112 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Pminsula. 



scattered, medium sized. Sepals and petals subsimilar, lateral sepals 

 falcate. Lip three lobed. adnate to tiie short loot of the column, spur- 

 less. Column tall arched, with a very short foot, arms linear oblong 

 from the midlobe of the column, anther 2 celled. Pollinia 8. 

 Species 4, Indo-Malayan. 



C. villosum, Bl. Bijdr. 338. Leaves ovate large villous 6-9 inches 

 long, 3-5 wide very shortly petioled, or directly sessile on the pseudo- 

 bulb. Scapes twice as long as the leaves hairy. Flowers 9 or 10, 

 distant. Sepals and petals ol)long obtuse, apiculate yellow with purple 

 stripes. Lip shorter than the colimin side lobes oblong as long as the 

 widely ovate midlobe, two strong keels in the centre. Lindl. Gen. and 

 Sp. drch. 13. Bl. Orch. Arch. Ind. 162. PI. 47. 



Perak (Scortechini). Distrib. Java. 



16. COLLABIUM, Bl. 



Rhizome creeping, pseudobulbs narrow 1 leaved. Leaf plicate. 

 Scape from the rhizome, flowers scattered small. Sepals narrow, 

 laterals connate forming a mcntum. Petals narrower. Lip three 

 lobed clawed. Column short, winged, no arms, foot long anther 

 hemispheric. Pollinia 2, no disc. 



Sp. 2. Malayan. 



C. nchuhsum, Bl. BiJdr. 35T. Leaf broadly lanceolate or ovate 

 marbled with dark and light green 6-7 inches long 4-1- incii wide. 

 Scape purple 18 inches. Flowers al)out 20 small. Ovary and pedicel 

 g inch, red. Sepals falcate acute, mentum long blunt. Petals bent 

 in the middle as long as sepals but narrower, all yellow with broad red 

 edges. Lip white side lobes oblong falcate obtuse erect, midlobe large 

 orbicular undulate, 2 short blunt oblong ovate laminae meeting in 

 middle and 2 low ridges on disc. Column sigmoid short, yellow with 

 transverse red bar, wings low. Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. PI. 96. 

 Miquel. Fl. Nederl. Ind. III. p. 678. Clioix des Plantes XXVI. 



Perak: Larut Hills (Derry), (Eidley). Dense woods at 3000 

 feet alt. Distrib. Java. 



Excluded species, C. Wrayi, Hook. ill. is Thecostele marciilosa, 

 Ridl. 



17. Plococlottis, Bl. 



Terrestrial herbs, with a creeping rhizome. Leaves solitary, or 

 several on a stem, ovate lanceolate short or long petioled. Scape tall 

 from the rhizome (lowers few or many in a raceme. Sepals lanceolate. 

 Petals longer or shorter. Lip shorter clawed, flexible, limb oblong. 

 Column short and broad, toot very short, arms none. Anliier ovate. 

 I'ollinia 4, each pair with a caudicle and rounded disc, both containing 

 pollen grains. 



