114 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Bopal 4 i"(l' long ovate lanceolate acute, laterals twisted deflexed. 

 Petals as long lanceolate acute, all orange with red spots. Lip as 

 long and nearly as wide quadrate lleshy, 3 toothed, yellow. Cahinthe 

 giyanica, Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. V. 856. 



Singapore: Bukit Timah (Ridley G907) ; Johor: Tanjong Ku- 

 pang (liidley) ; Malacca : Jus (Goodenough 1505) ; Selangor : Kawang 

 (Eidley), Kwala Lunipor (Curtis); Perak: Ulu Bubong (King's 

 Coll. 10277); Bindings: Ulu Bruas (Curtis). Native name " Gu- 

 lumbak ; " occurs in wet spots in jungle. 



Excluded SrEciES. 



Plocoglottis acuminata, Bl. The plants referred to this species 

 in Fl. Brit. Ind. are P. porpJiyrophylla, liidl. 



18. Tainia, Bl. 



Terrestrial herbs with a shortly creeping stem sometimes slightly 

 swollen, succulent. Leaves herbaceous ovale or lanceolate petiolate 

 solitary on the branches of the stem. Scape tall erect with few rather 

 large flowers, from the creeping stem, lateral sepals adnate to the 

 column foot forming a short mentum. Petals similar. Lip spur- 

 like adnate to the column foot entire or three lobed. Column tall foot 

 short, arms very short. Anther bilobed at the top. Pollinia 8 very 

 unequal. 



Species about 10. India and Malaya. 

 Sepals long acuminate. 



Flowers pale yellow .. .. .. 1. T. speciosa. 



Flowers deep purple . . . . . . 2. T. Maingai/i. 



Sepals lancolate acute. 



Lip broad apex rounded . . . . . . 3. 7\ hilHingna. 



Lip apex ovate acute . . . . . . 4. T. airopurpurca. 



1. T. SPECIOSA, Bl. Bijdr. p. 354. Leaf lanceolate acuminate 6 

 inches long, 1^ wdde, petiole slender 6 inches long. Scapes a foot 

 long. Flowers 5 or 6 pedicels and ovaries ^ inch long. Bracts very 

 narrow linear acuminate 1 inch long. Sepals lanceolate with a very 

 long point Ih inch long greenish yellow witli red lines. Petals similar 

 about as large. Lij) ovate acute entire brigbt yellow with some red 

 streaks on tlie inside. Column long arcbed foot short. Anther tip 

 violet. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. A'. 822. Eria speciosa, Pchb. fil. 

 Walp. Ann. VI. 2G9. Miiupetalum spcciosum, Bl. Fl. Jav. Praef. 8. 

 Mus. Bot. II. 185. Orch. Arch. Ind. 158. t. 50. f. 1. 



Malacca: Mount Opbir (Pidlcy) ; Perak (Scortechini) ; Bujong 

 Malacca (Curtis 32!)), (Umong Batu I'utib (Wray) ; Kcdah: Gunong 

 Jerai (Pidley 5G01). Distrib. Java. In woods at an elevation of 

 2-4,000 feet. 



