Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 145 



Column curved white edges purple, liood ovate entire. Anther white 

 pustular. Capsule erect sessile 3 inches long. 



Singapore: Bukit Panjang, Bukit Timali (Ridley); Pahang: 

 Talian Piiver (Kidley) ; Mount Ophir (Eidley). 



5. B. BEEYiroLiA, Eidl. Journ. Linn. Soc. XXXII. p. 340. 

 Stems several in a tuft 6-8 inches long flattened, covered with dis- 

 tichous lanceolate acute deep green leaves erect ^i incli long, ^ inch 

 wide. Flowers from a terminal tuft of hracts, 4 an inch long, ovary 

 and pedicel red ^ inch long. Sepals lanceolate acuminate, acute, rosy. 

 Petals shorter whitish yellow hairy at the base, disc between them 

 spotted red, midlobe ovate white, centre yellow. Column slender, 

 hood bilobed. Capsule pyriform ^ inch long. 



Perak: Hermitage Hill (Ridley), Larut Hills (Ridley). Dis- 

 trib. Borneo. 



0. B. PUXGEXS, Ridl. l.c.c. Stems 6 to- S inches long flattened. 

 Leaves ensiform flat stiff pungent, erect. Racemes 1 inch long almost 

 covered with In'own bracts. Flowers 1^ inch across, pedicels as long. 

 Sepals lanceolate acute yellowish. Petals narrower white. Lip ob- 

 long with indistinct side lobes, midlobe emarginate crisped with a 

 yellow lobed thick central callus. Column nearly straight. Anther 

 oblong flat. 



Malacca: Mount Ophir (Ridley). 



7. B. APOROiUEs, Rchb. fil. Otia. Bot. Hamb. p. 44. Epiphyte, 

 tufted. Stems numerous 4 inches long. Leaves ensiform stiff re- 

 curved 4 inches long ^ inch wide. Racemes very short crowded hardly 

 »2 inch long with numerous brown lanceolate bracts. Flowers about 

 an inch across. Sepals lanceolate acute yellowish. Petals smaller. 

 Lip as long ol.ilong pandurate, side lobes obtuse with the median line 

 clcA'ated to the base of the midlobe yellow, midlobe oblong o])tuse 

 crisi)ed whitish with two purple spots at the Ijase and a central low 

 orange coloured spathulate callus. Column slender hood refuse. Rid- 

 ley Journ. Linn, Soc. XXVIII. p. 338. 



Singapore: Bukit Timah (Ridley); Malacca: Mount Ophir 

 (Hidley); Perak (Scortechini), Hermitage Hill (Ridley). Distrib. 

 Burmah, Sumatra. 



8. B. sciKPOiDEA, Ridl. Journ. Bot. 1900. p. 71. Epiphyte, 

 Stems slender flat, 6 inches long. Leaves 4 to 5 narrow flat curved 

 pungent 4^ inches long ^^ inch wide. Racemes several ^ inch long 

 crowded in a head with numerous ovate imljricate bracts. Flowers 

 an inch across, pedicels | inch long. Sepals lanceolate acute, yellowish 

 with a median line. Petals broader pale yellow. Lip side lobes ovate 

 yellowish with purple dots, midlobe yellow with two pink spots. 

 Column thin broad. 



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