102 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



at base coriaceous. Eacemes stout erect 6 inches long base nude. 

 Flowers numerous i inch across, pedicels thick pubescent. Bracts 

 lanceolate 4 as long. Sepals white backs pubescent, upper widely 

 lanceolate subobtuse, laterals ovate acute, falcate, mentum short broad 

 blunt. Petals ovate white. Lip, side lobes falcate acute red, with 

 a fleshy callus. Column straight. 



Singapore: Seletar (Ridley). Distrib. Borneo. 



40. E. XANTiiociiEiLA, Kidl. ti. sp. Stems tufted on a stout 

 rhizome \ inch through, about half an inch apart cylindric .fusiform 5 

 inches long, internodcs few. Leaves 3 or 4 subterminal lanceolate 

 bright green o-G inches long, H inch wide coriaceous. IJacemes 

 several from the axils below tlie leaves about 3 inches long. Flowers 

 numerous fragrant ^ inch long, pedicels pubescent ^ inch long. 

 Bracts ovate -J to f inch long, white. Dorsal sepal ovate laterals 

 falcate ovate, mentum twice as long, oblong blunt. Petals lanceolate 

 acute, narrower, all white. Lip clawed long side lobes erect oblong 

 obtuse, or acute curved, rather long, dull red, midlobe ovate truncate 

 yellow, keels 3 on disc ])etwecn side lobes red, apices thickened, 

 median prolonged on midlobe. Column straight foot long anther 

 small. 



Selangor: near Klang (Ridley 10273). Endemic. 



41. E. RECURVATA, Hook. 111. Fl. Brit. Ind. V. TOT Ic. PI. 2070. 

 Stems tufted, thick cylindric of 2-5 internodcs 4-G inches tall | inch 

 through. Leaves 3 to 5 elliptic lanceolate narrowed into a petiole, 

 6 to 8 inches long 1| to 2 inches wide. Raceme lateral G inches pubes- 

 cent, many flowered. Bracts ovate lanceolate as long as the pedicels 

 yellow. Pedicel and ovary pubescent f inch long. Flowers § inch 

 across. Sepals recurved falcate lanceolate acuminate, yellow with 

 purple stripes, mentum large rounded. Petals lanceolate acuminate 

 yellow with purple stripes. Lip lateral lobes short rounded pale 

 ]>urple, midlobe obcordate rounded yellowish, two keels on the disc. 



Pcrak (King's Collector). 



42. E. LATiBRACTEATA, Ridl. Joum. Linn. See. XXXIL 293. 

 Stems a foot long, crowded, terete \ inch thick. Leaves 4 terminal 

 lanceolate plicate acute thin 7 inches long I4 inch wide. Racemes 

 2 or 3, compact 2 inches long, sessile. Bracts ovate acute nearly 

 half an inch long bright green. Flowers about 12 nearly glabrous, 

 half an inch long, pedicels and ovaries ] inch long. I'i)]H'r sei)al lan- 

 ceolate acute, laterals falcate keeled, mentum short and broad. White 

 with red at bases. Petals shorter and broader obtu.se, ovate white. 

 Lip shorter, broad, lobes from the base, curved obtuse, madder pink, 

 midlol)e longer l)roadly rounded ovate retu.se, white, 2 raised keels, and 

 two elevated nerves between them on the disc ending in a deep pink 



