Materials for a Flora of the Malaijan Peninsula. 115 



2. T. Matngayi, Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. V. 822. Ic. PI. 2094. 

 Stem stout covered with leaf fibres. Leaf elliptic lanceolate, acu- 

 minate, strongly nerved 8 inches long by 1^-2 wide, petiole short 

 and thick 1 inch long. Scape stout about "2 feet tall. Flowers about 

 7 deep purple. Bracts lanceolate acuminate f inch long. Pedicel and 

 ovary as long. Sepals lanceolate with a long point, 2 inches long. 

 Petals shorter. Lip 3 lobed pubescent, laterals lobes truncate oblong 

 toothed, midlobe ovate acuminate acute sides toothed, and disc covered 

 with short processes, three strong toothed keels in the disc between the 

 side lobes. Column slender long, foot rather short. 



Selangor: Bukit Kutu (Eidley) ; Perak: Bujong Malacca 

 (Curtis 3290) ; Penang (Maingay) ; Kedah: Gunong Jerai (Ridley). 

 In rocky woods, at an elevation of 2-3,000 feet. 



3. T. LATiLiNGUA, Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. V. 822. Ic. PI. 2093. 

 Leaf elliptic acute, 8 inches long, 2^ inch wide, petiole as long. Scape 

 lt^-2 feet long, flowers numerous. Bracts narrow as long as the ovary. 

 Flowers an inch across. Sepals and petals and linear blunt about 

 equal, falcate. Lip orbicular, lateral lobes short blunt, midlobe orbi- 

 cular ridges 3 crenulate on the disc. Column as long as the foot. 

 Anther hemispheric. Pollinia equal. 



Perak (Scortechini). 



4. T. ATROPURPDREA, Ridl. Journ. Linn. Soc. XXXII. 315. 

 Ehizome succulent. Leaves ovate deeply cordate subacute 6 inches 

 long 4 inches wide petiole thick 4 inches long. Scape a foot tall. 

 Flowers an inch across. Bracts linear -acuminate, longer than the 

 pedicel. Sepals lanceolate acute. Petals as long and broader, all 

 purple, or olive green with red streaks. Lip ovate acute obscurely 

 lobed, lobes rounded, purple with the tip dark brown or Avhite with 

 brown spots base yellow, eight raised nerves and three parallel keels 

 in the centre. Column rather short stout straight, foot longer wings 

 rather large. NepldapliyUum grandiflorum. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. 

 VI. p. 192. Ann. Eov. Bot. Card. Calc. V. 23. PL 34. Ic. YIII. 105. 

 PL 144. Ipsea Wrayana, Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. V. 812. Ic. PL 

 2085. 



Perak: Larut Hills (Kunstler, Curtis, Ridley). Distrib. Sikkim. 



Apparently various in colour, but all I have seen were of a deep 

 almost uniform purple. Ipsea Wrayana, Hook. fil. cannot I think 

 be an Ipsea, The specimens and figure seem to me to be closely allied 

 to or identical with this plant. 



19. AscoTAixiA, RidL 



Terrestrial pseudobulbs large conic bearing a lanceolate petiolate 

 leaf. Scape from the rhizome erect tall. Flowers medium size race- 

 mose. Sepals lanceolate, laterals free no mentum. Petals smaller. 



