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the anther. Rostellum with two short stout parallel arms. Anther depressed, very 
shortly beaked, covered by the wings of the column; pollinia attached within the 
tip of a linear appendage of the gland, Capsule ellipsoid, about 13 mm. long. Lindl. 
in Journ. Linn, Soc. 1, 186; Griff. Мо. ш, 396; Ic. Pl. Ав. t. 349; Blume 
КІ. Jave 55; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. iii, 723; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. vi, 106; King 
& Pantling in Ann. В. Bot. Gard. Cale. viii, 286, t. 381; Tokutaro Ito in Bot. 
Mag. Tokyo xiv, t. 2. Zeuxine bracteata, Z. brevifolia and Z. robusta Wight Ic. 1724 
bis, 1725, 1726. Z. membranacea Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Oren. 486; in Journ. Linn. 
бос. i, 186; Blume Fl. Тау» 56. Z. Tripleura Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soe. 1/466; 
Z. integerrima, Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 486; Blume Fl. Java 55, t. 19 and 23C ; 
Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. їп, 723. 2. emarginata Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 185. Z. pro- 
cumbens Blume КІ. Jave 56, t. 22, f. З and t. 28B. Tripleura pallida Lindl. in 
Wall. Cat. 7391; Gen. and Sp. Orch. 452.  Adenostylis emarginata and А. integerrima 
Blume Bijdr. 414, t. 17. Plerygodium sulcatum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii, 459, 
Dehra Dun in wet ground, Mackinnon (Duihie’s No. 22977), Gamble No. 26478, 
Below Mussoorie at about 5,000 feet, Proudlock. Flowers during February and March. 
Abundant in grassy places throughout the greater portion of Года. It 
is found 
also in Afghanistan, Ceylon, China, Japan, Java, and in the Philippines. 
39. Anoectochilus Blume. 
Terrestrial herbs with succulent stems decumbent at the base and with stout 
hairy roots. Leaves thick, ovate or lanceolate, with petioles sheathed at the base, 
peduncle and rachis of spike or raceme glandular-pubescent. Sepals free, unequal ; 
the dorsal smaller, ovate, and with the  beaked petals forming a hood over the 
column; lateral pair free or united at the base, spreading, larger than the dorsal. 
Тір adnate to the end of the column by a long-toothed or pectinate rarely entire 
claw, saecate or spurred at the base, the sac produced beyond the bases of the 
sepals or quite covered by them, its interior with two tooth-like or laminar calli; 
terminal lobe with two large diverging lobules. Column short, appendaged in front. 
Anther 9-сейей; rostellum twisted; pollinia 2 and bifid, rarely 4, clavate, lamellate, 
narrowed into pseudo-caudicles, or attached to true caudicles and inserted on a narrow 
gland. Stigmas usually two, one on either side of the rostellum, or united into а 
transverse band on the column beneath it, rarely single and undivided.—Species | 
about 40, natives of India, China and of the Malayan and Pacific Islands. 
Anacrocuitus Вохвовани Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7387. 
Height of plant not exceeding 3 dm. Stem decumbent at the base, Leaves several, 
near the base of the stem, 3 to 6'5 em, long, ovate or ovate-oblong, acute, glabrous, 
shortly stalked, purplish-red with a velvety lustre, tinged along the centre with yellow 
and pink, and veined with yellow. Peduncle glandular-pubescent, bearing three to five 
short oblong acuminate bracts. Аасете much shorter than the peduncle, Flowers two to 
five, about 3 cm. long, resupinate; floral brac about half as long as the sessile cylindric 
ovary, and like the ovary glandular-hairy. Sepals unequal, pale-pink, glandular-hairy, 
dorsal one broadly ovate, acuminate, its apex recurved; the lateral pair oblong, 
Ann. Roy. Bor. Gard., Сатс., Vor. IX. 
