Galeola .] cxxxvi. orchide^:. 20 3 
(a) G. altissima Rchb. fil. Xen. Orch. ii. 77. Haematorchis 
altissima Bl. Rumphia iv. t. 200 b. 
Stem very slender, 30 to 40 ft. long. Panicle large. Flowers 
•5 in. wide, yellow and brown. Sepals and petals linear-oblong 
blunt. Lip boat-shaped, tip round erose waved yellow barred 
purple, a broad pubescent central bar ending in a bilobed woolly 
mass. Capsule slender linear, 8 to 10 in. long. Hab. Less com¬ 
mon than the last. Johor, base of Gunong Pantai; Bukit Murdom 
(Kelsall), Dindings, Lumut. Province Wellesley, Bukit Jura. 
Penang, Telok Bahang (Curtis). Distrib. Java. 
(3) G. javanica Benth. and Hook. Gen. PL iii. 39 °- Cyrtosia 
javanica Bl. Rumphia, i. 199, t. 69. 
A dwarf erect plant, 6 in. to 1 ft. tall, with thick fleshy roots. 
Stems thick reddish, not branched. Flowers on short racemes 
about *5 in. long in the axils of short ovate bracts; pedicels scurfy, 
•25 in. long. Sepals and petals connivent, olive yellow, -6 in. long, 
the sepals oblong, twice as broad as petals and rough scurfy out¬ 
side. Lip dark yellow, shorter than the sepals, concave and slightly 
trilobed, the midlobe broad entire with 3 bosses in the centre below 
the anther, disc villous. Column short, dilate at the top with 
two toothed arms. Fruit sausage-shaped red acute, thick, about 
3 in. long. Hab. In mountain forests. Rare. Selangor, Semang- 
kok Pass. Perak, Ulu Batang Padang (Scortechini, Ridley). 
Distrib. Java. 
81 . APLOSTELLIS, Thouars. 
Tuberous herbs with one usually cordate petioled leaf appearing 
before the flowers. Flowers in a lax raceme or solitary, appearing 
after the disappearance of the leaf. Perianth connivent nodding, 
segments free. Lip entire (or more or less 3-lobed), no callus. 
Column long; anther helmet-shaped. Pollinia 2 or 4 without 
disc or caudicle. Species about 20, Old World tropics and sub¬ 
tropics. 
These plants, originally described under the name of Pogonia, were at first 
separated by some botanists under the name of Nervilia, Gaudichaud 1826, 
but the oldest generic name is Aplostellis of Thouars (1822). 
Leaf large. 
Petiole long; leaf glabrous; raceme many- 
flowered . . • ■ • C 1 ) A. flabelliformis 
Petiole short; leaf velvety, purple; flowers 
1 or ..(2) A. velutina 
Leaf small glabrous; flower 1, small . . . (3) A. punctata 
( 1 ) A. flabelliformis Ridl. Nervilia aragoana Gaud. Freyc. 
Voy. Bot. 422, t. 35. Pogonia flabelliformis Lindl. Gen. and Sp. 
Orch. pi. 415; Ridl. Mai. i. 203. 
Leaf orbicular-cordate, glabrous edged green often with a row 
of black blotches, 4 to 10 in. wide; petiole 4 to 8 in. long, purple. 
Flowering stem 6 to 18 in. long, lax. Bracts linear acuminate, 
