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Dendrocolla. ] CXXXVI. ORCHIDEA':. 189<br />
midlobe fleshy ovate blunt, a woolly papilla at base. Hab. On<br />
Dacrydium trees at 2500 ft. altitude. Penang Hill (Curtis).<br />
(8) D. brachyglottis Rtdl. Sarcochilus brachyglottis Hook.<br />
fil. Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc. v. 42, 63. Thrixspermum brachyglottis<br />
Ridl. Mat. i. 182.<br />
Stem short. Leaves long oblanceolate acutely bifid, 4 to 8 in.<br />
long, I to 1'5 in. wide. Scape I in. long; raceme not thickened;<br />
bracts small ovate, not distichous. Flowers white, '5 in. wide.<br />
Sepals lanceolate sub-acute mucronulate on back. Petals lanceolate<br />
smaller. Lip not half as long, narrowed at the base, dilate saccate<br />
forwards, obcuneate with a fleshy terminal linear lobe. Column<br />
short thick footless with broad triangular acuminate arms. Anther<br />
beaked. Hab. Perak (Kunstler) drawing only.<br />
I am very dubIOUS as to which genus this should be referred to, having<br />
seen no specimen.<br />
(9) D. carinatifolia Ridl. JOUY1t. Linn. Soc. xxxii. 382; Mat. i.<br />
186. Sarcochilus carinatifolius Rtdl. Journ. As. Soc. 1891, p. 136.<br />
Stem 6 in. long, broad fiat. Leaves fieshy oblong blunt, 2 in.<br />
long, '5 to I in. wide. Peduncles slender, 6 in. long. Racemes<br />
I in. long, slightly thickened. Bracts rather distant lanceolate.<br />
Flowers '25 in. wide, white. Sepals lanceolate acuminate, laterals<br />
enlarged at base. Petals linear-Ianceolate. Lip saccate at base,<br />
side-lobes long linear acuminate, midlobe shorter, ovate, a blunt<br />
round callus, white, a yellow spot outside base. Capsule linear<br />
cylindric, 3 in. long. Hab. lohor, Kwala Sedili Besar and Pulau<br />
Aor (Feilding). Dtstrtb. Christmas Isle.<br />
(10) D. psiloglottis Ridl. Mat. i. 187. Sarcochilus psiloglottis<br />
Ridl. Trans. Linn. Soc. iii. 372.<br />
Stem 1'5 in. long. Leaves lorate, 2 in. long, '25 in. wide,<br />
bilobed blunt. Peduncles 3 in. long; racemes '25 in. long, not<br />
thickened. Bracts lanceolate acuminate recurved. Flowers '25 in.<br />
wide. Upper sepallanceolate acute, laterals triangular acute, pale<br />
yellow, with an orange spot at base. Petals sub-spathulate yellow.<br />
Lip, side-lobes long linear white, midlobe blunt recurved, fleshy,<br />
white with orange central spot. Capsule cylindric, 2 in. long.<br />
Hab. Rare. On trees. Pahang, Pekan (Ridley).<br />
, 74. ACRIOPSIS, Reinwdt.<br />
Pseudobulbous epiphytes. Leaves linear or oblong articulate.<br />
Scap_e racemose or panicles slender, lateral. Flowers small pink<br />
and white or yellow. Sepals and petals narrow spreading, lateral<br />
sepals sometimes connate. Lip spurless, adnate to column halfway<br />
up, 3-lobed, centraL callus. Column tall arched hooded curved,<br />
arms long slender, porrect. Anther ovate. Pollinia 2, narrow, a<br />
long slender caudicle and very small disc. Rostellum ovate entire.
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