Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 153 



blunt violet purple. Column olive yellow stout with two bosses at the 

 base. Eostollum rather long incurved. Stigma large ovoid. Rev. 

 Hort. ISrr. t. lOT. Williams Orchid Album VII. t. 21. Floral Maga- 

 zine X. S. t. 258. Cogniaux Diet. Icon. Plial. PI. 5. Hooker. Bot. Mag. 

 7196. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 31. P. antcnnifcra, Echb. fil. Gard. 

 Chron. 1878. 398. 1S82. 520. P. Buyssoniana, Echb. fil. Gard. Chron. 

 1888. p. 295. 



Lankawi Islands (Curtis) ; Kedah: Setul (Ellis) ; Patani (Anan- 

 dale). Distrib. Burmah, Cochin China and Siam. 



42. DoRiTis. 



Epijihytes, with the habit of Phalaenopsis with usually small 

 flowers, the column sometimes and the foot longer and forming a 

 mentum with the side lobes of the lip. 



Species about 5, Indian and Malayan. 



D. WiGHTii, Benth. Gen. PI. III. 574. Leaves few 2-3 oblanceo- 

 late thinly coriaceous 6 inches long 2 inches wide. Inflorescence pani- 

 cled with few branches, 7 inches long, rachis thickened. Flowers | 

 inch across. Bracts very small ovate. Pedicel and ovary | inch 

 long. Upper sepal oblong acute, laterals larger obtuse curved. Petals 

 smaller, all white tipped green. Lip side lolies obovate cuneate round- 

 ed white with violet rose streaks, midlobe obcordate refuse violet pink, 

 with a bifid callus white, between the side lobes mentum very short. 

 Column curved pink. Anther beaked. Pollinia globose, pedicel long 

 dilated upwards disc oval. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 32. Ann. Bot. 

 Gard. Calc. V. 59. King and Prain. Vol. 8. 265. Phalaenopsis 

 }Yightii, Echb. fil. Bot. Zeit. 1862. 214. Ph. alboviolacea, Eidley 

 Trans. Limi. Soc. III. p. 373. Aerides latifolium, Thw. Enum. 430. 



Malacca: Bukit Bangkong (Derry) ; Pulau Tinman (W. Nan- 

 ^son) ; Perak: Larut Hills (Stephens), (Curtis), Lankawi (Curtis). 

 Distrib. India, Burmah, Ceylon. Eather rare. 



43. Staurochilus, Eidl. 



Epiphyte, stem tall climbing with its long roots. Leaves dis- 

 tichous lorate, apex bilobed, coriaceous. Eaceme lateral. Flowers 

 large, expanded. Sepals oblong, laterals falcate. Petals narrower. 

 Lip spurless short side lobes short erect, midlobe 3 lobed. Column 

 short thick, with erect arms. Anther ovate beaked, Pollinia 2 on 

 a spathulate caudicle, with an elliptic disc. 



Species 1. Siamese and Malayan. 



S. FASCiATA, Eidl. Journ. Linn. Soc. XXXII. 350. Stem stout. 

 Leaves 5 inches long \-% inch wide ol^tuse, sheaths ^ inch long, ribbed. 

 Eaceme 4-6 inches long, rachis grooved. Bracts ovate acute persis- 

 tent. Flowers l|-2 inches across fragrant, ovary and pedicel % incli 



