Materials for a Flora of ihe Malayan Peninsula. 201 



with a long slender caudicle. Eostelhim very long deeply bifid. Cap- 

 sule ^ inch long lusiform. Sclilcchter I.e. 77. 0. decurva, Hook, 

 fil. Ic. PI. 3157. Thelasis contracta, Bl. Miis. Bot. Lugd. Bat. II. 

 187. Orch. Arch. Ind. 24. t. 5 B. Tli. decurva, Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. 

 Ind. VI. 87. 



Singapore: Kranji (Eidley 1G40, 367); Pahang: Tahan River 

 (Eidley) ; Penang: Government Hill (Maingay). Distrib. Sumatra, 

 Java, Ehio, Borneo, Pulau Condor, Waigiou. Common in mangrove 

 swamps. 



III. Neottieae. 



63. Vaxilla, Sw. 



Climbing shrubs with fleshy ovate leaves or none. Eacemes 

 short stout axillary. Flowers large and showy. Sepals and petals 

 subequal spreading. Lip large three lobed or subentire adnate to 

 column base, with the sides wrapping the column or e.xplanate. 

 Column long. Anther broad incurved. Pollinia granular. Eos- 

 tellum broad entire or nearly so. Capsule long fleshy terete. Seeds 

 minute globose. 



Species about 30. All tropical countries. 



V. Griffithii, Echb. fil. Bonplandia IT. 88. Stem about 30 feet 

 long. Leaves fleshy lanceolate to ovate lanceolate 6 inches long, 

 3 inches wide or less. Eaceme eventually 3 inches long thick. Bracts 

 ovate. Flowers numerous opening singly over 3 inches across. 

 Sepals ovate. Petals linear obovate, greenish white. Lip explanate 

 three lobed side lobes rounded white, disc channelled with chestnut 

 red raised nerves, midlobe broadly bilobed lobes rounded fan-shaped 

 plicate white with a white woolly ball at the base. Column arched 

 white. Anther broad truncate. Fruit 3.\ inches long -J inch through 

 succulent eatable. Y. albida, Hook. fl. Fl. Brit. Ind.'VI. 91. (Xot 

 Blume) V. sp. Griff. Xotulae III. 307. Ic. PI. As. t. 381. V. tohj- 

 pppliora, Eidl.. Trans. Linn. Soc. III. 376. 



Singapore: Changi (Eidley 3934), Pulau Ubin (Eidley) ; Johor: 

 Batu Pahat ; Pahang: Pekan (Eidley); Malacca: Panchor (Good- 

 enough 1530, 1969); Selangor: Bukit Hitam (Kelsall) ; Perak: 

 Larut Hills (Stephens), (King's Coll. 3537, 3996, 7538) ; Bindings: 

 Bruas (Eidlev), (Scortechini) ; Penang Waterfall (Curtis 11T9, 

 3371), Telok Bahang (Curtis), (Wallich 7401). Distrib. Karimun 

 Isles. Native names, " Akar Punubal,-' '' Telinah Kerbau Bukit." 

 The flowers pounded with water are used to rub on the body for fever, 

 the leaves are mashed and applied to the hair for strengthening it. 

 The fruits are sweet and eatable. The stem and leaves contain a 

 whitish irritating latex. 



