Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 79 



Lip flesli}' 5 linos long base wideh' cordate ol:)tuse base covered with 

 long hairs, crimson. Column l)road at the base narrowed upwards 

 teeth slender acute incurved. Anther puberulous. 



CirrJtopeiahnn brcriscapitni, Kolfe Bot. Mag. t. 8033. 



Perak, cultivated at Glasnevin, and Kew Gardens in 1903. • 



53. B. I'LAXiBULUE^ Ividl. Ehizome long creeping slender, 

 pseudobulbs elliptic oblong Hat lying on the rhizome, purple an inch 

 long J inch wide, 3 inches apart. Leaf elliptic oblong obtuse an inch 

 long, ^ inch wide. Scape 4 inches long slender purple with a few 

 sheaths and 4 or o flowers at the end. Bracts lanceolate acute I inch 

 long. Pedicels slender an inch long. Upper sepal erect lanceolate 

 acute caudate an inch long, laterals deflexecl 2 inches long, all yellow 

 with red spots on the back and edges. Petals short obovate sub- 

 spathulate yellow. Lip recurved fleshy tongue-shaped acute, sides 

 elevated, and a median channel orange. Column stout yellow foot 

 very short purple, arms long subulate as long as the petals. 



Cirrhopetalnm planihulhe, Eidl. Trans. Linn. Soc. III. p. 364, 



PI. LXiy. 



Paliang: Pekan (Eidley) ; Kedah: Yan (Ividley). Endemic. 



54. B. MAXiMUAi, IJidl. CirrJio petal lun niaxiuiiDii, Pidl. Journ. 

 Bot. March 1900 p. 70. Khizome far creeping stout, pseudobulbs 

 far apart narrow oblong flattened 5 inches long. Leaf lanceolate 

 coriaceous 12 inches long, 4 inches wide petiole 1-| inch. Scape a foot 

 long with a terminal whorl a foot across of 7 flowers each over 6 inches 

 long including the thick pedicel an inch long. Bracts lanceolate 

 acuminate reddish an inch long. Sepals lanceolate caudate. Lip 

 tongue-shaped fleshy acute large cream colour with a violet centre. 

 Column broad oblong cream colour with mauve mai'kings, arms 4, 2 

 short erect, 2 broad thick horizontal violet. 



Perak : Bujong Malacca on trees and rocks at 2000 feet (Eidley, 

 Curtis 3125). Endemic. 



55. B. MEDUSAE, lichl).'fll. Walp. Ann. VI. 262. Phizome very 

 stout pseudobulbs an inch long thick angled conic. Leaf 6 inches long 

 one inch wide, oblanceolate very coriaceous deep green, narrowed at 

 base into a short petiole. Scape 4 to 5 inches long stout with large 

 loose sheaths. Flowers in a large dense globose head an inch and a 

 half through with large lanceolate pallid bracts at base half an inch 

 long. Floral bracts lanceolate acuminate much longer than the short 

 ovary. Sepals caudate, lanceolate, wliite pink spots, laterals six times 

 as long as tlie dorsal, nearly six inches long. Petals lanceolate acu- 

 minate pinkish much shorter. Lip shorter than the petals nearly 

 straight lanceolate acute yellowish. Column thick, foot as long, arms 



