Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 105 



49. E. Maingayi, Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. V ;98. Ic. PL 2073. 

 Pseudobulbs tufted fusiform or cylindric. Leavci; 2 linear aeuniinate 

 coriaceous, 3-4 inches long i--^ wide, narowed at the base. Kaceraes 

 much shorter than tlie leaves, 3-3 inches long. Flowers | inch across. 

 Bracts oblong as long as the pedicels. Upper sepal oblong, laterals 

 triangular ovate subfalcate acute, mentum short rounded. Petals as 

 long as sepals linear oblong. Lip 3 lobed obovate, side lobes rounded 

 crenulate, midlobe small rounded, with a woolly callus in the centre, 

 and three keels on the disc between the side lobes. 



Penang: Government Hill (Maingay). Endemic. 



Excluded Species. 



E. Meirax, N. E. Br. is Porpax Meirax, King. 



E. mimdiflora, Pidl. is Poacphylhini pauciflonuii , Pidl. 



E. pulchcUa, Lindl. is Tylostylis riyida, Bl. 



E. pygmaea, Hook. fil. is Cerato^iylis eriaeoides, Hook. ill. 



9. PoKPAX, Lindl. 

 > 



Very small plants, pseudobulbs discoid with reticulate sheaths, 



crowded. Leaves 2 caducous. Flowers one or two sessile on the top 



of the pseudobulbs. Sepals connate into a tube. Petals free shorter. 



Column short wingless, foot adnate to sepals. Pollinia 8. • 



Species two Indian. 



P. Meirax, King and Pantling Ann. Bot. Roy. Calc. VIIL 115. 

 PI. 158. Pseudobulbs clustered nearly ]■ inch across discoid covered 

 with thin radiating fibres connected by a menibrane, reticulate when 

 dry. Leaves 2 elliptic oblong petiolate 4-1 inch long. Flowers -^ 

 inch long from the centre of the bulb, brown. Bracts large ovate 

 acute. Sepals connate into a tube apices ovate, awned. Petals shorter 

 oblong lanceolate blunt. Lip ovate orbicular at base, midlobe oblong 

 obtuse, (^lumn short, foot twice as long. Pollinia 8. 



Kedah : Gunong Jerai at 4000 alt. on rocks (Ridley) out of 

 flower. Distrib. Sikkim, Tenasserim. 



10. Tylostylis, Bl. 



Rhizome creeping with distant pseudobulbous stems or several 

 nodes. Leaves coriaceous sessile. Racemes axillary. Flowers me- 

 dium size. Sepals oblong elliptic pubescent spreading. Petals small- 

 er. Lip articulate to the foot of the column more or less mobile 

 fleshy. Column long curved, foot very short. 



T. r'lgida, Bl. Fl. Jav. Praef. VI. Rhizome far creeping, pseudo- 

 bulbs an inch apart, flattened lanceolate narrowed at the base l\ inch 



