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Excluded Species. 

 M, virens, Hook. fil. is Adenoncos vircns, Bl. 



51. TAEXioriiYLLu:N[, Bl. 



Stems verj' short roots copious flat, long. Leaves very small or 

 usually none, racemes sliort slender. Flowers minute. Bracts dis- 

 tichous persistent. Sepals and petals free or conic. Lip entire or 

 three lobed, spurred. Column short, with broad incurved arms. 

 Anther beaked pollinia 4. Eostellum elongate. Capsule large sau- 

 sage shaped. 



Species about 6. India, Malaya, Pacific. 



Sepals and petals free . . . . . . . . 1. T. serrula. 



Sepals and petals connate . . . . . . 2. T. riibrum. 



1. T. SERRULA, Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. YI. 77. Eoots very long, 

 stem exceedingly short, leaves none. Eacemes -|-1 inch long, almost 

 entirely floriferous. Bracts acute pubescent. Flowers minute white 

 or yellowish. Sepals narrowly lanceolate obtuse. Petals narrower. 

 Lip boat shaped nearly entire, side lobes rounded, spur scrotiform. 

 Column arms obtuse. Anther large with two purple spots, beak 

 truncate. Pollinia 4 globose, caudicle linear. Capsule an inch long 

 sausage shaped. Kidl. Journ. Linn. Soc. XXXII. 3G3. 



Singapore: Tangiin, Chan Chu Kang, etc., (Eidley) ; Johor : 

 Kota Tinggi (Eidley); Pahang: Pekan (Eidley); Selangor: Kwala 

 Lumpur (Eidley) ; Trengganu : Cherating Eiver (Eidley) ; Penang: 

 Western Eoad (Curtis); Perak: Larut (King's Collector), Ipoh 

 (Curtis 3129). 



2. T. RUBRUM, Eidl. I.e. Eoots few slender terete, stem minute. 

 Leaves none. Eaceme an inch long very slender, upper half only 

 floriferous. Bracts ovate distichous pubescent red. Flowers minute 

 red, ovary with short nearly sessile. Sepals, petals and lip connate. 

 Sepals lanceolate acute. Petals linear. Lip as long triangular lan- 

 ceolate, spur broad saccate shorter than the ovary. 



Sungei Ujong: Linsum (Eidley). 



52. Pelataxtiieria, Eidl. 



Stems tall climbing. Leaves oblong, obtuse. Eacemes short. 

 Sepals and petals similar. Lip side lobes adnate to column, midlobe 

 large flat, spur short a callus in the mouth of the spur, and a tooth 

 like one on the midlobe. Column very short and thick with long 

 erect arms. Anther 2 celled. Pollinia 2, caudicle short and broad 

 Hubquadrate, disc as large or reniform. 



Species three, India, Cochin China and Malaya. 



