52 2IatcriaJs for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



inch long shortly ijcdicclled. ScpaLs l)roadly ovate ol)tuse, yellow 

 ■with red streaks, mentuni twice as long as the sepals terete ol)tuse 

 nearly straight green. Petals widely obovate coloured as sepals. Lip 

 claw long linear. Made jiandurate. witli a scale across the Ijase of the 

 limb. D. pandnrifcnini var serpens Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. \l. ISO, 



Torak (Kunstler). Endemic. 



Ditl'ers I'rom llic preceding in tlie U>vm of the lip and coloui'ing. 



50. D. CROCATr.M, Hook. iil. FL 15i-ii. IikL \'1. 1S.5. Ann. Bot. 

 Gard. Calc. \'ol. \'. }). i). V\. 14. Stems 1 to o Jcct Jong, intei'nodes 

 an inch long -^ inch through. Jjcaves lanceolate acute very uncipially 

 ])ilobed o to 4 inches long one incJi wide. IJacemcs short i inch long 

 2-3 flowered. Bracts small ovate. Flowers sliowy two inches long 

 orange. Sepals lanceolate acute i incli long. Mentum an incii long- 

 straight (ylindric acuminate horizontal. Petals aljout as large as 

 sepals. Lip spathulate, claw linear blade ovate denticulate crisped 

 with a double keel running down tlie claw, orange with red spots. 

 Column dilated above. Antiiei- ovoid. D. [Xjropnin .liidlev Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. FTl. 'MVi. 



Singapore: Chan L'hu Kaiig ( Ridley ): I'ahang: Talian I{i\er 

 Woods (Kidley) ; Sungei lljong: Seremban (Braddon) ; Perak : La nil 

 (Kunstler). Epiphytic sporadically on high trees. I can hnd no 

 " oblong reversed callus " on the lip as described in FL Brit. LkL l)ut 

 tlie two I'idges join at tlie base and are a little more ele\ated at that 

 point. Endemic. 



iu. 1). l)i;i;i;vi. KMdL Stems stout somewhat eiilaiged upwards 

 red 8 to 10 inches b)ng by § incli wide, intrnodes 14 inch long chan- 

 nelled. Leaves oblong obtuse 3 inches long or more. Flowers solitary 

 on the old stem 1 inch or Jess across, pedicel and ovary 4 inch long. 

 Sepals oblong hmccobiti" obtuse spreading ocreous. Mentuni straight 

 blunt iiorizontal thick \ inch long. Petals narrower ocreous. Lip 

 white with a narrow chiw, with an elevation doul)le ridge meeting at 

 the base of tlie lij), bhule oblong truncate l)road more or less retuse. 

 Column broad shoi't, whitt', arms ei'cct talirr than the depresst'd Hat 

 anther, Idunt orange. 



Perak: Larul Hills (Derryj. Distrih. Borneo. \'cry variable 

 in the sizi; ol' the llower. 



58. J). iiVMKXOi'THHUM, Ilook. ill. Jc. PI. lOo'i. Stems slender 

 terete or Ihickened ujiwards a foot long purple, with short iiilernod(>s. 

 Leaves lew lineai- acuminate 3 inches long, ] inch wide. Flowers 

 Rolitaj.'y thin \\ inch across and one inch longi Sepals elliptic obtuse 

 white often tinted with violet. Mentuni nearly as long slender acumi- 

 nate. Petals a little larger white. Lip entire ^patllulatc apex broad 



