54 Materials for a Flora of ilie Malayan Peninsula. 



claw, blade abruptly dilated pandnrate bilobed lobes rounded fimbriate 

 wbite. Column broad, arms sliort blunt orange. 



rerak: Larut Hills at 4000 feet (^y. Fox). Endemic. 



G2. 1). TROPAEOLiFLORUM, Hook. fil. Ann. Bot. Gard, Calc. V. p. 

 11. pi. IT. Stem elongate flexuous tbickened upwards, 1 foot long. 

 Leaves linear oblong acute 8| incbes long incli wide. Eaceme 1-2 

 incbes long, racbis slender, flowers 6 or more an incb long. Bracts 

 minute, pedicel and ovary inch long. Sepals triangular ovate acute 

 ^-•^ inch long. Petals obovate rounded acute all deep purple. Men- 

 tum four times as long as tbe sepals cylindrie oI)tuse yellow. Lip as 

 long as tbe sepals, claw linear gradually dilated into tbe lateral lobes 

 between which is a large semilunar callus, then suddenly contracted 

 into tbe obovate, apiculate limb. 



Perak (Kunstler). Endemic. More nearly allied to D. serpens 

 Hook. fil. 



63. D. MEGACEEAS, Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. V. 7 31. Ic. PI. 2031. 

 Stems 2 feet long slender, internodes 1-1:[ inch long. Leaves oblong 

 lanceolate acuminate 3-i incbes long | to 1 inch wide. Kacemes short 

 few flowered. Flowers large IJ inch long yellowish green. Bracts 

 minute. Upper sepal elliptic oblong obtuse, laterals similar. Men- 

 tum 2 to 3 times as long cylindrie nearly straight. Petals obovate. 

 ]jip cuneate three-lobed claw gradually dilated into limb with an 

 elongate keel at tbe base, lateral lobes subtruncate crenulate, midlobe 

 suborbicular refuse crenate. Colunm short arms erect rounded. 

 Filament of anther rather long. 



Malacca (Maingay 1613). Endemic. 



64. D. TENUiCAULE, Kidl., Journ. Boy. As. Soc. S. Br. Vol. 39. p. 

 73. Stems very slender weak a foot long. I^eaves linear lanceolate 

 solitary large ^ inch across, pedicel and ovary slender half an inch 

 long. Upper sepal ovate blunt, laterals ovate acute. Mentum very 

 l(uig cylindi'ic apex decui'ved acute ■} inch long. Petals broadly ovate. 

 All pink darkest at tbe tips. Lip claw very long narrow, lateral lobes 

 broad upc-urved, midlobe short ovate at apex bifid edges crisped, 

 white with a central pink line. Column short with a very long foot, 

 arms tooth-like erect. Anther margin pubescent. 



Lankawi : Aver Hangat (Curtis). Endemic. 



Go. 1). KHXTiJociiii.i .\i. Hook. (il. I'l. Brit. ^nd. V. VM. Ic. PI. 

 2030. Stem stout comju-essed dee])ly obtuse, 5 to 6 incbes long. 

 Leaves oblong obtuse, 5 to 6 iucbes long coriaceous, IJ to 1^ inch 



