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a handsome plant, but very difficult of culture. The petioles 
and scape are purple, the flowers of a dark pink, the tip of the 
lip (which is more fleshy than the rest) being of a deep maroon. 
It cannot, I think, be referred to Nephelaphyllum, which has 
a spur to the lip and not a mentum formed by the lateral 
sepals adnate to the long foot of the column. It seems to me 
clearly to belong to the genus Tainia. 
In removing it to this genus, I have not retained the specific 
name grandiflora, because the flowers are really much smaller 
than those of T. speciosa, Blume, and T'. Maingayi, Hook. f. 
TAINIA spEcIOsA, Blume, Bijdr., p. 354. 
Hab. Malacca : Mt. Ophir! 
Perak : Scortechint. 
Kedah: Kedah Peak, abundant ! 
This grows in dry woods, in the hill districts, at about 
3,000 feet altitude. Maingay gives “flowers white, tails 
slightly yellow.” But in the plants which I have seen the 
sepals and petals are greenish yellow with red lines, the lip 
bright yellow, with some red streaks on the lateral lobes. The 
anther horns are very short and violet. 
T. Matneayi, Hook. f., Fl. Brit. Ind., v. p. 822, e¢ Ic. Pl., 
t. 2094. 
Hab. Penang: Maingayi. 
Kedah: Kedah Peak! 
The Kedah plant apparently is this species, but the buds are 
too young to make out clearly. The flowers appeared to be 
deep purple. 
CHRYSOGLOSSUM, Blume. 
C. vittosum, Blume, Bijdr., p. 338, t. 17. 
Hab. Perak: Scortechini. 
IT have only seen a sketch of this among Scortechini’s 
drawings. 
PLOCOGLOTTIS, Blume. 
The peculiar form of the pollinia in this genus has caused 
some doubt as to where in the order it should be placed; in 
Bentham and Hooker’s ‘Genera Plantarum’ it is doubtfully 
