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CXXXVI. ORCHlDEiE. 
[Aphyllorchis. 
long, yellow dotted purple. Sepals oblong blunt, laterals deflexed. 
Petals narrower lanceolate acute, all straw colour. Lip paler ovate 
obtuse, sides elevate. Hob. In forest, often on jungle tracks. 
Not rare. Singapore, Tanglin; Bukit Timah. Pahang, Kwala 
Tenok, Tahan River; Telom. Perak, Bujong Malacca; Thaiping 
Hills (Fox); Batang Padang (Wray); Tem'engoh ; Gunong Kerbau 
(Robinson); Ulu Selama (Yapp). Penang (Kunstler); near Water¬ 
fall and stone quarry (Haniff). Kedah, Gunong Bintang (Kloss). 
Dislrib. Java, Philippines. 
84. DIDYMOPLEXIS, Griff. 
Succulent leafless saprophytes with cylindric rhizome. Stem 
short, deeply sunk in ground. Flowers small, racemose. Upper 
sepal and petals connate, tips free, lateral sepals connate. Lip 
insert on column-foot short entire. Column 2-winged, arms short 
erect. Anther ovate. Pollinia reniform. Capsule elliptic on 
much lengthened thick pedicel, much longer than stem. Species 
2 or 3, Indo-Malaya, Polynesia. 
(i) D. pallens Griff. Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. iv. 383, t. 17; 
King, Ann. Bot. Card. Calc. viii. 260, pi. 346; Ridl. Mat. i. 206. 
Rhizome -5 to 3 in. long; stem 3 to 6 in. long. Flowers few, 
•25 in. wide, pinkish white. Bracts small ovate. Upper sepal 
oblong-ovate blunt united to shorter petals, lateral sepals united 
half-way. Lip cuneate-oblong papillose. Capsule ;5 to 1*5 in. 
long; pedicel 6 to 12 in. long, succulent. Hob. In thick forests. 
Singapore, Bukit Timah ; Chan Chu Kang, Johor, Gunong Pantai. 
Perak (Scortechini, Wray). Penang, Richmond Pool. Kedah 
Peak. Jalor, Biserat (Gwynne Vaughan). Dislrib. India, Malay 
isles. 
85 . LECANORCHIS, Bl. 
Leafless saprophytes with black wiry stems and long fusiform 
roots. Raceme few-flowered. Flowers thin, the ovary slender, 
terminated by a toothed cup. Sepals and petals sub-equal. Lip 
adnate by its claw to the column, limb dilate. Column dilate 
upwards. Anther oblong, 2-celled terminal. Pollinia 2, elliptic 
granular, no caudicle. Species 3 or 4, Malayan and Japanese. 
(1) L. malaccensis Ridl. Trans. Linn. Soc. ii. 377, t. 5; Ridl. 
Mat. i. 206. 
Stems solitary or several slender branched, 8 to 24 in. tall. 
Flowers 1 in. long, pale flesh colour. Sepals and petals lanceolate- 
spathulate connivent. Lip, limb spathulate bearded, yellow, 
with 2 low keels from base to limb. Column slender, no rostellum. 
Capsule 1 in. long, narrow, terminated by a cup. Hob. In dense 
forests. Singapore, Bukit Timah; Bajau. Johor, Pengaram; 
Bukit Tenabang (Kelsall). Pahang, Tahan River, Malacca, 
Sadanen (Derry); Base of Mt. Ophir. Negri Sembilan, Gunong 
