Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 205 



Blume Orch. Arch. lud. 175. t. 64. fig. 2. Hook. lil. Fl. Brit. lud. 

 VI. 118. Calcearia fornicata, Bl. Bijdr. 417. t. 33. 



Perak: Gunong Enar and Tambak Batak (Scortcchiui). Dis- 

 trib. Java. These little plants are to be found in wet moss usually 

 at about an altitude of 3-4000 feet. The pedicel of the capsule 

 elongates as it ripens to a considerable length as in Didynwplexis. 



67. Aphyllokchis, Bl. 



Leafless saprophytes, with long roots. Kaceme long lax, flowers 

 mediocre to small white or yellow. Bracts broad deflexed. Sepals 

 and petals subsimilar or tlie latter, narrower or broader. Lip entire 

 or 3 lobed without calli free from the column. Column slender foot- 

 less with no wings or arms. Anther capshaped 2 celled. Pollinia 3 

 hemispheric or subpyriform with no caudicle or viscus. Rostelluni 

 entire. 



Species 4 or 5. Indian and Malayan. 



Stem tall. Flowers an inch across . . . . 1. A. striata. 



Stem short. Flowers l inch wide . . . . 2. A. pallida. 



1. A. STRIATA, Eidl. Pogonia striata, Eidl. Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 III. 377. Stem abuot 3 feet tall, white witJi violet streaks stout, 

 sheaths numerous with acuminate points. Bracts deflexed ^ inch 

 long lanceolate. Flowers about 13 pedicel and ovary ^ inch long. 

 Sepals half an inch long lanceolate acute white streaked violet. 

 Petals broader ovate white. Lip narrow lanceolate acute white a pur- 

 ple median line. Column violet, apex and anther yellow. Anther 

 rounded. Pollinia hemispheric, liostellum elongate triangular. 

 Stigma broad. Capsule pendulous cylindric 1 inch long. 



Pahang: Tahan Woods (Eidley) ; Johor: Cunong Banang, Batu 

 Pahat (Eidley). Endemic. Allied to A. nioniana, Hchb. fil. Bare 

 only two specimens found. 



3. A. PALLIDA, Bl. BiJdr. t. 77. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. I. p. 30. 

 Orch. Arch. Ind. p. 53. t. 13. Stems solitary 10-18 inches tall slender 

 yellow spotted purple with long stout roots. Sheaths numerous 

 limb bluntly lanceolate. Eaceme lax 3-4 inches long, many flowered. 

 Bracts oblong ovate, blunt ^-q; inch long. Ovary and pedicel ^ inch 

 long slender yellow dotted purple. Sepals 4 inch long oblong obtuse, 

 laterals deflexed straw colour. Petals narrower lanceolate acute. Lip 

 paler, about as long ovate obtuse side erect. Column straight stout 

 hooded. Anther conic. Pollinia 3 reniform grooved. 



Singapore: Tanglin, Bukit Timali (Eidley 8137); Pahang; 

 Tahan Eiver at Kwala Tenok (Eidley); Perak: Bujong Malacca 

 (Eidley), Larut Hills at 4300 feet alt. (Fox), Bataug Padaug (Wray 



