Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 47 



unequally bilobed, sheaths an inch long. Eacemes very short few 

 flowered from the upper axils. Bracts ovate acute very small. Ovary 

 and pedicel -h inch long. Flowers moderately large, 3 to 4. Upper 

 sepal oblong lanceolate acute -J inch long -J inch wide laterals similar, 

 mentum -| inch long straight slender acuminate. Petals linear spa- 

 thulate yV i^ch long. All burnt sienna coloured with darker reticu- 

 lations. Lip narrow with a long claw and very small tooth-like side 

 lobes whitish, midlobe small ovate fleshy caruncled brown, 2 keels on 

 the disc. Column thick sliort pale brown with tootli-liko erect arms. 

 Anther conic. Hook .fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. V. p. 73. 



Malacca: Bukit Jelutong (Derry 161). Endemic. 



41. D. PANDANETi, Eidl., Journ. Linn. Soc. XXXII. p. 25?. 

 Rhizome creeping vertically on stems of palms or Pandani, branched 

 emitting weak stems 8 to 12 inches long, ^ inch through. Leaves 

 lanceolate, acuminate unequally bilid thin herbaceous 3 inches long f 

 inch wide sheaths I inch long. Eacemes in the upper axils 5 inch 

 long, few flowered. Bracts minute ovate. Pedicel and ovary 1 inch 

 long. Sepals lanceolate acute ^ inch long ^ inch wide. Mentum 

 slender obtuse curved shorter. Petals linear acifte all white. Lip 

 base narrow linear, side lobes short blunt incurved, midlobe cordate 

 fleshy orange red, keels 3 on disc orange. Column straight olive 

 brown arms ovate incurved. Capsule on a pedicel ^ inch long elliptic 

 pyriform fawn colour. 



Singapore: Jurong (Eidley S071), Bukit Mandai (Eidley 5029) ; 

 Johor: Pulau Kukub; Batu Pahat (Eidley). Distrib. Siam. 



§9. Clavatae. 



42. D. GKACILE, Lindl. Stems tufted pendulous very slender 

 with one internode near the base swollen fusiform an inch long ^ inch 

 thick. Leaves setaceous channelled very narrow 3 inches long, sheaths 

 an inch long. Eaceme lateral very short ^ inch long curved with dry 

 bfown bracts. Flowers small opening singly on pedicels | inch long. 

 Sepals lanceolate nearly | an inch long, laterals a little wider. Men- 

 tum as long curved obtuse. Petals linear all white. Lip 3 lobed 

 side lobes rather large rounded, white with red veins inside, midlobe 

 ovate clawed white. Column straight narrow, arms tooth-like over- 

 topping the depressed anther. D. seii folium Eidlev, Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 XXXL 270. 



Singapore: Chan Chu Kang (Eidley). Distrib. Borneo, Ehio, 

 Java. Lindley writes in Herl) Kew on a specimen from Java, (Lobb) . 

 " I suppose D. gracile Lidl.'' 



43. D. CLAVATOH, Eidl., Journ. Linn. Soc. XXXII. 255. Stems 

 over a foot long slender, one internode near the base f inch long 

 thickened fusiform ten ribbed. Leaves terete channelled few distant 

 3 inches long ;iV inch thick. Eacenies short from the upper (nude) 



