216 ORCIIIDES. 



MALAXIS. 



42. MALAXrS PUMILIO. Huc 1. c. : Oheronia pumnio (Rchb. fll. in Donpl., March 1, 

 1857); brncieis lineari-subulatis floribus aequaliltus . petolis ovatis acutis hinc lobulatis 

 crenatis erosis , labello pandurato lobis poslicis ligulatis nntice obreniformi c. apiculo 

 — Java , Rchl). fll — ,,Allied to 0. niicrO|ihylla. Leaves equitant, linear ligulate 

 acute, 4 on each side. Racerae long, interruptod, somewhat whorled. Sepals and 

 petals green. Lip vermilion". Seems lo difTer from the next in the ligulate side lobes 

 of the lip , its broader central piece , eroded peials , and shorler bracts. 



43. MALAXLS' ODCORDATA. Huc I. c: Oberonia obcordala ; bracteis setaceis floribus 

 loncioribus , petalis linearibus acuminatis intogorrimis . labelli tripartiti basi bicarinati 

 lobo medio obrordato, loleralibus angusiis lanceolatis brcvioribus — Sikkim, J.D. Hooker 

 and T. Thomson (at 2000', 112): Griffiih (Dorjeeling) ; Khasya , Grifflth (Myrung. 

 h. s. sp. — A small, slightly caulescenl species . with the foliage of 0. antliropophora.) 

 Nr. 41. Spikes verticillate. Flowers dcep rose colour (Hooker) . or orange coloured 

 (Grifflth). The Sikkim spocimens are leafy at the base of the spikes in consequence 

 of ihe elongalion of the steni ; ihose from Khasya arc much less evidenily so. 



44. MALAXIS CIMICLNA. Huc I. c. : Oberonia cimicina (Grifflth . Not. III. 275) ; bracteis 

 lineari-lanceolatis subintegris, petalis oblongis deniiculatis sepalis ohlusis aequalibus. 

 labelli 4-Iobi scabri lobis lateralibus inaequaliter muliifldis inlermedio elongato acute 

 bipartito. — .Martaban , Griffith (Moulmein , in dan)p places on Lagerslromia); Te- 

 nasserim , Id. (Mergui , 772) , h. s. sp. — Another grassy leaved species resembling 

 0. anthropophora, Nr. 41. Spikeslong, slender, erect. somewhat verticillate. ,,Sepals 

 and petals pale, streaked with brown, Lip darker,'' Griffith. 



45 MALAXIS LOBDIANA. Huc I. c. : Oberonia Lobhiana : bracteis minuiis subdentatis 

 ovario brevioribus , petalis fililormibus sepalis ovalibus aequalibus . labelli lobis late- 

 ralibus rotundatis intermedio quadrato bidentato — Borneo , Lobb , h. s. sp. — A 

 very small species. Scarcely caulescent. Leaves 1 or 2 on each side . ihin , blunt. 

 Flowers very minute , apparently yellow , in erecl spikes rising rauch above the leaves. 



46. MALAXIS SIMILIS Blume Bijdr. 394. Huc I. c, : Oberonia similis (L. 0. 17); „foliis 

 paucis ensiformibus basi vaginatis subrectis. labelli limbo semitrifldo eroso , lobo 

 medio elongato bifldo . capsulis obovaiis globosis" — Java , Blume (on the irees of 

 M. Salak) — One of Kuhl and Hasselfs sketches , Nr. 37, possibly belongs to this 

 plant. with which it agrees in every thing mentioned except having an eroded lip. 

 The figure shows a linear lip without any trace of erosion . bideniate at point , with 

 a short acute falcate lobe near ihe base on each side. 



47. MALAXIS TITANIA, Huc I. c. : Oheronia Tilania (Titania miniaia Endl. FI. Norf. 

 p. 31); Norfolk IsUmd , Ferd. Bauer — Evidently some species of this section. 



The following are insufficiently known. 



48. ODERONIA SPIRALIS . Griffith . Not. III. 275. 



49. OBERONIA TRILOBATA , Ib. 273. A plant found on irees near Nowgong in tlic 

 Khasya hills , wiih leaves a foot and raore long. U seems to belong to ihc Acaulcs, 

 and has a clavate spiko longcr than the leaves ihemsclves , dense brownisb yellow 

 llowers, sunk in oblong excavations of the axis! and a flat 3-lobeil lip wiih the lateral 

 lobes rounded and rcsembling the peials ; while the terminal one is broadly ob- 

 cordatc with a deepish denliculalc siiius. Is it an Oberonia at all ? notwithstonding 

 Griffllh's comparison of it to 0. iridifolia. 



50. OBERONIA, 120; from the hills aud plains of Bchar . J. D. Hookcr. 



51. OBEBONIA, from ihe Brisbanc River in Ncw Holland ; F. MuMer. 



52. OBERONIA MYOSURUS, L. 0. 16, said to be found both in Nepal and ihe Sociely 

 Islands. Flowors unknown. Requires rc-cxaminiition . but cvidcntly a vcry distinct 

 spccios nmcng thc ACAULES. 



