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CXXXVI. ORCHIDEJl. 
green and purple. All free to near base. Lip base narrow, sides 
involute cuneate above, 3-lobed, side-lobes broad blunt, midlobe 
narrow straight blunt, orange yellow. Column foot long. Rostel- 
lum broad, entire. Capsule elliptic, 1 in. long. Hab. In rotten 
trees in dense forest. Rare. Singapore, Bukit Timali; Pulau 
Damar; Selitar. Johor, Sungei Tebrau (Ridley). 
(2) G. Hasselti Bl. Mus. Bo/. Lugd. Bat. ii. 175; Orch. Arch, 
hid. 145, t. 52, figs. 5 to 8. 
A small plant, 6 in. to 2 ft. tall (Blume). Bracts ovate-lanceo¬ 
late. Flowers 3 or 4 fuscous outside, yellow inside, broadly cam- 
panulate, -5 in. long. Sepals and petals all adnate. Lip free, 
claw narrow, limb sub-orbicular, tip truncate. Hab. Perak (a 
drawing by Scortechini). Distrib. Java. 
88. CORYMBIS, Thouars. 
Tall leafy plants. Leaves broad plicate. Flowers large, white, 
in short sessile axillary panicles. Sepals and petals linear-spathu- 
late at first cohering with spreading tips. Lip linear-spathulate 
erect from column base. Column as long as petals, terete, with 
2 ears at top. Anther lanceolate acuminate. Pollinia 2, pyriform 
narrow on a linear caudicle, disc ovate. Rostellum shortly bifid. 
Capsule fusiform. Species 5 or 6, nearly all very closely allied 
and possibly all one species, Africa, Indo-Malaya, Australia. 
Plants 6 to 10 ft. tall; leaves elliptic-lanceolate 
large; flowers numerous 
(1) C. longiflora 
Plant 1 to 2 ft. tall; leaves ovate, much smaller; 
flowers 2 or 3.(2) C. brevistylis 
(1) C. longiflora Hook. fit. F.B.I. vi. 92; Ridl. Mat. i. 208. 
C. rhytidocarpa Hook. fd. l.c. 
Stems 6 to 10 ft. tall, wiry, slender. Leaves broad elliptic- 
lanceolate to ovate acuminate, 2 in. long, 4 in. wide, many-nerved. 
Panicle 3 in. long. Flowers white, fragrant, 2 in. long. Bracts 
ovate acuminate, *25 in. long, lower ones *5 in. long. Petals and 
sepals linear-spathulate, edges of petals crisped. Lip spathulate, 
claw tubular. Capsule sub-triangular, 1 in. long, edges waved. 
Hab. Common in forests. Singapore, Pulau Ubin; Chan Chu Kang. 
Malacca, Selandor (Cantley). Pahang, Labong Endau (Evans). 
Selangor, Batu Caves. Dindings, Gunong Tungui. Perak, Thai- 
ping Hills (Kunstler); Batang Padang (Kunstler); Kurau (Curtis); 
Temengoh. Pulau Adang; Lankawi, Gunong Rayah (Haniff). 
(2) C. brevistylis Hook. fit. F.B.I. vi. 91; Ridl. Mat. i. 
208. 
Stem slender, 1 to 2 ft. tall. Leaves elliptic-ovate, base narrowed 
shortly acuminate; nerves slender, 9; 6 in. long, 3-5 in. wide. 
Racemes 2 in. long with few distant flowers. Bracts lanceolate 
acuminate, longest -15 in. long. Fruit (unripe) smooth cylindric. 
