46 



came from tlie same place, where Dr. J. J. Smith also has obtained 

 it in recent years. \A'hence came the much more brightly coloured 

 plant that flowered at Kew and furnished Sir William Hooker with 

 liis drawing, is unrecoi'dod. 



Dr. J. J. Smith records Acanthephipijiuiu javanicum as occur- 

 ing on Gunong Salak, at TJigombong and Bandongan, and on the 

 island of Telo and in Xew Guinea {Orchideen von Java, 1905, 

 p. -^lo). 



Stauhopsis bri:viscapa, Rolfe. 



In 1!)1"? Mr. J. W. Anderson, then Assistant Curator of the 

 Botanic (iardens, collected plants of this orchid in Sarawak and 

 brought them alive to Singapore. They flowered very freely in' 

 April. 19Ui. 



The plant rises to 3 feet, and bears many inflorescences of 2 — G 

 flowers. The flowers are mustard yellow with rich umber brown 

 markings. They face horizontally. The lip is very lightly hinged 

 and hangs by its own weight: it is thick along the middle line, 

 l)y reason of a ridge rising near the base, and continuing into a 

 white point. Tt has brown lines on it, short and parallel, ruji- 

 ning towards the side lobes wliich are a little concave. The edges 

 of the sepals and petals are crisped as in so many Vandas. 



The following two sheets in the Singapore Herbarium are 

 considered as of tlie same s})ecies: — 



Sarawak without locality, Sahih. flowered in tlie Singapore 

 (iardens, 23.4.14. 



Bidi. Sarawak. .l//-.s'. Brools, Sept. 28, with the note. " This 

 is a limestoiu' orchid and occurs also at Kuop. 



i'lIALAKXOPSIS KUNSTLERI X SUMATRANA. 



On May 4th, 1917, Mr. B. K. Saheb brought to the Botanic 

 Gardens for opinion a flowering riialaenopsis which he had obtained 

 in the north of the Peninsula along with P. sumatrana. In foliage 

 it exactly resembled P. sumatrana^ but the flowers were white with 

 a slight green flush, and marked sparingly with chocolate brown. 

 'I'he colouring thus was as in P. Kvnstlerx, Hook, f., \n\i in shape it 

 e.vactly resemljled P. su.nidtrdna, while u])on the white petals and 

 sepals the shape of the markings was as in P. sumatrana, Korth., 

 though tliey were much less abundantly ])resent. The sepals and 

 side petals had rather the shape of those of P. Kunstleri, being 

 shorter and more ovate than in P. sumatrana. Altogether there ap- 

 ]X'ared in the specimen a certain amount of evidence for regarding 

 it as a natural livbrid between the two nanicd. 



SaCCOLABUM (SaRCANTHUS) SKCUXDrM. RiDL. 



Saccohtnum senuidum, Ridl. is a rather widely distributed 

 orchid, occurring in the Himalaya of Assam, and southwards to 

 Sumatra, Java and Borneo. Wallich's collectors, F. de Sylva and 

 W, (iomez, ol)tained it in Sylhet. and Wallich a])i)arently cultivated 



