176 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Pemnsuh. 



bases yellow, with crimson transverse streaks. Lip shorter narrow 

 sigmoid, flattened laterally, side lobes low with two short points, mid- 

 lobe ovate small, spur long curved upwards, clul)bed, all white. Co- 

 lumn foot very short, dilated upwards. Anther ovate beaked. Polli- 

 nia subreniform, caudicle oblanceolate cuneate, disc small shield 

 shaped. Hook. lil. Ann. ]^y. Bot. Gard. Calc. V. 41. PL 62. S. 

 sigmoideus, Eidl. Journ. Linn. Soc. XXXI. 298. 



Perak (Scortechini), Distrib. Borneo, Sumatra. 



5. S. TAXYPiiYLLUS, Iiidl. Trans. Linn. Soc. II. 3. 372. Stem 

 very short hardly an inch long stout. Leaves 4 or 5 lorate 1 to nearly 

 2 feet long, an inch and a half across, unequally bluntly bilobed. 

 Kacemes 4-5 inches long hardly dilate above. Bracts persistant lan- 

 ceolate YViiifh long. Flowers white rather large pedicels one inch 

 long. Sepals lanceolate acuminate acute. Petals broader lanceolate 

 subacute. Lip shorter, side lobes lorate falcate blunt small, spur conic 

 blunt. Column short foot with a narrow erect base then abruptly 

 deflexed. Anther beaked. Pollinia elliptic pedicel cuneate oblong, 

 disc broad triangular. Postellum with two long linear acuminate 

 points. Capsule rather short oblong IJ- inch. 



Pahang: limestone rocks Kota Glanggi (Ridley). 



6. S. viKESCEXs, Eidl. Journ. Eoy, As. Soc. Str. Br. Vol. 

 XXXVII. p. 85. Stem very short. Leaves lanceolate subacute 1^ 

 inch long 1^ inch wide or less. Eaceme 1 inch long, bracts ovate. 

 ^lo^^'ers 1 inch across. Sepals ovate acute. Petals narrower lanceo- 

 late, all light green. Lip very short white, side lobes short rounded, 

 midlobe represented ])y an orange callus, spur short broad conic. 

 Column short and thick, foot as long curved. Anther orange beak 

 triangular. 



Perak: Tapah (Aeria) drawing in Herb. Penang. Endemic. 

 This little species is allied to S. viridi/lorus, Hook. lil. of Ceylon which 

 has a larger lobed callus on the lip and blunt sepals and petals. 



7. S. BiSERRATUS^ Eidl. Journ. Bot. 1900. p. 73. Stems crowded 

 slender 3-4 inches long. Leaves narrowly linear lanceolate acute 

 fleshy 4 inches long ^ inch wide, sheaths -l inch long. Eacemes 

 flattened G inches long ^ inch wide. Flowers disticiious -| inch across, 

 very numerous but appearing singly. Bracts ovate very small. 

 Pedicel ^ inch long. Upper sepal lanceolate acute, laterals oblique. 

 Petals narrower, all yellow white, Lip side lobes linear acute curved 

 outwai-ds midlobe minute, spur long conic horn shaped porrect ] ineh 

 long, all white except the mouth of tlie spur violet. Column slender 

 straight white Hjot short. Anlliei" o\ate orangr. Pollinia globose, 

 caudicle linear disc very small ovate. 



Perak near Ipoh (Eidley 10156). Endemic. 



