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laterals connate forming a mentiim. Petals shorter. Lip clawed claw 

 adnate to the eolumu foot by its edges, spathulate longer than sepals. 

 Column short foot slender, arms long acute. Anther ovate beaked. 

 Pollinia 1 subequal ovoid. Species one. Sp. 1. 



P. PAUCi FLORA, n. sp. Stems 2 feet long slender few. Leaves 

 linear obtuse unequally bifid 2 inches long, -^ inch wide, sheaths 

 ■| inch long deeply split. Eacemes hardly exsert from the sheath, with 

 a few minute flowers white. Bracts ovate acuminate half as long as 

 the pedicel. Sepals lanceolate acuminate keeled, laterals connate at 

 base. Petals linear ol)tuse. Lip spathulate with a long claw, claw 

 narrow channelled, blade ovate acute with a thickened line on the disc. 

 Column short stout, arms acute. Capsule cylindric very shortly stalked 

 ^ inch long. AgrostoiihyUum paucifiorum, Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. V. 

 824. Ic. PI. 2097. Eri )uinuii/hra. Ridl. Journ. Linn. Soc. XXXII. 

 20 r. 



Johor: Batu Pahat (Eidley) ; Pahang: Tahan River (Ridley 

 23(39); Perak: Hulu Kwantu (Scortechini). Endemic. 



14. Ceratostylis, B1. 



Small ei>i phytic plants, stems not pseudobulbous, simple or 

 branched sheathed, sometimes rush-like. Leaves narrow coriaceous or 

 fleshy, one or two. Flowers very small rarely large, solitary or tufted, 

 white or pink. Lateral sepals forming a mentum. Petals narrower. 

 Lip adnate to the column foot by a claw, blade entire fleshy. Column 

 short, broadest at the top. Stigma very large dmwn out upwards in 

 two long arms. Foni of column long. Anther small 2-celled. Pol- 

 linia 8. 



Species about lo. Indian, Malayan and Paciflc. 

 Stems erect succulent rush-like . . . . . . 1. C. gracilis. 



Stems simple erect, no rhizome . . . . . . 2. C. lancifolia. 



Stems very short tufted. 



Leaves lanceolate, flowers ^ inch across 3. C. eriaeoides. 



Leaves linear, flowers ^ inch . . . . 4. C. cryptantha. 



Stems branched. 



Leaves large lanceolate, sheaths trabeculate 5. C. robusta. 



Leaves linear, sheaths reticulate . . . . 6. C. clathrata. 



Leaves elliptic lanceolate, sheaths punctate ?. C. puncticulata. 

 Stems much branched pendulous . . . . S. C. pendula. 



1. C. GRACILIS, Bl. Bijdr. p. 306. Stems tufted terete dark 

 green enclosed at the base in dry brown sheaths, 3 to 9 inches long. 

 Leaf solitary subterminal erect terete ^-1| inch long. Flowers in a 

 tuft lateral from the base of the leaf, produced singly ^ inch long 



