THE FLORA OF THE MALAY· PENINSULA

224 CXXXVI. ORCHIDE.£. [Hylophila.
numerous white, glabrous or nearly. Sepals '25 in. long. Petals
oblique ovate. Lip sac nearly globose. Hab. Rare. Perak
(Scortechini); Bujong Malacca (Curtis). Distrib. 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 caudicles,
a narrow linear disc. Species 3, Malayan.
(I) L. longifolia Bl. Orch. Arch. Ind. 94, pl. 25; Ridl. Mat. i.
224· Leaves 12 to 18 in. long, 2 in. wide. Scape nearly 3 ft. long,
spicate portion I 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). Distnb. Lingga, Sumatra,
Java, Phtlippines.
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 mmeral
matter.
103. STEREOSANDRA, Bl.
Leafless slender saprophyte with swollen tuberous rhizome.
Flowers secund pendulous. Bracts linear-Ianceolate. 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 I or 2, Malayan, Siam.
(I) 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 IS in.
long, pale 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 blackviolet.
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, I or 2, longpetioled.
Scape lateral tall racemose at tip; flowers many. Sepals