APOSTASIACEZ OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 359 
This very curious little plant was figured and described from 
dried specimens, and, as the flowers are so minute and difficult 
of analysis when dry, additional remarks are requisite to 
explain their structure. The flowers are snow white, turning 
rather bright yellow before withering, and have the scent of 
cucumbers, so common in Saccolabium. They are, when alive, 
hardly as pubescent as shown in the ‘Icones’ ; In fact, they are 
rather minutely papillose. The sepals have a very faint violet 
streak on the outside. The lip has been flattened out in the 
figure above quoted. During life the sides are raised and 
concave, forming the lateral lobes; the “fleshy subcordate 
appendage” is the median lobe (epichil). There are no calli to 
the lip, but the entrance to the spur, which is full of nectar, is 
partially closed by the long beak of the anther and the viscid 
disc of the pollinia and the rostellam. The column is bright 
green, and the anther yellow. The latter is rounded on the 
top, and in front ends in a long, broad beak abruptly upcurved. 
The pollinia are globose, on a linear pedicel, which stands at an 
obtuse angle, with an equally long linear disc which, indeed, is 
prolonged beyond the insertion posticously as well as anticously. 
When the pollinia are removed from the column, the pedicel 
bends gradually down till it lies flat in the same plane with the 
disc. The rostellar arms are very long and drawn out into fine 
points, and stand nearly erect, being bent up at an angle with 
the base. The clinandrium is fairly deep, and has two little 
dentiform stelidia, one on each side. From its structure I 
imagine this flower must be fertilized by some small species of 
moth. 
Sacconasium (§ MicrantH#) miseruM, Ridl., sp. nova. Cau li 
ultra-pedalis, 1 poll. crassus, rigidus. Folia 5 poll. longa, 4 poll. 
lata, patentia vel recurva, coriacea, inwequaliter biloba ; vagine 
2 poll. longs, ore oblique. Racemi brevissimi, 3-4-flori, e 
basibus vaginarum protrusi. Flores minimi, flavescentes. 
Sepala elliptico-ovata, vel ovata, lateralia paullo majora. Petala 
sepalis minora, lanceolato-oblonga. Labelli lobi laterales parvi, 
oblongo-quadrati truncati erecti oblongi, medius ovalis obtusus 
porrectus basi a callo minuto ornatus; calcar breve, incurvum 
conicum, obtusum. Columna brevis, crassa; stelidia brevia, 
Ovalia, obtusa, Anthera depressa. 
Hab. Penang: Government Hill, C. Curtis, (nu, 2184)! 
Lankawi Islands: C. Curtis! 
