Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 169 



24:. S. FissicoES, ii.sp. Stem 4 or 5 inches long. Leaves linear 

 oblong ronnded cmarginate at the tip 4 to 5 inelies long 1 inch across, 

 rather thickly coriaceous. Inflorescence 10 inches long very slender, 

 l)edunclc G inches long purple. Bi'acts very small ovate. Flowei's 

 rather distinct small, racliis faintly black scurfy simply racemose or 

 with one side branch. Pedicel and ovai'y \ inch long bright yellow 

 green. Sepals ovate oblong ^V i^^c^i long blunt dark red brown. 

 Petals narrower linear similarly coloured. Lip side lobes small erect 

 truncate yellowish midlobe cordate acute, notched on either side, violet 

 with white centre and edge; spur parallel to the pedicel or deflexed 

 and nearly as long cylindric slightly flattened white, callus an oblong 

 ti'uncate fleshy decurved lamina in the mouth, no se})tum. Column 

 rather tall violet, wings ol^scure. Anther white skull shaped truncate 

 cmarginate in front. Pollinia flattened subglobosc orbicular bilobed, 

 jK'dicel flat narrowed aliove and below and slightly dilate in the mid- 

 dle, disc very small oblong. Postellum lobes short, oblong truncate 

 with deflexed points, stigma cordate. 



Perak: Ivamunting (Machado). Flowered in H. B. Singapore 

 1906 December. This species has the habit of *S'. pensile, but the 

 flowers more resemble those of S. Scortechinii. 



25. S. BiCARiNATUM, Eidl. Stem G inches long ^^ inch thick. 

 Leaves lorate bilolDed, flaccid, 7 inches long f inch wide. Panicle of 

 few branches G inches long. Flowers about 20, ] inch across. Pedi- 

 cels I inch long. Bracts minute ovate. Sepals oblong ovate blunt, 

 deep red with a median line and tip green. Petals linear. Lip white 

 side lobes short obtnse, median reniform hastate, spur horn shaped 

 curved blunt ^- inch long, keels in the spur two pubescent upper one 

 and lower one nearly meeting. Column short red arms short erect. 

 Anther yellow. Pollinia oblong, caudicle short and broad, disc oblong 

 with two very low curved arms. Eostellum long deeply bifid. Sar- 

 canthus rosteilatus, Eidl. Journ. Bot. 1900 73. 



Perak: Tambun near Ipoh (Pidley). 



§ 6. Eu-Saccolabium. 



26. S. FissuM, Eidl. Journ. Linn. Soc. XXXII. 361. Stems 

 stout short. Leaves lorate stiffly coriaceous deeply bifid acute, 4 inches 

 long inch wide, sheaths wide ^ inch long. Eacenie 3 inches long, 

 base nude, rachis thickened. Flowers ^ inch across, fleshy, pedicel 

 M-hite. Lip side lobes short ])lunt, midlobe oblong ovate obtuse, white, 

 side lobes and centre of midlobe violet, a hemispheric white callus at 

 the base, spur short blunt thick half as long as the ovary. Column 

 very short, arms rounded incurved. Anther yellow with a violet 

 median line, beaked, caudicle of pollinia spathulate the apex widely 

 triangular, disc ovate. 



Lanka wi Islands (Curtis). 



