82 oxLfiii. OROHiDB^. (J. D. Hooker.) IPodochilus. 



8. P. lucescens, Blume Biidr. 295, t. 12 ; Rumphiai-v. 43 {in Obs.) ; 

 stem slender erect, leaves ^j in. elliptic- or linear-oblong obtuse or apicu- 

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

 or oblong obtuse, base sagittate. Lindl. Gen. & 8p.- Orchid. 234 ; BeicM.f. 

 in Bonpland. v. (1857) 41 ; Of. Bot. Samh. 45 ; in Trans. Linn. Boa. xxx. 145.- 



TenassebiMj at Mergui, Selfer, Parish. — Distkib. Sumatra, Java, Borneo. 



Stems 4r-?i in., rigid. Leaves black when dry, opaque, many-nerved. Spike 

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

 -^ in. diam. 



9. P. a'cicularis, HooJc. f. Ic. Plant, ined. ; stems densely tufted 

 filiform, leaves ^— J in. aoioular, spike very short 3-4-fld., lip broadly 

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

 each side. 



Penang, Maingay (Keui Distrib. 1653/2). Pehak, Scorfechini, &c. 



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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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



73. APPENDICUIiA, Blume. 



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

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

 opposed ; flowers minute, raoemed 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. Gupsule 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. 



t JAnib of lip with a large callus on the disk. 



1. M,. bifaria, Lindl. in BooTc. 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. Hongk. 358 ; Walp. Sep. vi. 893. A. reduphcata, Beichi.f. in 

 at. Bot. Samh. 45. 



Caohae, Keenan. Tenasserim, Selfer. Sin&apoeb, Uidley. — Distbib. China, 

 Borneo ? 



Stem 10-2i in., simple. Leaves often apicnlate between the obtuse apical teeth. 

 Haeemes 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 j 



