■70 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



24. B, LASiAyTHu:M, Lindl. Gard. Chron. 1855, p. 53. Ehizome 

 very stout woody \ inch through, roots copious, pseudobull)s cylindric 

 2^-3 inclics long, three inelies or more apart. Leaf lanceolate acute 

 9 inches long, three inches wide petiole an inch long. Scape stout 

 4-10 inches long, base (a third) covered with close red sheaths, raceme 

 about 15 flowered. Bracts lanceolate acute half an inch long. Flow- 

 ers purple hairy an inch long. Ovary and pedicel | an inch long. 

 Upper sepal linear oblong laterals as long base ovate concave. Petals 

 shorter lanceolate acuminate glabrous. Lip glabrous. Capsule 

 cvlindric narrowed at the base 1-i inch long. De Yriese 111. Orch. 

 Xed. Ind.. Micpiel Fl. Ind. Bat. III. 649, Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. V. 



;()3. 



Perak: (Scortechini) ; Penang: Government Hill (Curtis), 

 Bukit Laksamana (Curtis 1732). Distrib. Sumatra. 



25. B. ALCICORXE, Far. «fe Echb. fil. Trans. Linn. Soc. XXX. 

 151. Rhizome long covered with matted roots woody -J inch thick, 

 pseudobulbs small globose covered with brown sheaths ^ inch apart. 

 Leaf oblanceolate obtuse coriaceous fleshy 3 to 4 inches long half inch 

 across, tapering into a petiole an inch long. Scape graceful 5 inches 

 long peduncle ])ink nude 4 inches, raceme decurved 1 inch long. 

 Flowers crowded appressed to the rachis al)out 20. • Bracts very small 

 ovate, ovary and pedicel very short. Upper sepal nearly \ inch long, 

 lanceolate acute white tipped with purple and with purple veins, 

 laterals a little longer linear oblong obtuse pink. Petals about half 

 as long ovate cuspidate denticulate white, teeth point and nerve pur- 

 ple. Lip shortly clawed, blade straight oblong obtuse edge ciliate, 

 yellowish claw pink. Column stout white foot shorter, arms large 

 bifid lobes linear oblong with two teeth. Fruit elliptic i| inch long. 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 766. 



Penang: Government Hill at 2400 feet (Fox), West Hill (Curtis 

 996). Distrib. Tenasserim. 



§ 6. Dexsiflora. 



26. B. GiGAS, Ridley Journ. Linn. Soc. XXXII. p. 277. Rhizome 

 long woody \ inch through branched, pseudobulbs cylindric ^ to ^ 

 inch long | inch thick, six inches apart. Leaf obovate or oblanceo- 

 late coriaceous blade 12 inches long, 6 inches wide, with a petiole 6 

 inches long. Scape stout erect 18 inches tall with large sheaths 4 

 inches long scattered ; raceme 5 inches long many flowered nod- 

 ding. Flowers | inch long. Bracts ovate ^-!| inch long. Sepals 

 lanceolate acute laterals gibl)0us at the base. Petals linear narrower. 

 All white with red spots. Lip small sessile shorter than the column 

 hastate obtuse curved with two parallel keels orange. Column thick 

 wliite with ilirce |)urple spots, foot short orange, ai'ius two toothed. 

 Capsuli- H inch long elongate pyriform, 



