Tas. 8744, 
MACODES Sanpertana, 
Malay Archipelago. 
ORcHIDACEAE. Tribe Nrorrreag. 
Macopss, Lindl.; Benth. et Hook. J. Gen. Plant. vob. iii. p. 602. 
Macodes Sanderiana, Rolfe in Kew Bulletin, 1896, p. 47; species M. argy- 
ronewrae, Rolfe, affinis, sed foliorum venis flavis manifeste latioribus 
differt. 
Herba terrestris. Folia rosulata, petiolata, ovato-elliptica, apice acuta, recurva, 
margine interdum crenulata, 6-10 em. longa, 4-5 em. lata, insigniter 
reticulato-variegata ; petiolus dilatatus, 2 cm. longus, basi amplexicaulis. 
Scapus circiter 30 em. altus, erectus, puberulus, basi vaginis paucis ovato- 
oblongis obtectus ; racemus 8-20 cm. longus, laxe multiflorus; bracteae 
Ovatae, acutae, concavae, membranaceae, 0°6 cm. longae ; pedicelli 0°8-1 
cm. longi, pubescentes. Flores parvi, ochraceo-virides, extra pubescentes. 
Sepala patentia, ovato-oblonga, obtusa, concava, 0°5-0°6 cm. longa. 
Petala lineari-oblonga, obtusa, 0°5-0°6 cm. longa. Labellum 0°5 em. 
longum ; basi ventricosum ; limbus recurvus, spathulato-oblongus, obtusus, 
basi minute crenulatus; saccus basi biglandulosus, apice utrinque minute 
auriculatus. Colwmna lata, 0°4 em. longa. Pollinia pyriformia, basi 
attenuata; glandula squamiformis.—Anoectochilus Sanderianus, Kraenz]. 
in Gard. Chron. 1896, vol. xviii. p. 484.—R. A. Roure. 
A considerable number of terrestrial orchids have long 
been the objects of especial care on the part of certain 
cultivators, both in this country and on the continent of 
Europe, not because they possess striking flowers, but 
because of the attractive character of their foliage. The 
salient common feature of this group of plants, generally 
spoken of as the “‘Anoectochilus ” group, is the possession 
of a fine and very distinctly marked white or yellow 
reticulation, corresponding with the nerves and veins, 
upon a deep olive-green ground. Plants belonging to 
this group have always been well represented at Kew, 
where they are grown in the tropical Orchid house. 
They occur in nature under peculiar oecological con- 
ditions, and in cultivation they thrive best when grown 
in pans of sphagnum moss under bell-glass covers, each 
plant being set in a small pot containing a mixture of 
Jan.~Marcu, 1918, 
