Ipsea.] CXLVIII. ORCHIDER. (J. D. Hooker.) 813 
PERAK ; on Gunong Bata Pateh, alt. 4500 ft., Wray. 
Scape 9 in.; bracts $ in.; flowers 1} in. diam., resupinate ; dorsal sepal ovate- 
lanceolate, acuminate, Jateral and 3-nerved petals lanceolate; mentum with the 
sac of the lip produced into an incurved stout round-tipped spur; side lobes of 
the broad lip very short, tooth-like; columm rather short, winged ; pollinia 8, 
seated on a forked thick membrane, in superposed pairs.—A very curious plant, 
perhaps a Spathoglottis. 
22. SPA THOGLOTTIS, Blume. 
Pseudobrlbs on a creeping terrestrial rhizome, broadly conic, 1-3- 
laved. Leaves long-petioled, elongate, narrow, plaited. Scape lateral ; 
flowers racemed, often large. Sepals free, subequal. | Petals subsimilar or 
onger and broader. Lip sessile, erect; lateral lobes erect, midlobe clawed ; 
disk at its base tubercled or crested. Column long, arched, subclavate 
above and 2-winged, foot 0; anther 2-celled; pollinia 8, slightly cohering 
1n fours, —S pecies about 10, tropical Asiatic, Australian and Pacific. 
* Pseudobulbs clothed with rigid fibres of old leaves. Scape tall, stout. 
Petals much, broader than the sepals, many-nerved. 
l.S. plicata, Blume Bijd. 401, t. 76; tall, stout, scape 2-3 ft., 
raceme puberulous, bracts ovate or lanceolate acuminate, flowers 1 in. 
diam, lilac, sepals broad acute, midlobe of lip longer than the side lobes, 
claw narrow dilating into a cuneately flabelliform blade. Lindl. Gen. 
& Sp. Orchid. 119; zn Wall. Cat. 3749; Walp. Aun. vi. 455. SS. lilacina, 
Griff. Notul. iii. 323; Ic. Pl. Asiat. t. 911,1. 3. Bletia angustifolia, Gand. 
in Freye. Voy, Bot, 421, t. 32. 
Maray PENINSULA ; from Penang and Perak to Singapore, Wallich, Griffith 
(ew Distrib, 5937, 5193), Maingay (K. D. 1637, 1639).—Drstrrp, Java, Manilla, 
“New Guinea, 
Pseudobulbs when fall grown 2 in. diam, Leaves 2-4 ft. by 1-3 in., finely 
inate; petiole 6-18 in. Raceme 6-12 in., many-fid. ; bracts 3-1 in., reflexed 
m young plants flowers few and bracts larger); pedicels 1 in.; calli of lip yellow, 
sparsely villous. Capsule 1} in., pendulous.—Griffith (Notul. 1. c. 324) gives the 
asta Hills as a locality (as well as Malacca), but this is a mistake. 
& 28. aurea, Lindl. in Part. Fl. Gard. i. 16, and in Journ. Hort. 
"^. V. 945 tall, stout, scape 2 ft., raceme glabrous, bracts oblong obtuse, 
the SIS 1j in. diam. golden, sepals broad obtuse, midlobe of lip equalling 
ni faleate side lobes narrowly lanceolate fleshy acute, Walp. Ann. vi. 
^. S. plicata, Griff. Notul. ni. 325; Ie. Pl. Asiat. t. 311, f. 1. l 
G Matay Peniysura; PERAK, on Gunong Batu Pateh, Wray; Mount Ophir, 
Pf. (Kew Distrib, 5290) Maingay (K. D. 1638).— DISTRIB. Malay Islands. 
Pseudobulhs i-l in, diam, Leaves 12-18 in., narrowly lanceolate, acuminate ; 
woe às long. Raceme 6-8 in.; bracts 3 in., spreading, fleshy ; pedicels j in. ; side 
odes of lip narrow, falcate, ' 
3. S. Wra ok lant. ined. ; tall, scape 12-18 in., raceme 
glabrous, bracts tance poa Dant. 21 in. diam. bright yellow, sepals 
med Subacute, midlobe of lip longer than the straight side lobes very 
owly Spathulate. 
ERAK, alt, ^ 
Habit of g. MAU AM nearly twice as large, pedicels 13 in. ; bracts P 
infloreen Seen but one specimen of this splendid species, which is 3-4-4d. e 
Scence is probably as variable as in S. plicata. 
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