110 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



pinkish, pubescent. Bracts ovate brown. Sepals lanceolate obtuse 

 (lull pink pubescnt incntuni fairly large scrotiform. Petals smaller 

 lanceolate yellowish. Lip claw short, shoe shaped pubescent pale with 

 an orange tip. l)lunt. Column short loot nearly as long, arms erect 

 blunt much larger than the rest of the column, ovary pubescent. Cap- 

 sule subsessile oblong. Echb. fil. Xenia Orch. II. p. 92. t. 127. C. 

 teres, IJchb. fil. Bonplanda 11. 1854. p. 89. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. 

 V 825. C. Malaccensis, Hook. fil. I.e. 825. Ic. PI. 2098. 



Johor: Batu Paliat (Ridley) ; Selangor: Pahang Track (Ridley) ; 

 Malacca: Ophir (Griffith); Perak: Larut Hills (King's Collector 

 2333) ; Province Wellesley : Bukit Serayah (Ridley) ; Kedah : Gunong 

 .Terai (Ridley). Distrib. Java. 



2. C. LANCiFOLiA, Ilook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. V. 82G. Ic. PI. 2102. 

 Stems 2 to 4 inches long tufted erect unbranched covered with sheaths. 

 Leaf solitary narrow linear lanceolate acute. Flowers solitary ^ inch 

 across, pedicel and ovary pubescent. Sepals oblong lanceolate acute. 

 Petals narrower and shorter. Mentum short bilobed. Lip narrow, 

 base oblong apex thick dagger-shaped. Column arms taller than the 

 anther oblong obtuse. 



Perak (Scortechini). Endemic. 



3. C. ERiAEOiDEs, Hook. fil. Ic. PI. 2074 B. Dwarf tufted plant 

 stems \ inch long covered with sheaths. Leaf solitary lh-2 inches 

 long linear oblanceolate blunt thick. Scape as long filiform one 

 llowered. Flowers |-| inch across touientose. Sepals ovate lanceo- 

 late. Mentum short. Petals oblanceolate acute. Lip much shorter 

 than sepals saccate at the base, limb tongue shaped with 2 pubescent 

 keels on the disc. Stigma verv broad horseshoe-shaped. E. pi/gmaea. 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. V. 804. 



Perak (Scortechini, Wray). Endemic. 



4. C. CRYPTANTiiA, Ridl. Joum. Linn. Soc. XXXII. 309. Dwarf 

 tufted plant stems ^ inch long. Leaves 2 linear subacute 5 inches long 

 ■J inch wide. Scapes filiform f inch long woolly one flowered. 

 Flowers I inch across on a short woolly stalk. Bract minute ovate. 

 Sepals ovate obtuse white pubescent. Petals narrower ovate mucro- 

 nate oblique deep crimson with the long mucro and a median line 

 white. Lip claw long lineai-, side lobi-s blunt broad upcurved pultesceut 

 niidlobe reniform, cream colour, a fleshy ovate callus on the disc. 

 Column short, foot very long slender arms incurved very obscure. 

 Capsule elliptic erect ^ inch long. 



Perak: IIern)itage Hill, Larut Hills (Ridley) : Selangor: Pahang 

 Track (Curtis); Penang : (Jovernment Hill (Curtis, Widley ;240). 

 On trees at an altitude of about 2000 feet. Endemic. 



