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line. They are free to the disc, there being no pedicel. The 
disc is large, circular, and brown in colour. The clinandrium 
is deep with a median ridge. The filament of the anther-cap 
is short but distinct, broad and truncate. The rostellum is 
long and entire. 
APPENDICULA ELONGATA, Pidl. in Trans. Linn. Soc., Ser. II. 
(Bot.) iii. (1898) p. 375. 
Hab. Pahang: Trees overhanging the River Tahan! 2371. 
A. Lewisu, Griff. in Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist., iv. (1844) p. 378, 
t. 19, et Ic. Pl. As., t. 337. 
Hab. Singapore: Wallich. 
Penang: West Hill, Curtis, 993! 
Perak: Scortechini, Wray. 
A. compranata, fidl., sp. nova. Caules 1 ped. longi, com- 
planati, pallide virides. Folia subremota, lanceolata, sub- 
membranacea, basi rotundata, apice inequaliter bifida obtusa 
longiuscule mucronata, conspicue 3-nervia; vagine 4 poll. 
longee, ancipites, ore integre oblique. acemi 4 poll. longi, 
terminales rarius laterales. Bractee lanceolate, subobtuse, 
reflexes. Flores parvi, virescenti-albi; ovaria cum pedicellis 
brevia. Sepala ovata, obtusa; mentum: breve, scrotiforme, 
obtusum. Petala sepalis paullo minora. Labellum sepalis 
brevius, adnatum, ovatum, obtusum, album in fauce purpureo- 
2-lineatum. Colwmna brevis, superne purpurea; pes latus. 
Anthera ovato-lanceolata acute, minute pustulata, kermesina; 
pollinia 6, insequalia, clavata, pallide flava; discus minimus, 
lanceolatus, obtusus, rufus; rostellum ovatum, acutum, breviter 
bifidum, viride in medio purpureum. Stigma latum, in 
margine inferiore sinuatum: stelidia 0; caudiculus majus- 
culus, ovatus, acutus. 
Hab. Selangor: Bukit Hitam, Kelsall ! 
Johore: Gunong Pulai! 
Remarkable for its flattened stem, which appears slightly 
winged when dry. The foliage is rather thin, and dries green. 
A. Maineayt, Hook. f., Fl. Brit. Ind., vi. p. 85, et Ic. PL, 
t. 2151. 
Hab. Perak: Scortechini. 
Penang: West Hill, Curtis! 
