Hetceria.] 
CXXXVI. ORCHIDEjE. 
223 
1 in. wide; petioles 1*5 in. long. Peduncle 1 ft. long; raceme 6 in. 
long, lax, white pubescent. Flowers greenish, hardly more than 
•08 in. long; pedicel and ovary -25 in. long. Sepals ovate blunt 
glabrous. Petals narrow linear, tip dilate. Lip oblong-ovate 
saccate with many fleshy clubbed processes in sac, and a fleshy 
wart on tip. Hab. Mountains. Rare. Pahang, Gunong Tahan 
at 5000 to 6000 ft. altitude (Robinson). 
(8) H. parvifolia Ridl. Journ . Roy. /Is. Soc. S. By. v. 39, p. 87; 
Mat. i. 222. 
Stem 2 in. tall. Leaves lanceolate acute sub-sessile, 1 in. long, 
•25 in. wide; sheaths *25 in. long. Scape slender pubescent, 5 
to 6 in. long; raceme 2 in. long. Flowers very small, -12 in. long. 
Upper sepal adnate to petals ovate acuminate pubescent, laterals 
lanceolate acute. Lip, base saccate, with minute cylindric processes 
inside, lanceolate acute, sides of tip involute forming a tube. Anther 
with a long narrow beak. Rostellar arms nearly as long linear 
truncate. Hab. Rare. Penang Hill (Ridley). 
101 . HYLOPHILA, Lindl. 
Terrestrial herbs with long creeping stem. Leaves many, 
lanceolate petioled. Spike peduncled rather lax of many small 
flowers, pubescent. Upper sepal hooded attached to petals, laterals 
broad gibbous, forming a mentum. Lip a sub-globose sac with a 
small linear limb, and a callus in base of sac. Column very short, 
no arms. Anther long beaked. Pollinia pear-shaped, caudicle 
tapering to disc. Rostellum very long bifid. Species 4, Malay 
isles to New Guinea and Philippines. 
Spike long slender ; flowers small . . . . (1) H. mollis 
Spike dense subsessile ; flowers -25 in. long . . (2) H. lanceolata 
(1) H. mollis Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. PL 490; Bl. Orch. 
Arch. Ind. 115, pis. 35, 36F; Ridl. Mat. i. 223. 
Rhizome -long, creeping ascending, 6 to 8 in. tall. Leaves 
numerous thin lanceolate acute polished green, 4 in. long, 1-25 in. 
wide; petioles 2 in. long. Peduncle 15 ft. tall or less, spicate part 
6 in. long. Flowers small, all sticky pubescent green. Bracts 
shorter than ovary, -25 in. long. Sepals -12 in. long, upper one 
saccate beaked, laterals ovate oblique. Lip globose saccate. 
Capsule elliptic sessile, *25 in. long. Hab. In wet forests, sometimes 
very abundant. Singapore (Wallich); Teban; Rukit Timah; 
Toa Payoh. Malacca (Griffith). Perak, Thaiping Hills (Kunstler). 
Distrib. Sumatra. 
(2) H. lanceolata Hook. F.B.I. vi. no; Ridl. Mat. i. 223. 
Dicerostylis lanceolata Bl. Orch. Arch. Ind. 116, pi. 38, fig. 1. 
Stem stout ascending, 6 in. tall. Leaves narrow lanceolate, 
caudate acuminate waved, 4 to 5 in. long, 1-25 to 1-5 in. wide; 
petioles 1 in. long. Spike 3 in. long, dense, nearly sessile. Flowers 
