Pr em, 
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APOSTASIACEA OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. Sul 
This very curious plant creeps on the ground and ascends 
small trees in thick dry woods, much after the manner of 
Claderia. I have only met it in this one spot in the Malay 
Peninsula, but it is abundant there, and occurs also in Borneo. 
Eria (§ Denprontrion) ALBIpo-TomENTOSA, Lindl., Gen. et Sp. 
Orch., p.66. Rhizoma longe repens. Pseudo-bulbi 2 poll. longi, 
ovoidei, compressi, remoti. Folia 3, 5 poll. longa, 14 poll. lata, 
lanceolata, basi attenuata. Scapus 6 poll. longus, lateralis, 
lanuginosus, c. 10 florus, basi a vaginis pluribus lanceolatis 
obtusis tectus. Flores mediocres, explanati. Bracter Janceo- 
latee acuminate, brunew, lanuginose. Sepala reflexa, extra 
albo-lanuginosa, intus glabra, viridia, posticum lanceolatum 
acutum, lateralia late triangularia lanceolata acuta, basi 
rubro-maculata. Petala cum } parte sepali sequilonga, lineari- 
lanceolata, acuta, basi angustata, recurva, viridia. Labelluin 
panduratum ; lobi laterales breves oblongi obtusi, medius late 
oblongus obtusissimus, viridis dense purpureo-maculatus et 
punctatus, apice acutus flavus; callus elevatus; macula brevis 
glabra atropurpurea inter brachia sita. Colwmna longa, gracilis, 
alba; macula rosea in pede sita; stelidia brevia, obtusa, rotun- 
data. <Anthera obtusa, conica, brunea. Dendrobinm albido- 
tomensum, Blume, Bijdr., p. 345. 
Hab. Lankawi Islands: C. Curtis ! v.v. 
Tonka: Native dealers. 
Java! There is a good sketch of this among Zollinger’s 
drawings at Buitenzorg. 
The descriptions of this species are either inadequate to 
determine it by, or are somewhat different from the plant 
which I take to be intended. The figure in Reichenbach’s 
‘Xenia Orchidacea,’ ii. t. 136, taken from one of Kuhl and 
Hasselt’s drawings, is a remarkably bad one, and, indeed, 
hardly recognisable. The flowers are so thickly covered with 
white wool on the backs that the ground colour of the sepals 
cannot be seen; in front, however, they are of a sea-green. 
The lip is also green, but for the greater part so thickly 
spotted and blotched with purple that it appears all purple 
at first sight. In the middle of the lip is a raised V-shaped 
ridge, which is yellow, and in the fork is a raised, polished, 
dark purple spot. The column is very long for the genus. 
I found a plant closely resembling this on Kedah Peak, but 
flowerless. 
