110 OXLVIII. ORCHIDS,*!. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Zeuxine. 



f in. , very slender upwards ; sepals 1-nerved, dorsal ovate, lateral triangular-lanceo- 

 late; petals semi-lunate with long points ; lip when spread out subtriangular, truncate 

 in front with the stout straight stiff claw projecting from between the lobes and 

 bearing 2 wings ; column very large, hollow, broadly truncate, almost cupular, with 

 2 cuneate ridges down the face, a very small rostellum, and a small stigmatic lobe on 

 each side ; anther sunk in the column, lanceolate ; pollinia narrowly clavate. A 

 very singular plant. 



92. HYLOFHILA, Lindl 



Terrestrial herbs; stem elongate, creeping. Leaves petioled, obliquely ovate- 

 lanceolate. Flowers small, spicate, subglobose ; perianth horizontal, con- 

 nivent. Sepals acuminate, dorsal with the petals forming a hood ; lateral very 

 broadly ovate, concave. Petals falcate or subspathulate. Lip a subglobose 

 sac contracted at the mouth, with a very small linear blade, and 2 glands 

 within near the base. Column very short, appendages or minute ; stigma 

 prominent, frontal under the very long forked rostellum ; anther elongate, 

 cells short ; pollinia shortly caudicled. Species 2, Malayan. 



1. H. mollis, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7396; Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 490; 

 leaves flat acuminate, bracts subulate, sepals in. long pubescent. Blume 

 Orchid. ArcUp. Ind. 115, t. 35, 36 F. 



SINGAPORE, Wallich. MALACCA, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 5337). PEBAK, Scor- 

 techini. DISTRIB. Sumatra. 



Caudex flexuous, roots very thick. Leaves 3-4 in., black when dry, base unequal, 

 acute. Scape 8-12 in., very slender, sheaths | in., scattered, subulate ; spike 4-6 in. j 

 bracts in., equalling the flowers; sepals 3-nerved ; petals falcately lanceolate, 

 acute. 



2. H. lanceolata, Hook. f. ; leaves caudate-acuminate, margins 

 waved, bracts lanceolate, sepals in. long nearly glabrous. Dicerostylis 

 lanceolata, Blume Orchid. Archip. Ind. 116, t. 38, f. 1. 



PERAK, Scortechini. DISTRIB. Java. 



A much stouter plant than H. mollis ; leaves larger, 4-5 in., petiole 1 in., red 

 brown when dry; scape in the only specimen seen much shorter and stouter, 

 bracts broader and more concave, flowers twice as large, ovary twisted, sepals 

 5-uerved, petals dimidiately obovate, 3-nerved. Column with a minute subulate 

 process on each side below the stigma. 



93. GOODYERA, Br. 



Terrestrial leafy herbs ; stem short, or elongate and creeping below. 

 Leaves subradical, petioled. Flowers small, in often twisted spikes. Sepals 

 subequal, dorsal erect, concave, forming a hood with the narrow petals ; 

 lateral free, erect or spreading, covering the sac of the lip or not. Lip in- 

 ferior, sessile at the base of the column, entire, cymbiform or subsaccate, 

 usually acute, naked or setose within. Column various, top cupular; 

 stigma broad, anticous ; rostellum erect; anther-cells distinct; pollinia 

 granular, caudicled or not, pendulous from the rostellar gland. Species 

 25, temp, and trop, Europe, Asia, 1ST. America, JS". Caledonia, and the 

 Mascarene Islands. 



* Stem tall, stout, 18 in.-2 ft. Leaves large, suberect, petioled, lanceo- 

 late or elliptic lanceolate acuminate. The species of this group are not 

 allied inter se, agreeing only in stature. 



