PODOCHILUS. 



ORCHIDES. 893 



1490. PODOCHIIilJS LindL 



Oich. 234. 

 {PodochilHs BI. Djdr. 295. — Platysma Bl. Bijdr. 295. — Apisla Bl. Bijdr. 296.) 



1. PODOCHILUS MALABARICUS Wight 1. c. 1748. 2 



Leaves shorl, fleshy, imbricating, obtuse, spike terminai, short, 

 fe^v-flowered, droopin?, bracts broad ovate, some^vhat' cuspidate, sV.orter 

 than the ovary, pelals somewhat narrower than the sepals, lanceolale, 

 lateral sepals 'connale forming a short ventricose spurious spur; lip 

 entire, constricted in the middle, upper half linear lanceolate, obtuse. 



Malabar. Jerdon. 



1491A. (Endl.: 1369/2). APPE]¥DICUIiA Bl. 



Cijdr. 297. Tab. 40. 



1. APPKNDICULA MICRANTHA Lindl. Ann. N. H- V. 1845. p. 386; 



Foliis dislichis, ovalo-oblongis obtusis, spicis axillaribus .solitariis 

 nutantibus folio brevioribus, bracteis subulatis reflexis , labello ovato 

 acuto. 



This has the smallest flowers of any, I have examined. It is near BIume's App. 

 reflexa. which is said to have an obtuse mucronate lip. 



'2. APPENDICULA BIFARIA Lindl. Hook. Lond Jour. VII. 35: 



Foliis bifariis oblongis emarginalis mucronulo interjecto, floribus 

 terminalibus, labello oblongo appendice circulari membranacea et dente 

 ovalo in laminam. 



Dendrobium bifarium Wall. Lindl. gener. et sp. Orch. p. 81. 



Dendrobium emarginahm Reinw. ic. ined. 



Tolerably ahundant in ravines of Mount Gough. in .August. Among ihe plants I in- 



clude under tbe present name , the specimens, ihat have come under examination 



being generally deslituie of flowers. The deQnition given is made to suit ihe plant 



found bv Major Champion the flowers of which I have insufficiently studied. Major 



Champion says ihey are pure white: Reinwardt's arlisl represents them as large and 



stained with rosecolour . and his leaves resemble those of the Philippine form. 



Rumphius' Angraecum purpureum primum, referred here in the ,,genera and species" 



althouirh an Appendicula, belongs lo one of those with lateral inflorescence. Grif- 



flih's Mss. has made! him give iwo lotally different planls . and he says that one of 



Ihem comes from Afi"ghanislan ! a country, in which no epiphyie is capable of existing. 



Obs. Haec sint, Equidem in ipsissima Lindleyi domo notavi: .. Dendrobium 



bifarium est Appendicula haud extricanda , similis „Dcndrobio manilensi Schauer." 



3. APPENDICULA LEWISII Griff. Calc. Journ. IV. 1844. p. 378: 



Caulibus ancipilibus simplicibus, foliis anguste lanceolatis bifidis 

 cum mucrone interjecto, racemis oppositifoliis, foliis brevibus. labelli 

 erecti lamina oblongo cordata, processu sacci scmi-cyathiformi anlice 

 deficiente, sacco laminam longitudine aequante. 

 Habit. : Insula Penang. 



Dcscr. Caulis spilhamneus. vel subpedalis, anceps. Folia bifaria, anguste lanceo- 

 laia. inaequaiiter biflda . mucrone inierjecto , univenia , pallide viridia. Racemi op- 

 posilifolii. subcernui, pauciflori, foliis breviores. Flores minuli , resupinali , albidi. 

 Bracieae menibranaceae, anguslae. ovarii longiiudine. Perianthium connivens, membra- 

 naceo-cellulosum. Sepala oblonga, subacuia, lalcralia basi valde obliqua el cum 



