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1. Ph. cornu-cervi, Par. and Echb. fil. Hamb. Garteiw. 1860. 

 116. Stem short. Leaves 5-6 lorate obtuse 6 inches long 1 inch wide. 

 Scapes over a foot long or short, base terete, rachis often branched 

 flattened racemes 3 inches long flexuous. Bracts ovate subacute. 

 Ovary and pedicel an inch long. Sepals lanceolate, laterals acute f 

 inch long. Petals shorter and narrow^er, all yellow with brown 

 blotches. Lip ^ inch long, side lobes oblong erect white with violet 

 spots inside, midlobe reniform, or ovate acute, white, callus at base 

 of midlobe tooth-like violet with a long slender forked process at 

 its base. Column with a short foot, tall yellow, two red processes at 

 the base. Anther conic. Pollinia subglobose with a long slender 

 caudicle. Eostellum long and narrowly bifid. Eolfe. Gard. Chron. 

 1886. II. 276. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 29. Polychilus cornucervi, 

 Breda. Orch. Jav. t. I. Bot. Mag. t. 5570. 



Sungei Ujong: Jelebu (Davison) ; Seremban (Braddon) ; Perak 

 (Scortechini) ; Lankawi (Curtis). Distrib. Burmah, Sumatra, Java, 

 Borneo, Siam. 



Very variable in size of flowers and length of scape, a hybrid 

 between this species and P. violacea has been found more than once 

 in Perak, and is perhaps the plant described as P. Valentini, Echb. fil. 

 Gard. Chron. 1886. p. 262. 



2. P. VIOLACEA, Teysm. and Binn. Bat. Tijdschr. XXIV. 10. 

 Leaves elliptic or oblanceolate acute. Scape 3-12 inches long, stout, 

 bracts ovate acute. Flowers 1-3 inches across, rachis thickened some- 

 times branched. Sepals lanceolate, laterals broader oblique. Petals 

 smaller oblanceolate, cream white more or less marked purple. Lip 

 narrow side lobes oblong truncate, midlobe spathulate or obovate 

 violet purple, a single bifid callus at its base. Column rather long. 

 Anther conic. Capsule cylindric 5 inches long. Echb. fil. 1878. 11. 

 234. 1881. II. 145. fig. 32. 187. Eolfe. Gard. Chron. 1886. II. 277. 

 Williams Orchid Album t. 182. (var. Murtoniana), 111. Hort. 1855. 

 173. (var. Schroderi), Hook. fil. l.e.c. 29. Staiiritis violacea, Echb. 

 fil. Hamb. Gartenz. 1802. 34. 



var. typica. Sepals and petals carnation with green tips, side 

 lobes of lip yellow dotted purple, lip purple. 



Perak ( Scortechini ) . 



var. Murtoniana, Echb. fil. Sepals and petals cream yellow, 

 inner half of sepals purple, side lobes orange. 



Perak: Kinta (Murton) ; Bidor (Curtis). Distrib. Sumatra. 



3. Ph. sumatrana, Korth. and Echb. fil. Hamb. Gartenz. XVI. 

 1860 p. 115. Leaves five or six oblanceolate obtuse, a foot long, and 

 4 inches wide, shining. Scapes several a foot long, rachis flattened 4 

 angled, sometimes branched, about 6 inches long. Bracts ovate cym- 



biform ^ inch long. Flowers 2 inches across fragrant. Upper sepal 



