Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 75 



all white witli yellowish tips petals less than half as long as the upper 

 sepal lanceolate obtuse, white. -Lip small tongue-shaped acute re- 

 curved yellow. Column thick, foot sliorter, arms narrow linear acute 

 curved, 



Perak: Larut Hills at 3000-4000 feet (Curtis), Endemic, 



40. B, ciTRixuMj Eidl. Ehizome covered with fibres of old 

 sheaths pseudobulbs crowded or rarely an inch apart conic hardly an 

 inch long. Leaf obovate obtuse fleshy dark green or purplish l-J inch 

 long f inch wide. Scape filiform sliorter or longer than the leaf. 

 Flowers about ten crowded into a head whorled, lemon yellow, nearly 

 •J inch long. Bracts linear boat-shaped acute as long as tlie pedicels. 

 Upper sepal ovate lanceolate acute, laterals lanceolate linear twice as 

 long. Petals ovate acuminate or lanceolate acute, shorter than dorsal 

 sepal. Lip fleshy curved thick subacute with two broad keels. Co- 

 lumn thick longer than the foot. Arms very short blunt broad. 

 Capsule elliptic ^ inch long, pedicel ^ inch, 



Cirrhopetalum cliriniim, Eidlev, Journ. Linn, Soc. XXXI. 1896, 

 p, 279, ' ' 



Singapore: Tanjong Gol (Eidley 3932), Sungei Buluh (Eidley 

 1687) ; Johor: Sungei Ban (Eidk\y) : Malacca: Mount Ophir; Perak: 

 Thaiping. Distrib, Southern Siam, Borneo. 



41. B. AXDENOPETALUM, Lindl, Bot, Eeg, 1842, Misc, 95, Ehi- 

 zome stout with copious roots, Pseudobulbs obsolete, very small 

 globose. Leaf tliickly coriaceous oblanceolate to lanceolate obtuse 8 

 inches long by one across, petiole stout enclosed with base of scape in 

 dry brown sheatbs. Scape shorter tlian tlie leaf 6 inches long rather 

 stout nearly completely floriferous. Flowers numerous scattered pale 

 yellow -J inch long, pedicel ^ inch. Bracts lanceolate acuminate 

 longer than the ovary. Sepals lanceolate acuminate, equal hardly 

 gibbous. Petals very short oblong minutely ciliate blunt. Lip 

 tongue-shaped fleshy blunt channelled ciliate. Column short and 

 thick, arms erect short blunt. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit, Ind, VI, 



" Singapore "' Hort, Loddiges. cult, in Hort. Bot. Singap. with- 

 out locality August 1893. Perak, Kamuning (Machado). 



42. B. OBLAXCEOLATUM, King. Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXVI. II. 

 3, p. 586, Ehizome stout densely clothed with coarse fibres and roots, 

 no pseudolnilbs. Leaves oblanceolate subacute tapering to a stout 

 petiole, blade 6 to 8 inches long, -Y" inch to i/- wide, petiole 2-2J inch 

 long. Eaceme from tbe rhizome near a loaf, peduncle as long as the 

 leaf, with several sheaths ^ an inch long. Flowers straw colour 

 numerous not coloured ^ inch across. Bracts lanceolate as long as 

 the ovary. Sepals spreading linear lanceolate finely acuminate, late- 

 rals larger than dorsal, subfalcate. Petals -^ of the length of the 



