MK. CHARLES HOSE's BORNEAN MONOCOTYLEDONS 175 



Stem 1*5 cm. thick ; leaves 14-20 cm. long by 35-4 cm. broad, 

 thinly coriaceous when dry, stalk broad, about 1 cm. long. Ra- 

 cemes about 10 cm. long, bracts about 1 cm. long ; pedicel with 

 ovary 1-1-5 cm. long. The large lateral sepals are 7 mm. long by 

 3*5 mm. broad in the middle, the base extended forwards along the 

 column-foot (7 mm. long) forms a blunt spur around the concave 

 lip base. Lower portion of lip 5 mm. long, broadening slightly 

 upwards, and barely 3 mm. wide at the top; lateral lobes 2-5 mm. 

 long by 1"5 mm. broad, mid-lobe 4 by 3'5 mm., the broad apex 

 somewhat crenulate ; column 4 mm. long. 



A very distinct species of the habit of E. florlbmida, but easily 

 distinguished by its less dense larger-flowered racemes. 



GrammatophyHum speciosum Bl. 



Baram district, Apoh river, Nov. 20, 1894 ; no. 122. 



Cymbidium Finlaysonianum Lindl. 



Baram district, Miri river, Jan. 1895 ; no. 565. 



A widely spread Malayan plant not hitherto recorded from 

 Borneo. 



Mr. Hose's plant closely resembles specimens sent from Pahang 

 by Ridley, and also the no. 679 of Zollinger's Java collection and 

 no. 2082 of Cuming's Philippine plants. Cuming's no. 2121 is also 

 conspecific, but the large, almost orbicular mid-lobe of the lip has 

 a markedly emarginate apex. 



A specimen from Christian Smith, labelled " Barn Island, 

 Straits Sincapore, July 4, 1796," has narrower sepals 13-14 lines 

 long and barely 2 lines broad, and a narrower median lip-lobe. 



DipODiuM PALUDosuM Reicheub. f. 



Baram, March, 1895; no. 45. 



The plant shows some differences from the specimens from 

 the Malayan Peninsula and Labuan and the cultivated specimens 

 (see Bot. Mag. t. 7464) in the Kew Herbarium. The flowers are 

 larger, the longer oblanceolate petals are obviously larger than the 

 lateral sepals {e.g. petals 2-7 cm. long by 6 mm. broad, sepals 

 2'2 cm. by 4*5 mm.), while the lip is still shorter (1-6-1-8 cm.). 

 The base of the lip is also longer, and the lateral teeth are more 

 conspicuous. The perianth leaves show no trace of spotting in the 

 dried specimen. Assuming the specimens to be conspecitic, the 

 species evidently shows considerable variation. Thus we have at 

 the Museum another Borneo specimen (near Patong, Grabowsky, 

 1881) in which the sepals and petals more resemble the smaller- 

 flowered form ; they are shorter than in Mr. Hose's plant, subequal 

 (and obviously spotted) ; the lip-base below the lateral teeth is, as 

 in the smaller flowers, very short, but the lateral teeth are much 

 longer than in the Hose specimen, being 6 mm. long by 1 mm. 

 broad ; the pedicels of the pollinia are also conspicuously longer 

 than in both the others (2 mm. long, only 1*5 mm. in the Hose 

 specimen), and the ellipsoid upper lip-lobe is densely tomentose 

 from apex to base. The leaves are also stouter, broader, and less 

 tapering. Grabowsky describes the flowers as yellowish white 

 spotted with brown ; in size and form they resemble those of 



