202 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



64. Galeola. 



Terrestrial leafless saprophytes witli tliick fleshy roots. Stems 

 short or very long yellow branclied. Panicles large spreading or a 

 simple raceme with persistent ovate bracts. Flowers moderately large. 

 Lateral sepals larger than upper one. Lip saccate entire. Column 

 long curved or nearly straight almost or quite footless. Anther ob- 

 long decurved, with very shallow cells, and a rather long filament. 

 Pollinia 2, ovoid curved no caudicle. Postellum very short. Fruit 

 capsular long. Seeds minute globular with a broad circular wing. 



Species about tl. India, Malaya, Australian and Japanese. 



Stem stout furfuraceous . . . . . 1. G. Hydra. 



Stem slender glabrous, li}) with a woolly callus 2. 0. altissxma. 



1. G. HynRA, Pchl). fd. Xenia. Orch. II. 77. Stems long and 

 stout many feet long yellow braneiied furfuraceous. Sheaths ovate 

 -\ inch long. Inflorescence panicled branches 8 inches long. Bracts 

 ■j^ inch long. Flowers 4 inch across. Sepals ovate acute, laterals 

 oblique lai'ger yellow. Petals lanceolate oblipue white. Lip obscurely 

 3 lobed denticulate, papillose within yellowish white M'ith dull red 

 streaks. Column stout narrowed ui)wards curved, with a very short 

 foot, yellowisli. Anther oblong yellow streaked red. Fruit eylin- 

 dric stout G inches long ^-1 inch through. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. 

 VI. 80. King. Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc. VITT. 8G4. PI. 351. VaniJUi 

 jiterospcriii/i, Ijindl. Wall. Cat. T4()3. V. ruhiginosa, GriiT. Notulae 

 HI. 247. Erylhrurdil.s aUissiina, Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 438. 

 (partly). 



Singapore (Wallich 7402), (Ilullett 17), Kranji (Pidlev l^Ol, 

 4037); Malacca: Tabong (Griflith), Bukit Besar Ophir (Pidley) ; 

 Selangor: Kwala Lumpur Caves (iJidley 84')8), (Curtis 351, 23!J0), 

 Kajang (Ridley 8198); Johor: Giinong Janing (Kelsall) ; Perak 

 (Scortechini), Larut Hills at 5000 feet (Curtis 2070), (King's Coll. 

 2G57), Waterloo (Ridley 2889); Penang (Curtis). Distrib. Hima- 

 laya, Tenasserim, Siam, Java and Sumatra. 



2. G. ALTissniA, Pchb. 111. .Xen. Orch. IT. 77. Stem long yellow 

 very slender 30 to 40 feet long or more. Panicle large, branches 

 slender 8 inches long. Jiracts ovate small. Flowers iialf an inch 

 across yellow and bi'own. Sepals and petals linear ()l)long blunt. 

 Lip boat-sliaj)ed, a))ex rouiuled erose waved, yellow barred purple 

 insid(.', with a l)road fleshy pubescent central bar terminating 

 in a bilobed woolly mass. Column rather long. Capsule narrow 

 linear 8-10 inches long. Hook. fil. FI. Brit. Ind. VI. .89. Cyrtosia 

 altissima, Bl. Bijdr. 39G. Pumpli. I. t. 70. Lindl. Gen. and Sp.' Orch. 

 PI. 2G. J'Jn/trorchls aHissinin. Blume. lUimphia. L 200. Lindl. I.e. 

 438 (in part). Ilaemaforrlns aliis.vmo, Bl. I.e. IV. t. 200. B. 



