PODOCHILUS. 245 
Sikkim, at elevations of about 5,000 feet; flowering in June; Pantling No. 165. 
A very inconspicuous species, remarkable for the curious retroflexed apical spicule- 
like appendage of the lip. The flowers open singly, they are green in colour. 
PLATE 324.—Teniophyllum retro-spiculatum, King and Pantling. А plant growing on a tree-branch, 
of natural size, Fig. la flower, 2 side view of apex of ovary, column and lip, 3 lip with its spur, front 
view, 4 and 5 anther as seen from above and from below, 6 pollinia; ай enlarged. 
2. TÆNIOPHYLLUM CREPIDIFORME, King and Pantling. 
A minute leafless plant with comparatively large spreading roots. Raceme erect, "35 
in. long. Flowers “15 in. long, distichous, opening singly; dract ovate, minute. Sepals 
sub-equal, ovate, blunt, concave, incurved; the lateral pair attached to the sides of the 
column. Petals shorter than the sepals, lanceolate. Lip sessile on the column, forming 
a roundish cup with entire edges; spur dilated, horizontal, pilose just inside its mouth, 
about as long as the lip. Column very short. Anther thin, with a slightly deflexed fleshy 
lip. РоПітіа four, broadly ovoid, attached by pairs to a single thread-like caudicle ; 
gland ovate. Ovary long, sub-sessile; fruit 1 in. long, cylindric. Sarcochilus crepidiformis, 
King and Pantling in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, Vol. LXIV, Pt. 2, 340. 
Sikkim, in tropical valleys; flowering in September; Pantling No. 193. 
. The sepals and petals of this curious little plant are greenish, the lip is white, and 
the stigma has purple margins. It is named from the resemblance of the combined lip 
and spur to a slipper or last, 
Pirate 325.—Teniophyllum crepidiforme, King and Pantling. А plant growing on а branch of a 
tree, of natural size. Fig. 1 bract, ovary and flower, 2 part of ovary, column and lip, side view, 3 lip 
and portion of spur, 4 column and apex of ovary, anther (а), rostellum (r), stigma (s), 5 anther, lower 
surface, 6 pollinia; all enlarged. 
59. Podochilus, Blume. 
Stems tufted, usually slender, erect or diffuse. Leaves numerous, uniform, flat; or 
equitant and laterally compressed. Inflorescence terminal or leaf-opposed. Flowers minute, 
spicate or racemose, bracts persistent. Sepals and petals connivent or erecto-patent ; 
the lateral sepals united at the base to form a wide sac or false mentum. Lip clawed, 
jointed to the produced foot of the column, sometimes with long basal lobes, ? mobile. 
Column very short; rostellum terminal, triangular, erect, bifid. Anther dorsal; pollinia 
four, in two pairs; each pair enclosed in a funnel-shaped cup attached to a short free 
caudicle, the caudicles inserted on a single small or large gland, Species about 12, 
Indo-Malayan. 
Leaves equitant, apex of lip bifid . . . . . + + + 2 P. cultratus. 
Leaves not equitant, apex of lip entire, acute . . . . . . . . 2. P. Манаты. 
1. Ророснп,08 cuLTRATUS, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7336. 
Stems 6 in. long, clothed throughout with equitant flattened falcately lanceolate 
acute leaves :65 in. long and :25 in. broad. Raceme slender, terminal, about “5 in. 
long, 2- to 4-flowered, often producing one or two roots at the base. Flowers °2 in. 
long ; floral bract broadly ovate, cuspidate, about equal in length to the sessile ovary 
