216 NEW MALAYAN ORCHIDS. 



Selangor ; high up on the hmestone rocks near Kwala Lumpur. 

 Kara. 



A very curious Httle plant with broad rather fleshy leaves oblique 

 and sometimes almost subspathulate. The flowers are very small, 

 red and yellow, borne in slender racemes. The lip is in the form 

 of a sac ending in a point, resembling that of some Thrixspennuni. 

 It is curved up so as to cover the column. The rostellum is some- 

 what peculiar, the two lobes into which it is split forming an ovate- 

 acuminate body. It is very large in proportion to the column, and 

 nearly closes the mouth of the coalscuttle-shaped hp. It is rather 

 difficult to refer this to the neighbourhood of any species. The form 

 of the lip would naturally induce one to class it as a Thrixspermum, 

 but as in other respects it resembles other Saccolahia, I have referred 

 it to that genus. 



Dendrocolla carnosa, sp. n. Caulis bipollicaris, radicibus 

 copiosis. Folia plura approximata, anguste lineari-lanceolata 

 acuminata acuta crassa, carnosa superne canaliculata purpuras- 

 centi-atroviridia, 3 pollices longa, ^ pollicis lata, vaginis J pollicis 

 longa costata purpurea. Racemi plures pedunculis gracilibus pur- 

 pureis 3-pollicaribus, paullo incrassati, pollicares. Bracteffi qua- 

 quaversse breves ovatc^ acutae. Flores parvi, pedicellis gracilibus, 

 |- pollicis longis. Sepala oblonga ovata flava. Petala subsimilia. 

 Labellum quam petala breviora, lobis lateralibus longis et latis, 

 disco medio saccato lobo medio carnoso obtuso, pulvino tomentoso 

 ad basin. 



Penang {Curtis) ; Sept. 1897. 



Allied to D . iKirdalis Ridl., with shorter peduncles, and differently 

 coloured flowers. The lip is rather peculiar in having the erect 

 lateral lobes meeting in the middle line so as to cover over a saccate 

 nectary formed by the disc. The fleshy tongue-shaped apex (for as 

 in nearly all species the lateral lobes are not distinctly marked off, 

 except by texture) bears a small woolly papilla at its base. 



Zeuxine clandestina B1. This inconspicuous plant was obtained 

 first by Waitz in Eastern Java, and since then does not appear to 

 have been collected again till last year, when a considerable number 

 of plants appeared in the jungle of the Botanic Gardens in Singapore. 



CYSTORcms variegata var. purpurea Ridl. A plant of this was 

 brought me by a native on the Bongaya river, Labuk Bay, British 

 North Borneo. It had previously been recorded from Western 

 Java, Sumatra, and Pahang. 



Lecanorohis malaccensis Ridl. I found fruiting plants of what 

 appeared identical with the Malay Peninsula plant in the forest of 

 Bongaya. It has not previously been recorded from Borneo. 



Pogonia discolor B1. has been found by Mr. Goodenough in 

 Selangor. This plant has been only previously recorded from Siam 

 (where it is known as the Elephant's Ear) and from Java. 



