110 oxLYiii. ORCHiDBai. (J. D. Hooker.) IZeuxine. 



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 proiecting 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 stigmatio lobe on 

 each side ; anther sunk in the column, lanceolate j poUinia narrowly clavate. — A 

 very singular plant. 



92. KVI.OPKXZiA« Lindl. 



Terrestrial herbs; stem elongate, creeping. I/ea«e*petioIed, obliquely ovate- 

 lanceolate. Flowers small, spioate, subglobose ; periantb horizontal, oon- 

 nivent. Sepals aoaminate, 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. K. mollis, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7396; &en. & Sp. Orchid. 490; 

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

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



SiNOAPOBE, Wallich. Malacca, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 5337). Pbbak, Scar- 

 techini. — Distbib. Sumatra. 



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

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

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

 acute. 



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

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

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



Pbbak, ScortecJiini. — Distbib. Java. 



A much stouter plant than J. moZKs ; 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-nerved, petals dimidiately obovate, 3-nerved. Column with a minute subulate 

 process on each side below the stigma, 



93. eOODYERA, Br. 



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

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

 snbequal, 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, N. America, N. 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. 



