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Hetceria.] CXXXVI. ORCHIDElE. 223<br />
I in. wide; petioles 1'5 in. long. Peduncle I ft. long; raceme 6 in.<br />
long, lax, white pubescent. Flowers greenish, hardly more than<br />
'08 in. long; pedicel and ovary '25 in. long. Sepals ovate blunt<br />
glabrous. Petals narrow linear, tip dilate. Lip oblong-ovate<br />
saccate with many fleshy clubbed processes in sac, and a fleshy<br />
wart on tip. Hab. Mountains. Rare. Pahang, Gunong Tahan<br />
at 5000 to 6000 ft. altitude (Robinson).<br />
(8) H. parvifolia Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. v. 39, p. 87;<br />
Mat. i. 222.<br />
Stem 2 in. tall. Leaves lanceolate acute sub-sessile, I in. long,<br />
'25 in. wide; sheaths '25 in. long. Scape slender pubescent, 5<br />
to 6 in. long; raceme 2 in. long. Flowers very small, '12 in. long.<br />
Upper sepal adnate to petals ovate acuminate pubescent, laterals<br />
lanceolate acute. Lip, base saccate, with minute cylindric processes<br />
inside, lanceolate acute, sides of tip involute forming a tube. Anther<br />
with a long narrow beak. Rostellar arms nearly as long linear<br />
truncate. Hab. Rare. Penang Hill (Ridley).<br />
101. HYLOPHILA, Lindl.<br />
Terrestrial herbs with long creeping stem. Leaves many,<br />
lanceolate petioled. Spike peduncled rather lax of many small<br />
flowers, pubescent. Upper sepal hooded attached to petals, laterals<br />
broad gibbous, forming a mentum. Lip a sub-globose sac with a<br />
small linear limb, and a callus in base of sac. Column very short,<br />
no arms. Anther long beaked. Pollinia pear-shaped, caudicle<br />
tapering to disc. Rostellum very long bifid. Species 4, Malay<br />
isles to New Guinea and Philippines.<br />
Spike long slender; flowers small. .. (r) B. mollis<br />
Spike dense subsessile; flowers '25 in long. (2) B.lanceolata<br />
(I) H. mollia Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. Pl. 490; Bl. Orch.<br />
Arch. Ind. lI5, pis. 35, 36F; Rzdl. Mat. i. 223.<br />
Rhizome long, creeping ascending, 6 to 8 in. tall. Leaves<br />
numerous thin lanceolate acute polished green, 4 in. long, 1'25 in.<br />
wide; petioles 2 in. long. Peduncle 1'5 ft. tall or less, spicate part<br />
6 in. long. Flowers small, all sticky pubescent green. Bracts<br />
shorter than ovary, '25 in. long. Sepals '12 in. long, upper one<br />
saccate beaked, laterals ovate oblique. Lip globose saccate.<br />
Capsule elliptic sessile, '25 in. long. Hab. In wet forests, sometimes<br />
very abundant. Singapore (Wallich); Teban; Bukit Timah;<br />
Toa Payoh. Malacca (Griffith). Perak, Thaiping Hills (Kunstler).<br />
Distrib. Sumatra.<br />
(2) H. lanceolata Hook. F.B.I. vi. lIO; Ridl. Mat. i. 223.<br />
Dicerostylis lanceolata Bl. Orch. Arch. Ind. lI6, pl. 38, fig. I.<br />
Stem stout ,ascending, 6 in. tall. Leaves narrow lanceolate,<br />
caudate acuminate waved, 4 to 5 in. long, 1'25 to 1'5 in. wide;<br />
petioles I in. long. Spike 3 in. long, dense, nearly sessile. Flowers
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