206 Materiah for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



14??) ; Penaiig (King's Collector 48G1). Distrib. Java. In rather 

 dry parts of woods, often on jungle tracks. 



()8, DiDYMOPLKXis, Grill'. 



Succulent leafless saprophytes, rhizome cylindric. Stem short 

 deeply sunk in the ground. Flowers small racemose. Upper sepal 

 and petals connate apices free, laterals sepals connate a short men- 

 tum. Lip inserted on the column foot short broad entire. Column 

 long two winged, with two short erect arms. Anther ovate low shortly 

 stipitate. PoUiuia reniform. Capsules elliptic on very long succu- 

 lent pedicels much longer than the stem. 



Species 2-3. Indian, Malayan and Oceanic. 



D. FALLENS, Grift'. Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. IV. 383. t. 1?. Ehi- 

 zome |-3 inches long. Stem 3-6 inches long. Paeemes few flowered. 

 Flowers { inch long pinkish or yellowish white. Bracts snuill ovate. 

 Upper sepal oblong ovate obtues. ]\'ials shorter lateral sepals united 

 half way, apices blunt. Lip cuneate oblong papillose. Capsule half 

 to 1^ inch long, pedicel 6 to 13 inches long. King. Ann. Bot. Gard. 

 Calc. VIII. p. 2G0. PI. 346. Ilerasley Journ. Linn. .Soc. XX. 311. t. 

 28. Kurz. Journ. Bot. 18G6. 40. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 122. 

 Leucorchis sijlcatica, Bl. Mus. Bot. I. 31. Orch. Arch. Ind. 14?. 

 Apefalon minuluni, Wight. Ic. t. l?oS. Arethusa e'riatata, Gritf. 

 Xotul. in. 3?8. Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 343. 344. Epiphanes pall ens, Bchb. 

 fil. Seem. Fl. Vit. 296. 



Singaj)ore: Bukit Timah, Chan Chu Kang, etc. (Kidley) ; Johor: 

 Gunong Panti (Pidley) ; Perak (Scortechini), (Wray 3.588) ; Kedah: 

 Gunong .Jerai (Kidley) ; Penang: IJichmond Pool (Kidley). Distrib. 

 India, Java, Christnuis Island. 



69. Lecanorciiis, Bl. 



Leafless saprophyte with wiry black stems, roots elongate fusi- 

 form. ]{aceme few flowered, rarely branched. Flowers thin ovary 

 slender terminated by a toothed cup. Sepals and petals subcqual. 

 Lip adnate foi- most of its length to the column as long as the sepals 

 spurless. Column slender dilated upwards. Anther oblong 2 celled 

 terminal. I'ollinia 2 elli[)tic gi'anular with no caudicle. 



Species 3. Malayan and Japanese. 



L, >malacci;nsis, Hidley Trans. Linn. Soc. 11. iii. 3^?. t. 6."). 

 Stems solitary or several 8 inches to nearly 2 feci tall, slender, with 

 a few sheaths oft(!n branched. Flowers an inch long pale fle.<h 

 colour or yellowish white. Sepals lanceolate spathulate. Petals 

 similar, all connivent. Lij) blade spathulate bearded yell(»w with 2 

 low keels frf)m the base to the limb. Column slender. Hostellum 

 absent. Anther broad. Capsule long narrow terminated by the 

 cup black au inch long. 



