224 cXXX.vi. orchide/E. f Hylophila. 
numerous white, glabrous or nearly. Sepals -25 in. long. Petals 
oblique ovate. Lip sac nearly globose. Hab. Rare. Perak 
(Scortechini); Bujong Malacca (Curtis). Dislrib. Java. 
102. LEPIDOGYNE, Bl. 
A large stout plant with thick creeping stem and long sessile 
linear acuminate leaves. Scape tall covered with sheaths. Spike 
long and dense with long linear bracts. Flowers small pink. Upper 
sepal adnate to petals. Lip saccate, base adnate to column with 
several short processes inside, side-lobes short, terminal lobe linear. 
Column short; rostellum deeply bifid, lobes linear. Anther elongate 
lanceolate acuminate. Pollinia pear-shaped narrowed into cau- 
dicles, a narrow linear disc. Species 3, Malayan. 
(1) L. longifolia Bl. Orch. Arch. Ind . 94, pi. 25; Ridl. Mat. i. 
224. 
Leaves 12 to 18 in. long, 2 in. wide. Scape nearly 3 ft. long, 
spicate portion 1 ft. long. Flowers very numerous. Sepals 
lanceolate acuminate, -25 in. long. Capsule elliptic, -5 in. long. 
Hab. Local in woods. Johor, Pulau Kukub in the peat-woods 
(Ridley). Penang, Mt. Elvira (Curtis). Distrib. Lingga, Sumatra, 
Java, Philippines. 
In the peat-woods the ground is completely composed for a depth of 
20 ft. or more of decaying leaves and sticks with hardly a trace of mineral 
matter. 
103. STEREOSANDRA, Bl. 
Leafless slender saprophyte with swollen tuberous rhizome. 
Flowers secund pendulous. Bracts linear-lanceolate. Pedicels 
short. Sepals and petals similar connivent. Lip as long and similar, 
entire with two round cushions at base. Column very short. 
Anther large. Pollinia elongate pyriform. No rostellum. Stigma 
transversely oblong on a distinct short style. Capsule elliptic. 
Species 1 or 2, Malayan, Siam. 
(1) S. javanica Bl. Mus. Bot. 2, p. 176; Orch. Arch. Ind. 30, t. 
10, fig. 3 , t- ii, fig. 9 - . (Fig- 178, p. 225.) 
Rhizome *5 to 75 in. long, *36 in. through, ringed. Stem 15 in. 
I° n g, P a le with 4 or 5 sheaths. Flowers about 10 distant on purple 
pedicels. Sepals and petals *35 in. long, acuminate. All white 
with black-violet tips. Lip white, edges sinuate and tip deep black- 
violet. Anther with 2 violet blotches. Capsule elliptic, *25 in. 
long. Hab. In woods very scarce and difficult to find. Singapore, 
Bukit Panjang on banks of a stream. Johor, near Castlewood 
(Ridley). Negri Sembilan (Williams). Perak, Temengoh. Penang 
Hill (Curtis). Distrib. Malay Isles. 
104. CRYPTOSTYLIS, R. Br. 
Terrestrial herbs with woolly roots. Leaves basal, 1 or 2, long- 
petioled. Scape lateral tall racemose at tip; flowers many. Sepals 
