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Flowers 6 or 7 distant pendulous reversed. Bracts linear. Sepals 

 and petal linear, purplish green. Lip white obscurely 3 lobed, side 

 lobes short blunt, midlobe ovate truncate undulate, with a tuft of 

 purple processes in the centre, spur clubbed purple. Column stout. 

 Anther truncate knobbed. Bl. Orch. Ai-ch. Ind. 1?2. t. 61. fig. 2. De 

 Vr. 111. Orch. t. 13. fig. 3. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. V. 819. 



Perak (Scortechini) ; Kcdah: Gunong Jerai (Kidley). Distrib. 

 Java, Borneo. In mossy spots about 4000 feet elevation. 



Excluded Species. 

 N. grandiforum, Hook, fil. Tainia atropurpiirea, Eidl. ? 



21. Spatiioglottis, Bl. 



Terrestrial, pseudobulbs conic 1-3 leaved. Leaves long pctiolcd 

 narrow plicate. Scape lateral. FloAvers large showy yellow or crim- 

 son in lax racemes. Sepals free subequal. Petals similar or larger. 

 Lip sessile, 3 lobed side lobes erect midlobe clawed, disc tubercled at 

 base. Column long graceful arched, above dilate two winged, no foot. 

 Anther 2 celled. Pollinia 8. 



Species about ten India, China, Malaya, Australia and Pacific 

 Isles. 

 Petals broad. 



Flowers rose, or white, large plants 



Flowers yellow 

 Petals narrow, small plant 



1. S. PLICATA, Blume Bijdr. 401. t. 76. Pseudobulb conic cover- 

 ed with fibres of old leaves. Leaves 2-4 feet long by 1-3 inches wide, 

 lanceolate plicate petiole 6-18 inches long. Scape 12 incbes long to 

 6 feet long, stout. Eaceme many flowered. Bracts pink ovate or 

 lanceolate. Flowers an inch across, crimson rarely lilac or white, self 

 fertilized. Ovary and pedicel 1 inch long. Sepals ovate ol)long 

 acute. Petals broader. Lip lateral lobes oblong truncate apices 

 thickened: calli, one obcuneate refuse hairy yellow, witb two small 

 white lobes on the sides; midlobe, base narrow apex dilated cuneate 

 reniform emarginate. Cokimn slender curved. Capside oblong pen- 

 dulous. Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. PI. 119. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. 

 V. 813. S. niacina, Griff. Notul. III. 323. Ic. PI. As. t. 311 fil. 3. 

 Bhtia angustifolia, Gaud. Freyc. Voy. Bot. 421. t. 32. Open country 

 and wet rocks, whole peninsula, common. 



Singapore (Wallich 3743), Common (Pidley, etc.) ; Johor near 

 the town; Sungei Ujong: Sereniban (Kidley); Selangor: Sungei 

 Biduh (Kidley 10513); Malacca (Griffith), Sungei Hudang (Derry 

 98); Perak: Larut Hills (Kidley 3268); Kemaman (Johnston). 



var. aJba, flowers and bracts wliite, Dindings, Pulau Sembilan. 

 Distrib. Malay Islands to Philii)pines and Xew Guinea, and Samoa. 



