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lanceolate acute long-petioled. The scape is much taller, 
purplish green; it bears nine or ten distant flowers. The 
sepals and petals are pale yellow veined with purple. The lip 
is buff and rose, dotted (especially towards the apex) with 
darker} rose. The spur is short and clubbed, orange in colour. 
The column is narrowed at the base and widened above, buff 
thickly spotted with rose. The anther has the apex obscurely 
three-lobed, the front margin retuse. The pollinia are eight, 
the four upper oblong oblique lamelliform, the four lower 
smaller ovate flattened. There is a small retuse disc. 
TAaINIA LATILINGUA, Hook. f., Fl. Brit. Ind., v. p. 822, Ic. Pl., 
t. 2093. 
Hab. Perak, Scortechini. 
T. ATROPURPUREA, idl. Terrestris. Rhizoma repens; 
radices crasse. Folia ovata, profunde cordata, subacuta, 
herbacea; petiolus 4 poll. longus, crassus; lamina 6 poll longa, 
4 poll. lata. Scapus 1 ped. longus, basi a vaginis membranaceis 
tectus, superne laxe racemosus. flores majusculi, dissiti, 
purpurei. Bractee } poll. longs, lineares, acuminate ; pedicelli 
(ovario incluso) bracteé breviores. Sepalum posticum 4 poll. 
longum, 58; poll. latum, lanceolatum acutum, lateralia basi in 
mentum # poll. longum producta. Petala cum sepalis equi- 
longa, paullo latiora. Labellum { poll. longum, 4 poll. latum, 
ovatum acutum, a nervis 8 paullo elevatis percursum ; carine 
2 parallels, lamelliformes, inter has nervus carnosus lamelli- 
formis minus elevatus. Columna } poll. longa, erecta; pes 
longior ; ale majuscule, recte ; clinandrium ovatum, margine 
postice elevato; rostellum latum, ovatum, obtusum. Stigma 
ovatum, margine inferiore elevato. Nephelaphyllum grandi- 
florum, Hook. f., Fl. Brit. Ind., vi. p. 192. 
Hab. Perak: Maxwell’s Hill, 2,000 feet alt.; growing among 
dead leaves ! 
This was described from two drawings, one by Scortechini, 
the other by Kunstler. The former, evidently unfinished and 
without details, I have seen; and itis clearly intended for the 
plant above described, which was sent me in flower by 
Mr. Curtis, and of which I have also twice collected living 
plants on the banks of the road leading to the top of the Larut 
Hill range from Thaiping. Unfortunately the only flowers I 
have seen were very withered, and had lost their pollen. It is 
