Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 13 



IV. Ophrydeae. 



Stems short or long leafy, raceme ter- 

 minal . . . . . . . . . . 87. Habenaria. 



V. Cypripedieae. 



Flowers large, lip saccate . . . . 88. Cypripedium, 



1. MiCROSTYLIS. 



Terrestrial herbs, stem creeping cylindric or swollen at the base. 

 Leaves herbaceous ovate or ovate lanceolate, usually petiolate. 

 Eaceme erect lax-flowered. Flowers small green, yellow, white or 

 purple, pedicelled. Sepals usually narrow spreading. Petals linear. 

 Lip adnate to the base of the column, flat, based prolonged .Jnto two 

 auricles which partly surround the column, Column very short 

 broad with short blunt arms. Anther subterminal ; pollinia four and 

 capsule erect obconic. 



Species al)Out 50 chiefly tropical, some temperate. 

 Stem short swollen at base. 



Sides of lip produced into long auri- 

 cles. 

 Apex bifid not toothed . . . . 1. M. calophylla. 



Apex pectinate. 

 Lip crimson . . . . . . 2. M. peralcensis. 



Lip green or white 

 Sides of lip not auricled 

 Stem prolonged not swollen 



3. M. acutangula. 



4. M. congesta. 



5. M. micrantlia. 



1. M. CALOPHYLLA, Eclib. f. Gard. Chron. 1879, II. 718. Base 

 of stem swollen. Leaves few lanceolate or obliquely ovate margins 

 crisped 3 to 5 inches long 1^ to 1| wide brown with darker spots, and 

 a paler edge. Eaceme 6 inches long base nude. Flowers numer- 

 ous small. Bracts lanceolate reflexed about as long as the ovary. 

 Sepals oblong edges revolute. Petals a little longer and narrower, 

 pink. Lip green sub-orbicular with two long recurved auricles, 

 apex with two short teeth. 



M. Scottii, Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. V. 678, Bot. Mag. t. 7268. 

 King Ann. Bot. Eoy. Calc. 8, p. 17, t. 20. 



Penang Eifle Eange (Curtis). Distrib. Pegu and Siam. 



2. M. PEBAKEXSis, Eidl, Journ. Linn. Soc. XXXII. 222. Stem 

 but little swollen nearly ^ incli through. Leaves 5-6 unequal ovate 

 to ovate lanceolate acute plicate oblique, 6 inches long and two inches 

 wide petiole 1-2 inches long. Scape a foot long stout 4-angled. 

 Flowers numerous. Bracts lanceolate acuminate acute' deflexed ^ 



