124 cxxxvi. ORCHiDEiE. [. Pkaius. 
long. Scape 2 to 4 ft. long. Flowers 4 to 5 in. across. Sepals 
and petals lanceolate acute, white outside, brown (or orange) within. 
Lip convolute, midlobe lanceolate-ovate acute crisped, white, inside 
rose pink, spur -25 in. long. Column white. Capsule 2 in. long. 
Hab. Woods in the low country, not very common and nearly 
always self-fertilised, never opening the flowers. Malacca, Ayer 
Keroh; Bukit Sadanen (Derry); Pengkalan Kumpas, Linggi River 
(Williams). Selangor, Kwala Lumpur; Kedah, Bukit Bintang 
(Kloss). Disirib. Indo^Malaya, Polynesia, run wild in Jamaica and 
Panama. 
A very favourite plant in cultivation. 
(2) Ph. callosus Lindl. Gen. and Sp . Orch. PI. 128; Blume, 
Orch. Ind. 4, t. 2; Rchb. fil. Xen. Orch. ii. t. 122; Ridl. Mat. i. 119. 
P. Kuhlii Rchb. Xenia ii. t. 122, fig. 122. 
Pseudobulbs short. Leaves elongate-lanceolate acuminate, 2 to 
4 ft. long, 5 in. wide. Scape 3 ft. tall. Flowers 4 in. wide. Sepals 
oblong or linear-oblong, blunt pinkish or pure white behind, brown 
in front. Petals narrower. Lip convolute, yellow, midlobe round 
bilobed with 2 calli at base, pink, spur yellow. Hab. In dense 
hill-forests at 3000 to 5000 ft. altitude. Perak, Thaiping Hills 
abundant; Gunong Kerbau (Robinson). Distrib. Java. 
33 . LIMATODIS, Bl. 
Stems erect, stiff angled, leafy above. Leaves broad ovate. 
Racemes short few-flowered, axillary from sheaths below the leaves. 
Flowers rather large, white or yellow. Sepals lanceolate. Petals 
similar but broader. Lip not convolute entire spurred. Column 
rather short and broad. Anther ovate beaked. Pollinia 8 on an 
ovate disc. Rostellum long acute. Species 4 or more, Malay 
Peninsula and islands. The genus was referred by Blume and all 
following him to Phaius , but appears to be quite distinct. Lindley’s 
genus Limatodes is a mixture of this with some species of Calanlhe 
and Preptanthe. 
(1) L. pallidus Ridl. Phaius pallidus Ridl. Joarn. Linn. Soc. 
xxxiii. 313; Mat. i. 119. 
Stems 2 to 3 ft. tall, 4-angled, base with sheaths only, upper 
part leafy. Leaves ovate acuminate, 9 in. long, 3 in. wide. 
Racemes 2 to 4 in. long from the stem below the leaves. Flowers 
7 or 8 in a raceme 2 in. across; pedicels 1 in. long. Sepals lanceolate 
acute yellowish. Petals wider, white, violet-spotted. Lip oblong- 
lanceolate sub-acute, orange-yellow with red spots in lines, spur 
•5 in. long, cylindric acuminate, pink. Hab. Mountain forests at 
about 3000 ft. altitude. Pahang, Tahan woods. Selangor, Bukit 
Hitam (Kelsall). Perak, Thaiping Hills (Curtis). Distrib. Sumatra. 
This is possibly L. punctata Lindl., only known from a drawing by Vries, 
from Sumatra. 
