Podochilus.'} CXLVIII. ORCHIDEJ:. (J. D. Hooker.) 81 



4. P. saxatilis, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 235 ; leaves short recurved 

 obtuse, lip oblanceolate obtuse 3-nerved. Tliwaites JEnum. 307. 



CEYLON ; Hantani and Ambagamowa districts, Macrae, Tliwaites. 



Stems 2-3 in., fleshy. Leaves 4-5 in. Peduncle terminal, | in., drooping, 

 few-fld. ; bracts ovate, smaller than the yellow flowers ; lip red in the middle ; lateral 

 sepals obtuse ; petal obovate-oblong, obtuse ; mentum short. Description of flowers 

 from a drawing by Lindley. 



** Leaves flat, not equitant or laterally compressed, 

 f Leaves broad. Scapes lateral. 



5. P. unciferus, Hook. f. Ic. Plant, ined. ; leaves f-lj by ^-f in. 



oblong, tip rounded, peduncles many very slender flowering at the tips, 

 lip spathulate, basal appendage long slender uncinately recurved. 



PEBAK, Scortechini. DISTEIB. Borneo, Philippines. 



Stem erect, 18-24 in. Leaves ^-amplexicaul, shining, tip minutely mucronately 

 toothed. Peduncle longer than the leaves, erecto-patent, flexuous, with scattered 

 acicular sheaths ; raceme terminal, capillary, 1-2-fld. ; bracts orbicular; flowers % in. 

 long ; dorsal sepal broad, 3-nerved, lateral acuminate ; mentum cylindric ; petals 

 broad, acute, 3-nerved ; claw of lip slender, jointed on the shortly free foot of the 

 column ; ba*al appendage grooved, truncate j column unarmed. 



j-f Leaves very small, linear acicular or lanceolate. Scape terminal or 

 nearly so. 



6. P. microphyllus, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7335 A; Gen. & Sp. 

 Orchid. 234 in part ; stems filiform diffuse, leaves -i in. elliptic-lanceo- 

 late awned, spike as- long as the leaves capillary flexuous 3-4-fld., bracts 

 most minute, lip ovate oblong or lanceolate 3-nerved, basal appendage 

 quadrate. 



TENASSEEIM; at Mergui, Parish. MALAY PENINSULA, common. DISTEIB. 

 Borneo, Cambodia. 



Stems 6-8 in., flexuous, rarely branched. Leaves articulate on the sheaths, 

 7-9-nerved. Floivers -^ in. long, white and purplish ; mentum very variable, 

 saccate, sometimes constricted at the top and 2-lobed at the base; dorsal sepal ovate, 

 1 -nerved, lateral subacute ; petals oblong, obtuse, 1-nerved; lip variable, obtuse or 

 subacute; basal appendage erect, - the length of the blade, concave or margins 

 convolute; rostellum narrow ; anther lanceolate, acute. Capsule | in., ellipsoid. 

 Scortechini mss. describes hyaline wings of the column, which I have not detected. 

 Blume's P. similis of Borneo is very near this. 



7. P. khasianus, HooJc.f. Ic. Plant, ined.; stems suberect slender, 

 leaves ^-| in. linear acute, spike very short few-fld., bracts as long as the 

 flowers ovate-lanceolate, lip narrowly oblong emarginate 3-nerved, base 

 cordate. P. microphyllus, Wall. Cat. 7335 B ; Lindl. Gen. 8f Sp. Orchid. 

 234 in part; in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 37. 



SILHET, Wallich. KHASIA HILLS ; at Amwee, J". D. H. 8f T. T. 



Stems 4-6 in., simple, suberect. Leaves articulate on the sheath, rigid, often 

 twisted. Peduncle shorter than the leaves ; bracts rigid, strongly nerved ; flowers 

 -j- 1 ^ in. long ; lateral sepals acute, nerve strong; mentum globose; petals obovate- 

 oblong, obtuse, 1-nerved ; claw of lip inserted I think at the base of the column (not 

 of its foot), I failed to discover the appendage; column very short, winged, divided 

 (after flowering) to the base into two long erect arms concave posteriorly, much 

 longer than the shortly calyptrate pollinia, the stipe of which is very short ; anther 

 very short, 2-cuspidate. This differs in every respect of foliage and habit from 

 microphyllus, but especially in the structure of the column. 



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