104 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



acute yellowish. Lip oblong entire truncate white. Column club- 

 shaped white with a red spot at base. Capsule eylindric 2 inches long. 



Singapore: Kranji, Sungei Morai (Kidlcy Ji036). Distrib. Bor- 

 neo. Epiphytic or terrestrial. 



46. E. ruDiCA, Ridl. Journ. Linn. Soe. XXXIL 391. Stems 

 crowded eylindric thick of 5 internodcs li inch long i inch through, 

 covered with brown papery sheaths. Leaves 2 oblanceolate subacute 

 6 inches long 1^ inch wide coriaceous. Ivacemes from the lower nodes 



2 inches long. Flowers numerous crowded in the u])per half small. 

 Bracts ovate I length of the ovary. Ovary and pedicel I inch long 

 woolly. Upper sepal elliptic obtuse pubescent on the back, laterals 

 much larger ovate obtuse. Petals as long and about as broad as the 

 upper sepal, elliptic obtuse curved, all white. Lip short and broad 



3 lobed side lobes short falcate subacute, edges violet, midlobe longer 

 broadly oblong truncate, white with two large oblong flat pink-edged 

 processes on the disc between the lateral lobes. Column broad and 

 long, foot short. 



Singapore: Changi (Ridley); Johor: Kwala Kahang (Kelsall). 

 Endemic, 



47. E. LANCIFOLIA, Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Lid. Y. 804. Ic. PI. 2075. 

 Stems 4 inches long, rather thick, covered with large sheaths. Leaves 

 two oblanceolate subacute 6 inches long, 1 inch wide wide, petiole more 

 than an inch long. Racemes 2 or 3 axillary short slender, pubescent. 

 Flowers small about 6 sessile, scattered. Bracts ovate I inch long. 

 Upper sepal elliptic or ovate obtuse, laterals much bi'oader ovate 

 falcate obtuse, mentum very short, pubescent. Petals about as long 

 as the upper sepal elliptic. Lip three lol)cd, side lobes rather large 

 falcate blunt minutely papillose witii two large oblong fleshy calli on 

 the inner side midlobe longer ovate. Column ratiier large, foot slen- 

 der curved. Capsule oblong three angled pubescent i inch long, erect. 

 E. dissitiflora, Ridl. Journ. Linn. Soc. XXXIL p. 292. 



Johor: Balu Pahat ; Pahang: Tahan L'iver (Native Coll. in 

 Herb. Bot. Sing.); Perak (King's Coll.). Endemic. 



48. E. SACCiFERA, Hook. lil. Fl. Brit. lud. \'. "lur. Ic. PI. t. 

 2071. Stems eylindric 3 inches long crowded. Leaves two or three 

 elongate, oblanceolate acuminate terminal a foot or more long 1-14 

 incli wide narrowed into a petiole. Scape subterminal slender six 

 incites long. Flowers glabrous ^4 i^^^'^^ ^^ng, " dull pink, claret and 

 yellow." Bracts oblong lanceolate. Upper sepal ovate oblong, late- 

 rals very braod rounded, mentum three time as long as the tipper sepal 

 saccate. Petals elliptic subacute. Lip entire clawed spathulate to- 

 mentose. Column very short foot long. 



Ferak: Guuong Batu Putih (Wray 1215). Endemic, 



