82 CXLYIII. OROHIDE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Podocliilus. 



8. P. lucescens, Blum.e Bijdr. 295, t. 12 ; Rumpliia iv. 43 (in Obs.) ; 

 stem slender erect, leaves g~|- in. elliptic- or linear-oblong obtuse or apicu- 

 late, spikes elongate inany-fld., bracts spreading and incurved, lip obovate 

 or oblong obtuse, base sagittate. Lindl. Gen. & Sp.. Orchid. 234; Jteichb.f. 

 in Bonpland. v. (1857) 41 ; Ot. Bot. Hamb. 45 ; in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxx. 145. 



TENASSERIM; at Mergui, Heifer, Parish. DJSTRIB. Sumatra, Java, Borneo. 



Stems 4-8 in., rigid. Leaves black when dry, opaque, many-nerved. Spike 

 -1 in., flexuous, flowering to the base; bracts -^ in., strongly nerved; flowers 

 -jL in. diam. 



9. P. acicularis, Hook. f. Ic. Plant, ined. ; stems densely tufted 

 filiform, leaves -J in. acicular, spike very short 3-4- fld., lip broadly 

 oblong or obovate 3-nerved, base cordate with an incurved horn on 

 each side. 



PENAXG, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1653/2). PERAK, Scortechini, &c. 



Stems 6-8 in., flexuous, diffuse. Leaves suberect, finely acuminate. Floiuers 

 r \ in. long, white ; bracts very minute ; sepals obtuse or acute ; petals linear, obtuse, 

 1-nerved ; men turn short, rounded, sometimes globose and 2-lobed ; columnar arms 

 ensiform, obliquely truncate, tips at first cohering with the bidentate tip of the 

 rostellum, and carrying away the poHinia; anther ovate-cordate, at length 2-fid; 

 each pair of pollinia half enclosed in a calyptriform caudicle which is attached by a 

 slender stipe to a linear gland. Very near a Bornean species, with a cuneate 

 5-nerved lip truncate at the base, and shorter columnar wings. 



73. APPENDXCUXiA, Blume. 



Stems tufted, leafy, often compressed. Leaves numerous, distichous, 

 uniform, vertical, jointed on their sheaths. Peduncles terminal and leaf- 

 opposed ; flowers minute, racemed spicate or capitate ; bracts persistent. 

 Sepals connivent, lateral connate at the base and adnate to the produced 

 foot. of the column, forming a mentum. Petals various. Lip erect, in- 

 serted on the foot of the column or with its sides adnate to it. Column 

 very short, rostellum erect 2-fid. ; anther dorsal, erect ; pollinia 8, 4 often 

 imperfect, clavate, attached in fours to the tip of the rostellum by a point 

 or gland. Capsule very small. Species 20 or more, Tropical Asiatic, 

 Australian, and Polynesian. 



* Lip adnate below by a broad saccate claw to the sides and face of 

 the foot of the column. 



f Limb of lip with a large callus on the disk. 



1. .&. bifaria, Lindl. in Hook. Kew Journ. vii. (1855), 35; leaves 

 1-1^ by i in. oblong obtusely 2-toothed, racemes chiefly terminal very 

 short, mentum saccate rounded, lip ovate-oblong base calceolar, sides of 

 column produced into ensiform processes as long as the rostellum. 

 Benth. Fl. HongJc. 358 ; Walp. Rep. vi. 893. A. reduplicata, Reichb.f. in 

 Ot. Bot. Hamb. 45. 



CACHAE, Keenan. TENASSERIM, Heifer. SINGAPORE, Ridley. DISTRIB. China, 

 Borneo ? 



Stem 10-24 in., simple. Leaves often apiculate between the obtuse apical teeth. 

 Racemes terminal, rarely lateral or leaf-opposed, 6-8-fld. ; bracts reflexed, oblong; 

 flowers about i in. long; sepals obtuse; petals obovate-oblong, 3-nerved ; lip cal- 

 ceolar at the base, that is having a horse-shoe membrane within the border, 

 slightly constricted beyond the middle, callus on its disk globose or oblong, entire ; 



