Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 183 



Capsule cAlindric 3 inelies long ^ inch through. SarcochiUis aracli- 

 nUes, RchV ill. Walp. Ann. VI. 498. Hook. ill. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 41. 

 Dendrocolh arachnHes, Bl. Bijdr. 287. t. 67. Aerides arachnites, 

 Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Oreh. PI. 238. S. Scopa, Hook. hi. Fl. Brit. Ind. 

 VI. 45. 



Singapore: Tanglin, Scletar (Ridley); Johor: Batu Pahat 

 (Ridey) ; Selangor: Bukit Hitara (Kelsall) ; Perak: Larut (King's 

 Coll. 5777) ; Pcnang (Kunstler). Uistrib. Borneo, Sumatra, Java. 

 Often scrambling on low bushes, or on trees. I can see no characters 

 to distinguish »S. Scopa, Hook. fil. which appears to be merely the 

 elongiite form found on trees. 



G, Tii. CKASSi FOLIUM, Ridley Journ. Roy. As. Soe. Str. Br. Vol. 

 XL|^. p. 32. Whole plant G inches tall with a stout stem and 

 closd set leaves, sheaths under half an inch long purple blade oblong 

 obtise thick leathery apex rounded 4 inches long 1| inch thick. 

 Scales 3 to 5 inches long stiff base purple. Inflorescence IJ to 4 

 inches long. Bracts \ inch long close set flattened ovary and pedicel 

 I inch long. Sepals linear caudate from a broader base f inch long 

 briglit yellow. Petals narrower linear caudate. Lip \ inch long 

 pubescent orange passing into cherry scarlet at the tip, spur saccate 

 blunt side lobes arched blunt midlobe fleshy blunt ovate, callus tonguo 

 shaped rounded at the tip depressed in centre. Column white with 

 rounded broad wings. Anllier hemispheric. Fruit angled linear 3 

 inches long \ inch through. 



Johor on old cotfee trees, at Castlewood (Ridley). Endemic. 

 A plant of the habit of Th. iScortechini with much smaller flov>-ers 

 even than those of Th. arachnites. 



7. Tn. ScoRTECiiixii, Ridl. I.e. Stem G inches long very stout 

 internodes -J inch long. Leaves oblong lorate bilobed coriaceous 4-G 

 inches long 1-14 inch wide. Scape 9 inches long, raceme 2 inches. 

 Bracts close set f inch long. Sepals and petals lanceolate acuminate, 

 2^ inch long | inch wide at the base, yellow. Lip saccate side lobes 

 short midlobe conical obtuse fleshy, yellowish thick mottled with rusty 

 red inside. Pollinia 4 disc lunate caudicle oblong. Surcochilus 

 Scorterhinii, Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 40. 



Perak (Scortechini) ; Kedali: Gunong Jerai (Ridley). En- 

 demic. 



8. T. XOTABILE, Ridl. Journ. Linn. Soc. XXXII. 379. Stem 

 short 2 inches long. Leaves broad lorate or oblong, green or deep 

 purple 3 inches long A-1 inch wide. Scapes very slender about 3 

 inches long, purple, with a few distant sheaths, raceme an inch long. 

 Bracts acute, ovate purple. Flowers .^'-1 inch acj'oss. Scjials linear 

 very narroAv acuminate caudate. Petals similar, yellow or reddish. 



