68 Materials fur a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



coriaceous dark green. Scapes ^ incli long with solitary reversed 

 small flowers. Bracts very small cup-shaped mucronate. Upper sepal 

 huu-colatc actuc ] inch long green, laterals much longer connivent into 

 a boat-shape deep crimson. Petals minute cuneate mucronate pallid. 

 Lip shortly stipitate. Claw tliickened erect blade lanceolate subobtuse 

 flat nari'ow orange coloui'ed with a crimson groove purple l)eneath 

 papillose. Cukunu thick rosy. i'o<it as long, arms long linear truncate 

 bilobed, upper lobe very short lower dccui'vcd i'alcate. Capsule ovoid 

 I inch long. 



Singapore: Bajau (Ridley 2)161), Kranji; Penang: Government 

 Hill 2000 feet (Biciley : 004)." Endemic. 



§ 3. El'ICl{IA>«THES. 



IS. B. Ei'iCKiANTiiKS, Hook. fd. Flor. Brit. Ind. V. 753. 

 Khizome tolerably thick covered with sheaths pseudobulhs 1 inch apart 

 halt* an inch long fusiform enclosed in a sheathing leaf. Leaf elliptic 

 oblong coriaceous blunt or acute an inch long, luilf an inch or more 

 wide. Scape very short one flowered. Bracts lanceolate. Sepals ^ 

 inch ovate lanceolate acute pink, spreading. Petals represented bv 

 or 7 terete clubbed threads white at base grey at tip, less than half as 

 long as sepals. Lip elliptic lanceolate subacute warti^d deep purple. 

 Column stout foot shorter, pinkish up])er part deep purple arms erect 

 acute, taller than anther. Anther depressed with a long up-curved 

 blunt beak. 



Perak: Tapah (Curtis). Distrib. Java. 



§ 4. HlIITLLA. 



19. Ji. TKXKitf.M, Kidl. .lourn. Koy. As. Soc. S. Br. Vol. XXXIX. 

 p. 75. BhizonTe slender liliform ))seu(lobu]bs ovoid | inch long, about 

 ^ inch apart. Leaf oval i an inch long not pctiolate. Sca{)e slender 

 red 2 inches tall with a few bracts at the base. Flowers three al the 

 apex, small ] inch long, pedicelled. L'pper sepal lanceolate acuminate, 

 laterals much longer slightly gibbous at base, purple with green bases. 

 Petals ovate elli|)tie umeh shorter green. Lip small recurved acute 

 purple. Column (hick lurved, green foot as long, purple, arms long 

 linear acute curved. 



Jiankawi (Curtis). J'lndemie. 



20. r.. iiiKTiMM. IJidl. .loiiin. I)(.l. .Maixh LMUI. p. 11. Bhi- 

 zoine slender. [»seud<»l)ull>s globular ci'owded hardly ] inch long. Leaf 

 oblong lanceolate obtuse li inch long }, inch wide. Scaj)e slender 2 

 inches long two Dowered, ifowers | inch long, ovary and i)edicel short 

 red. Upper se})al ovate lanceolate acute, laterals wider falcate, pubes- 

 cent white tipped with puifde. Petals narrow linear shorter, white 

 with brown vciuc and cilia along the edges. Lip tongue-shaped 



