Pendrobium.'] CXLVIII. ORCHIDE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 713 



acuminate narrowed to the base, scape stout bracteate many-fld., sepals 

 lanceolate acuminate many-nerved, petals linear-lanceolate, meutum short 

 rounded, lip with rounded side lobes and a narrower ovate-lanceolate 

 acute midlobe, disk between the side lobes with 3 crenate ridges. 



PEKAK, Scort echini. 



Stem stout, woody ; pscudobulbs enclosed in many acute sheaths. Leaves 6-9 in., 

 broadest (1-14- in.) in the middle, strongly nerved. Scape as long- as the leaves ; 

 bracts short, sheathing. Floivers shortly pedicelled ; sepals in. long ; lip as long ; 

 column acute dorsally. 



7. D. macropodum, Hook.f.\ leaves short elliptic obtuse, scape 

 stout much longer than the leaves 4-6-fld., pedicels very short, ovary \\ in., 

 sepals lanceolate and linear petals many-nerved, menturn rounded, side 

 lobes of lip rounded, midlobe small orbicular-ovate with strongly nerved 

 margins, disk from the base to the tip with irregular thickened ridges. 



PEKAK, Scortechini, Wray (in Herb. Calcutt.). 



Stem very stout, densely sheathed ; pseudobulbs ovoid, 1-lg in. Leaves 2-2% in., 

 very coriaceous. Scape 8 in.; bracts small, ovate, acute; sepals.^ in. long; lip 

 auricled at the base. Column very stout, tip notched. Remarkable for the long 

 angular ovary, as in D. cymbidioides. 



8. Z>. g'eminatum, Lindl. mss.; pseudobulbs small, leaves linear- 

 oblong obtuse, scapes 2-nate shorter than the leaves 4-6-rld., sepals 

 linear-lanceolate and narrow, petals many-nerved, mentum rounded, side 

 lobes of short lip rounded, midlobe ovate acute, disk with thickened ridges 

 between the side lobes. 



PERAK, Scortechini, King's Collector ; on rocks, alt. 3-40CO ft. DISTEIB. 

 Java. 



Stem apparently straight as if suberect, stiff, 2-3 ft. ; pseudobulbs i-f in., 

 equidistant. Leaves 1^-3 in., very coriaceous, sessile. Scape Blender; pedicels with 

 ovary f in. ; bracts small; flower yellow; sepals fin. long; lip coriaceous; anther 

 2-lobed at the tip. 



9. D. long*ipes, HooTc.f. ; leaves small elliptic-oblong notched, scape 

 very much longer than the leaves erect 3-r4-fld., sepals linear-lanceolate 

 and narrower petals many-nerved, mentum rounded, side lobes of short 

 lip truncate with recurved edges, midlobe dagger-shaped acuminate, disk 

 between the side lobes with 3 ridges ending in elongate tubercles. 



PERAK, Scortecliini. 



Stem creeping, with very thick vermiform rcots ; pseudobulbs obpyriform, f- 

 1 in., rather close set. Leaves 1J in., very thickly coriaceous, subsessile, prominently 

 5-nerved beneath. Scape 6-S in., pedicel with ovary 1 in. ; bracts sn^all ; flowers 

 white ? ; sepals \\ in. long ; lip coriaceous. Scortechini has two drawings of 

 this, one with leaves as described above, the other with narrower longer petioled 

 leaves. 



Sect. II. BOLBODIUM (see p. 710). 



10. D. pumilum, Roxb. Hort. Seng. 61 ; Fl. Ind. iii. 479 (in part) 

 pseudobulbs oblong to cylindric, leaves short orbicular to elliptic obtuse] 

 rlowers solitary shortly pedicelled, lateral sepals broadly triangular, dorsal 

 much smaller ovate, petals linear- oblong, mentum very large obtuse 

 incurved, lip oblong or obovate-oblong with 2 rounded crisped terminal 

 lobes. Griff. Notul. iii. 315; Lindl. in Journ. Linn. &'oc. iii. 6. 



