. 
MACODES savanica. 
Native of Java. 
Nat. Ord. OrcH1pEx.—Tribe Neorriez. 
Genus Macovss, Blume ; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 602.) 
Macopss javanica ; foliis parvis petiolatis elliptico-ovatis acutis, supra saturate 
viridibus lineolis albis pulcherrime transverse striolatis, subtus pallidis carneo- 
marmoratis, scapo stricto pauci-vaginato, spica multiflora floribusque glandu- 
loso-pubescentibus, bracteis ovato-lanceolatis carneis ovarium squantibus, 
sepalis ovato-rotundatis obtusis, petalis lineari-oblongis falcatis obtusis, la- 
bello supero parvo basi late ventricoso intus prope margines 2-calloso, lobis 
lateralibus parvis, terminali angusto spathulato plano, columna brevi 2-alata, 
rostello elongato, clinandrio cyathiformi. 
Argyrorchis javanica, Blume Orchid. Archip. Ind. p. 120, t. 31 and 56 E (forma 
abnormis). 
I have been much perplexed as to the identification of 
the subject of this plate, which appears to me to be a true 
Macodes, differing from M. Petola, Lindley, in its robust 
habit, larger thicker leaves, with green longitudinal nerves, 
though crossed like M. Petola with white ones. It bears 
the name at Kew of Argyrorchis javanica, Blume, and 
turning to Blume’s figure of that plant (Orchid. Ind.), 
it closely resembles it in everything but the shape of the 
lip: in the accompanying description, Blume describes the 
petals as cohering with the dorsal sepal, and this I find to 
be the case, though they are very easily removable. It is 
less easy to account for his description of the lip as 
narrow, erect, undivided and altogether like the petals. 
Such a lip is an anomaly in the whole tribe of Orchids to 
which Argyrorchis belongs, and may be put down to a 
monstrous (or Peloria) condition, in which case Argyrorchis 
would be referable to Macodes, as is indeed suggested by 
Bentham in a note under the genus Selenipediwm (Gen. PI. 
vol. tii, p. 335). 
Bentham in the Genera Plantarum has regarded Macodes 
aS a monotypic genus, no doubt overlooking the three 
described by Reichenbach in his “ Xenia,” to which the 
present is an addition. 
The beauty of M. javanica resides in the deep green 
JANUARY Ist, 1889, 
