688 CXLVIII. ORCHIDS^. (J. I). Hooker.) [MierottyUa. 



f-j- Blade of lip toothed or pectinate. 



7. M. plantagrinea, Sleud. Nomencl. ii. 144; leaves about 6 

 long-petioled elliptic, scape short, raceme long, bracts lanceolate deflexed, 

 lip with, the long erect auricles much longer than rounded pectinate blade, 

 column with incurved arms. Cuzent. Tahiti 239. M. Hheedii, Lindl. Gen. 

 $ Sp. Orchid. 21 (excL syn. Rheede)-, Ridley in Journ. Linn. Sac. xxiv. 

 342. M. bella, Reichb.f. in Gard. Chron. 1886, 8 ; III. Hort t. 581. Malaxis 

 Kheedii, Swartz in Act. Holm. 1800, 235 ; Willd. Sp. PL iv. i. 90. Crepidium 

 Rheedii, Blume Bijd. 387, f. 63. Pterochilus plantagineus, Hook, fy Arn, 

 Bot. Beech. Voy. 71, t. 17. Epidendrum resupinatum, Forst. Prodr. 

 No. 322. 



PERAK, Scortechini, King's Collector. DISTRIB. Java, Society Islands, 

 Tahiti. 



Rootstock stout, creeping; stem 14 in., stout. Leaves 4-6 in., base very un- 

 equal ; petiole |-2 in. Scape with raceme 4-6 in. ; flowers | in. Ion?, purple or 

 greenish ; disk of lip concave, teeth incurved. Blume, following Willdeuow and 

 Swartz, referred this to Rheede's xii. t. 57, which is, as Wight first showed, a very 

 different species (see M. Rheedii, Wight). 



8. 1H. polyodon, Hook.f. \ leaves 5 petioled elliptic, scape stout, 

 bracts minute, auricles of lip broad erect, blade rounded or subquadrate 

 pectinately toothed, column short, arms spreading. M. Rheedii, Reichb.f. 

 in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxx. 138 (not of Wight, Lindley or Willdenow). 



TENASSERIM ; at MOULMEIN, Parish. 



Stem short, stout, hase tuberous. Leaves 3-5 in., exclusive of the broad petiole. 

 Scape 4 in. ; raceme 6 in., many-fld. ; pedicels in. Flowers yellow, about | in. 

 across the sepals; disk of lip with a raised 3-lobed callus surrounding the central pit. 

 I have seen only one specimen ; it is referred to M. Rheedii by Parish and Keichh. f., 

 from which it differs in the minute bracts, colour of flower, and blade of lip toothed 

 all round. 



9. X. acutang-ula, Hook.f. Ic. PI. 1. 1835 ; leaves 3-5 shortly petioled 

 lanceolate acuminate, scape stout flowering to the base, bracts lanceolate 

 deflexed, lip with triangular acute auricles thin outer margins terminating 

 downwards in an acute angle, blade much narrower and shorter than the 

 auricles deeply pectinate all round or on each side with a broad rounded 

 siuus at the tip, arms of the column large rounded. 



FERAK ; at Batang Padongr ( Wray in Herb. Calcutt.). 



Stem short, very stout. Leaves 4-7 in., 5-7-nerved, acuminate, bases subequal. 

 Raceme 9 in.; lower bracts |- in., very slender; pedicels in., slender; flowers 

 nearly in. broad, white ; sepals 3-norved ; lip with a large central concavity with 

 raised edges. 



10. BX. micrantha, Hook.f. Ic. PL 1. 1834 ; leaves 6-8 petioled ovate- 

 lar.ceolate subacute, scape slender, bracts lanceolate deflexed, flowers minute, 

 lip subquadrate, auricles erect subacute shorter than the broad blade which 

 is pectinate with 3 long teeth on each side and two at the tip, arms of column 

 mall. 



PERAK, Scortechini. 



Rootstock creeping and rooting. Leaves 2-3 in., 5-nerved, base unequal, petiole 

 -1 in. Scape and raceme together 7 in., slender; pedicels short; flowers -fa in. 

 across; sepals 3-nerved, obtuse; lip broadest below the auricles, or with the auricles 

 diverging ; lacinia? all pointing downwards. I have seen but one specimen. 



** Sides of the lip not produced upwards into anricl.'s. 



