124 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



1. A. SPECIOSA, Blnme Bijdr. p. 401. t. 73. Stems 3 to 7 feet 

 tall slender. Leaves narrow linear acuminate 2-4 inches long, -^ inch 

 wide. IJaceme 0-8 inches long, few flowered. Bracts ovate acute ^ 

 inch long. Ovarv and pedicel 1 inch long. Sepals lanceolate l| 

 inch long ^ inch Avide, keeled, rose pink. Petals ovate, mucronatc as 

 long and twice as ])road, pink. T^ip longer 2 inches ol)long side lobes 

 short, midlobe bilobed crisped, rose colour with deep crimson apex and 

 edges, a yellow central line, keels 3 on the disc. Column white an inch 

 long. Capsule oblong 3 inches long. A. hauihusifoUa, Lindl. Bot. 

 Eeg. XXVII. Misc. 2. Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 22. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 

 PL 12.5. Wight Ic. t. IGGl. Gritf. Notul. III. 329. 331. Ic. PI. As. t. 

 5"14. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. V. 857. A. dema, Lindl. Bot. Peg. 

 XXYIII. t. 38. Misc. 2(J. Journ. Linn. Soc. III. 23. A. deiisiflora. 

 Hook. fil. l.c.c. Cijiiihidiiiin hcniihusifo/iitni, lloxh. Fl. Ind. 111. 460. 

 Blclia graiiiinifolia, Don. Prodr. 29. 



Johor: Gunong Janeng (Kelsall), Tndau Piver (Pidlev) ; Pa- 

 hang: Tahan Piver (Pidlev 20r)2) ; Malacca: Mount Opliir' (Derry 

 (j42) ; Perak : Kinta. On rocks in streams. r)i:;trib. India, Borneo, 

 Java. 



The locality Singapore given in Floi'a of British Lidia must l)e 

 an error. There is no place in Singapore likely to have produced it. 



2. A. PiiiLiPPii, lichb. ill. Linnaea XXV. 227. var. Mdldi/aiui. 

 Stems about three feet tall. JA^aves linear acuminate I inches lung J 

 inch broad. Paccme 2 inches long. Bracts ovate ;i inch long. 

 Flowers 2 inches across, ovary and pedicel one inch long. Sepals 

 lanceolate acute. Petals similar wider, white tinted rose. Lip short- 

 ci", side lobes oblong rounded, midlobe orbicular obovate bilobeci 

 lobes rounded, pinkish white, with brown streaks on the side lobes, 

 apex of midlobe dark crimson, keels two crested on the disc tbickened 

 and connate ol ^be midlobe yellow pubescent with a smaller median 

 one in the centre. Column apex curved thickened, back white, front 

 brown and red wings narrow. 



Kedah Peak: Gunong derai (Pidley 5128) on rocks. Difl'ers 

 from A. rhilippil typical in its large brown-streaked flowers. Dis- 

 ti'ib. of type, Java, llongkong. 



3. A. liEVOLUTA, Hook. fd. Fl. Brit. Ind. V. 858. Stems about 

 3 feet tall slender, Ijcaves linear long acuminate ratlnu- stilf 4-7 

 inches long J -| inch wide, rather crowded. ]\aceme 1-2 inches long. 

 Bi-acts ovate acute inch long. Ovary and pedicel 1 inch long. 

 St'pals lanceolate acute 1^ inch long \ incii broad pale violet rose. 

 l*etals oldong acute as long and nearly twice as broad. Lip a little 

 longei", side lobes not distinct midlobe bihtbed with a median tooth, 

 keels 2 low and straight, median one very low and (tbseiire whole lip 



