Materials for a Mora of the Malayan Peninsula. 14? 



Pollinia 4 caudicle broad oblong. Capsule narrow ellipsoid f inch 

 long not reticulate. 



Perak: Bindings at Lumut (Ridley 10293); Lankawi: Kwah 

 (Eidley and Curtis 8301). Distrib. Siam. 



36. Leucolena, Eidl. 



Leafless saphrophyte, with an elongate fusiform rhizome. Stem 

 erect slender with a few scattered sheaths, raceme few flowered. 

 Flowers small, upper sepal lanceolate obtuse, laterals conic. Petals 

 adnate to upper sepal. Lip base narrow apex bilobed with a short 

 median tooth. Column long with very long decurved arms. Anther 

 ovate papillose attached to the top of the column by a very long fila- 

 ment. Pollinia 2 pyriform on a single quadrate disc. 



Species 1. 



L. ORNATA, Eidl. Journ. Linn. Soc. XXVIL p. 340. PI. 43. Stem 

 9 to 13 inches tall olive coloured, succulent. Flowers about 7. The 

 upper sepal and petals I inch long olive green, -| inch long, laterals 

 sepals olive colour with two darker streaks, and a rosy base. Lip 

 white, centre raised violet. Column white. 



Malacca: in dense dark woods Bukit Sadanen (Derry). Lower 

 woods of the Ophir range (Eidley). Eare. The affinity of this plant 

 is altogether obscure. 



37. LuisiA, Gaud. 



Epiphytes stems terete rigid. Leaves elongate terete. Flowers 

 few on short lateral spikes, small. Bracts very short thick persistent. 

 Sepals subequal. Petals often narrower, and longer. Lip sessile on 

 the base of the column, lateral lobes small, midlobe oblong or rounded, 

 flat spurless. Column very short. Anther two celled. 



Species 15. India, Malaya and Pacific Islands. 

 Petals not much longer than the sepals . . 1. L. brachystachys. 

 Petals much longer than sepals. 



Lip shorter than sepals .. .. .. 2. L. antennifera. 



Lip longer than sepals , . . . . . d. L. tristis. 



1. L. BRACHYSTACHYS, Bl. Eumphia IV. 50. Mus. Bot. I. 64. 

 Stem stout slightly flexuous, 3 inches long ^ inch through, sheaths ^ 

 inch long, roots stout and stifl:. Leaves 4-6 inches long blunt. 

 Eaceme short ^ inch long with short clasping sheaths. Flowers 3-4 

 small, pedicel and ovary slender ^ inch long. Upper sepal oblong 

 ovate -g inch long, laterals lanceolate. Petals lanceolate subacute 

 broad, little larger than the sepals, all green edge pink. Lip fleshy 

 oblong ovate blunt entire, with a large depression at the base dark 



