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86. Cryptostylts, R. Br. 



Terrestrial lierbs witli thick woolly roots. Loaves basal long 

 petioled. Scape lateral with several membranous, shcatlis at the base, 

 tall. Spike many flowered lax. Sepals and petals very narrow. 

 Lip superior erect lanceolate entire base embracing the column. 

 Column very short. Anther oblong obtuse. Pollinia 2 pyriform, 

 deeply lobed with a small disc or free, rostellum broad thick. Stigma 

 large rounded. Capsule elliptic. 



Distribution India, Malaya and Australia. 



C. ARACHNITES, Bl. Orch. Arch. Ind. 133. t. 45. Leaves elliptic 

 or ovate acute 2|-6 inches long 1^-3 wide, petiole slender 1-4 inches 

 long. Scape 6-30 inches tall, racemose portion 1-6 inches long. 

 Sepals ^ inch long green. Lip ^-^ incli long narrow or wide light 

 brown with darker red brown spots. Capsule f inch long elliptic. 

 Hook. fi). Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 118. Zostevosty/is arachnites, Bl. Nijdr. 

 419. t. 32. Z. zeylanica, Lindl. Gen. and. Sp. Orch. PI. 446. Z. 

 ^yan•erae, Wt. Ic. t. 1T48. f. L 



Singapore: Bukit Timah, Pulau Damar (Pidley) ; Malacca: 

 Merlimau (Derry 565); Selangor: Bukit Ilitam (Kelsall) ; Perak 

 (Wj-ay), (Scortechini), Larut Hills (Ridley; Penang: Moniot's Road, 

 Government Hill (Curtis) ; Kedah: Gunong Jerai (Ridley). Distrib. 

 India, Ceylon, Java. 



Very variable especially in the breadth of lip and height of 

 scape. Banks and woods from the plains to 3000 feet alt. Local 

 but not rare. Native name '' Bunga Bangkong." 



IV. Ophrydeae. 

 87, Habenaria, L. 



Terrestrial lierbs with lobes or undivided tubes. Leaves sheath- 

 ing at the ))ase herl)aeeous. Flowers in a terminal spike or raceme. 

 Sepals sube(iual or hiterals longer spreading. Petals simple or 

 divided. Lip adnate to the column base, simple or 3 lobed, spurred. 

 Anther adnato to the column 2 celled, bases of the cells sometimes 

 prolonged into a tube. Pollinia 2 clubbed or pear-shaped with a 

 long or short slender caudicle and disc to each. Staminodes one or 

 two viscid processes on the face of the column below the anther. 

 Rostellum entire erect below the anther cells. 



Species about 400, scattered all over the world. 



Lip entire . . . . . . . . 1. H. zoster ostyloides. 



Lip trifid. Spur long. Petals undivided. 

 Lip lobes broad, midlobe deeply bifid 



yellow 2. ff. xanthocheila. 



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