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APOSTASIACEX® OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 413 
A tall stout plant, with the leaves nearly 6 inches above 
the base of the stem, of a rich dark green above, glaucous 
beneath. Raceme of many fleshy flowers; rhachis and bracts 
sea-green. Sepals narrow, linear, pubescent, at first olive- 
green, soon becoming reddish. Petals and lip lobes equal and 
similar spreading-recurved, dull greyish olive-green. The lip 
is dilate at the base just above the entrance to the short spur. 
Its affinity is with H. goodyeroides, D. Don. 
HABENARIA LACERTIFERA, Benth., Fl. Hongk., p. 362. 
Hab. Singapore: Selitar! Jurong! Pasir Panjang! Blakang 
Mati! Bukit Timah! &c. 
Malacca: Sungei Hudang! Bakit Bruang! 
Penang: Government Hill. 
Mr. Hullett found it also very abundant on Gunong Dai, in 
the islands of Lingga. 
It grows along paths and roadsides in open country, but 
seems never to be very abundant in Singapore. The flowers are 
pure white, and sweetly scented. 
The var. robustior, Kraenzl. in Engl. Jahrb., xvi. (1892) 
p- 160 (var. robusta, Hook. f., FI. Brit. Ind., vi. p. 163), is 
merely a strongly grown plant in richer soil. 
The lip has usually three short equal lobes, but I have met 
with a form (at Jurong, Singapore) in which the two lateral 
lobes were prolonged into slender linear processes, much longer 
than the median one. This is given as part of the character 
of robustior, but the specimens were not bigger than the 
ordinary form. They were also remarkable for apparently 
having no spur to the lip; but I found that the spurs all 
withered and fell off shortly after the flowers opened. 
H. monticona, Ridl., sp. nova. Tubera } poll. longa, oblonga. 
Folia 3-4 basalia, 1 poll. longa, } poll. lata, lanceolata, acuta, 
atroviridia. Caulis 7-18 poll. longus, gracillimus, preter 
bracteas lanceolatas acuminatas basin versus sitas nudus. 
Racemus laxus, multiflorus. Flores perparvi, virides. Bractew 
$ poll. longe, lanceolate: acute ; pedicelli bracteis vix longiores. 
Sepala 5 poll. longa, oblongo-ovata. Petala sepalis paullo 
breviora, elliptico-oblonga, obtusa, integra. Labellum 3-fidum ; 
unguis brevis; lobi laterales } poll. longi filiformes, medius 
multo brevior obtusus; calcar cum sepalis equilongum, rectum, 
