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194 CXXXVI. ORCHIDElE. [Podochilus.<br />
elliptic, '25 in. long or more, '12 in. wide, tip bluntly unequally<br />
bilobed. Racemes sub-terminal, '5 in. long, slender. Flowers<br />
minute white. Sepals and petals lanceolate blunt; mentum very<br />
short. Lip 3-lobed, side-lobes broad round, midlobe linear<br />
oblong with 3 raised ribs. Anther ovate blunt, pollinia 4, pyriform,<br />
caudicles calyptrate. Rostellum 3-lobed. Hab. Not common.<br />
Johor, Ulu Kahang (Holttum). Penang, Waterfall (Curtis).<br />
Lankawi, Gunong Raya at 2500 ft. altitude (Curtis); Dayong<br />
Bunting (Robinson). Pulau Adang (Ridley). Distrib. Tenasserim,<br />
Siam, Borneo, Java.<br />
77. APPENDICULA, Bl.<br />
Epiphytes occasionally on rocks. Stems erect, leafy terete or<br />
flat. Leaves distichous elliptic to lanceolate unequally bilobed,<br />
thinly coriaceous articulate with sheath. Flowers small in axillary<br />
and sub-termi,nal racemes. Bracts usually persistent and often<br />
reflexed. Upper sepallanceolate or ovate, laterals prolonged below<br />
into a mentum. Petals smaller. Lip base saccate adnate to<br />
column foot, usually quite entire, a callus usually horse-shoeshaped<br />
at base of lip. Column short thick, arms small, foot long or<br />
short. Anther ovate beaked. Pollinia 4 to 8, pear-shaped narrowed<br />
to a small disc. Rostellum ovate-Ianceolate bifid. Capsule<br />
small elliptic. Species about 40, Indo-Malayan.<br />
Stem flattened winged . . • . . (I) A. anceps<br />
Stems terete; racemes lax aXlllacy or subterminal.<br />
Leaves oblong broad blunt.<br />
Stem long pendulous; racemes long; lip<br />
spathulate . . (2) A. purpurasCeDS<br />
Stems erect stiff; racemes short.<br />
Flowers glabrous; hp with a callus.<br />
Callus square<br />
Callus hooked . . . . .<br />
Callus conic; leaves thick deep shining<br />
green . . . .<br />
Flowers hairy; leaves small close. .<br />
No callus; flowers glabrous; leaves oblong,<br />
'5 in. wide . . . . .<br />
(3) A. cornuta<br />
(4) A. UDcata<br />
(5) A. luclda<br />
(6) A. muricata<br />
(7) A. re1lexa<br />
No callus; flowery small glabrous; leaves very<br />
narrow linear. . . . . (8) A. rupestris<br />
Stems elongate sometimes branched; leaves<br />
usually narrow, I in. long or more with<br />
reflexed bracts.<br />
Leaves close-set oblong; lip ovate acute . . (9) A. deDSifoUa<br />
Leaves close-set oblong; hp hmb crescentshaped.<br />
. " (10) A. robusta<br />
Leaves narrow lanceolate rather thin.<br />
Lip oblong pandurate (II) A. pendula<br />
Lip cuneate. tip trilobed. . . . (12) A. lancifoUa<br />
Inflorescence terminal; bracts large, foliaceous,<br />
white, longer than flowers; bracts<br />
white . (13) A. torta
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