TceniophyUum.] CXLVIII. ORCHIDE^J. (J. D. Hooker.) 77 



CEYLON; in the Ambagamowa district, De Alwis. 



Roofs fleshy. Peduncle % in.; bracts keeled; flowers most minute, pale green; 

 sepals, petals and lip connate into an acutely 6-toothed perianth ; margins of lip free; 

 column short; anther square, sub-4-celled ; pollinia 4, pyriform, sessile on the gland. 

 Descript. from Thwaites. 



2. T. scaberulum, Hook. f. ; peduncle in. scabernlous, aepals 

 petals and lip connate at the base, lip deeply saccate with a minute 

 incurved midlobe. 



TRAVANCORE ; on teak branches, at Cottayam, Johnson. 



Roots about -g^j in. diam., compressed. Peduncle 2-3-fld. ; bracts broad ; flowers 

 sessile, T \ in. diam. ; sepals and petals oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, fleshy ; sac or spur 

 nearly as long as the limb of the lip, base rounded ; column very short ; anther 

 truncate in front, pollinia pyriform. Capsule (young;, 5 in., slender, curved, 

 scaberulous. 



3. T. serrula, Hook. f. ; leafless, spike sessile many-fld. appearing 

 serrulate from the number and regularity of the very minute subdis- 

 tichons bracts, sepals and petals free or nearly so, lip cymbiform, side 

 lobes low rounded, midlobe very short thick, spur scrotiform. 



FERAE ; at Larut, King's Collector. 



Roots stout, i in. diam. Spikes -1 in. ; bracts concave, obtuse ; flowers about 

 J- in. diam., reddish-yellow ; sepals lanceolate, obtuse and narrower petals with one 

 thick nerve ; side lobes of lip incurved ; column very short, papillose. Capsule -f-li 

 in., trigonous. 



69. 1KXCROSACCUS, Blitme. 



Small densely tufted epiphytes; stems densely leafy. Leaves disti- 

 chous, narrow or scalpelliform, fleshy. Flowers minute, subsessile or very 

 shortly racemose. Sepals and petals subequal, widely spreading. Lip 

 small, adnate to the base of the column, base broadly saccate ; side lobes 

 small or 0, midlobe broad subentire. Column very short, truncate ; anther 

 obtuse ; pollinia 4, distinct, ellipsoid or globose, sessile on the slender 

 strap, gland small or medium sized. Capsule small. Species 3 or 4, 

 Malayan. 



1. UK. javensis, Blume Bijdr. 367 ; leaves equitant scalpelliform, 

 flowers subsolitary. Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 219. Saccolabium 

 Grifnthii, Par. & Eeichb.f. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxx. 145. 



TENASSERIM ; at Mergui, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 52-14), Heifer (Kew Distrib. 

 5384), Parish. PERAK, ScortecTii'ni. DISTRIB. Malay Islands, Cambodia. 



Stems 2-4 in., curved, \ in. diam. across the leaves. Leaves broad'y ovate, 

 obtuse, somewhat recurved, wrinkled when dry. Flowers -^ in. diam., almost con- 

 cealed by the leaves, cellular, white ; bracts scarious, sheathing; sepals lanceolate; 

 petals rather narrower; lip obtusely 3-lobed. Capsule % in., sessile, ellipsoid. 

 Description of flower from a drawing by Griffith in Herb. Lindl. I have seen 

 no authentic Javan specimen, but the Indian plant agrees well with Blume's 

 description. 



2. IK. virens, Hook. f. ; leaves linear-oblong trigonous, flowers in 

 very short racemes. ? Adenoncos virens, Blume Bijdr. 381 ; Lindl. Gen. 

 & Sp. Orchid. 235. 



PERAK, Scortechini. DISTRIB. Java, Borneo. 



Stems 4-8 in., very stout, strongly incurved. Leaves 1-1| by in., very thick 

 and fleshy, subacute. Racemes much shorter than the leaves, 3-6-fld. ; bracts dis- 

 tichous, ovate, acute, very coriaceous and persistent; flowers coriaceous, about % in. 



