﻿MICROSTYLIS LANCIFOLIA, Thw. 



Orchide^;. Tribe Malaxed. 



M. lancifolia, Thwaites Entim. 269 ; acaulis, ebnlbosa, foliis 5-7 

 petiolatis elliptico-lanceolatis acuminatis 3-nerviis, scapo foliis lon- 

 giore multibracteato, racemo mnltifloro, floribus parvis, bracteis lanceo- 

 latis erecto-patentibus, sepalis oblongis obtusis, petalis lineari-oblongis 

 obtusis, labello parvo ambitu gemicirculari pectinatim laciniato, disco 

 depresso, columnae alis patulis. IliJlo/ in Jowrn. Linn. Soc. xxiv. 346. 



77, « 



Ceylon, in the Saffragam and Ambagamowa districts, 



Ceespitosa, radicibns crassiusculis. Folia 2 -4 poll. longa, f-f poll- 

 lata, in petiolum f-l| poll, longum angustata. Scopus una cum 

 racemo 4-6-pollicaris. Flores ± poll, lati ; bractea) floriferaB pedicello 

 orevi subaeqnilongse ; sepala et petala 1-nervia. Capsula longa. 



This, as Thwaites observes, resembles what would be a narrow- 

 loQ "H petioled state of the common Nilgbiri and Ceylon M. versicolor, 



/'ght (.1/. vgrticolw, I >, the type of the group, 



2, M. r.rsicolor, Wight Ic. 901 not of Lindl., M. pratensis, Bidlej), 



of wbich M. luteola, Wight, may be regarded as a ta - 



janety; 3, M. Stucksii, Hook, f. (Plate 1833), and M 



J- here is also M. crenulata, Ridley (in Jovrv. 



of which there are no specimens at Kew. It has deflexed bracts and 



a crenulate lip.— J. D. Hooker. 



F 'g. 1. Flower. 2. Lip. 3. Fruit. All enlarged. 



