184 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Lip sacrate ovate cuspidate side lubes not distinct, yellow, ^lith pink 

 .spots. Column short broad, foot indistinct adnate to the lip. Anther 

 caudicle tranversclv oblong, disc ovate. Sarcochilus (Ridleipi) notU' 

 hilis, Hook. 111. Fl.' Brit. I'nd. VI. p. 43. Ic. PI. 2Vl^. 



Singapore: Chan Chu Kang, Bukit Mandai (Eidlcy) ; Jolpr; 

 Batu Paliat (Ridley). Endemic. 



57. Dendrocolla, B1. 



Small epiphytes, stems short. Leaves loratc coriaceous or tefete. 

 Scapes erect, -willi a long peduncle, raehis of short raceme thickmed 

 or not. Bracts persistent not distichous. Flowers few opening 

 singly fugacious. Sepals and petals usually spreading free. Lip 

 broad often convolute and pubescent side lobes small or indistiii<;t, 

 spur none. Column short and thick foot narrow. Pollinia 3, cau- 

 dicle very small or absent, disc large. Capsule linear. 



Species about 20. Burniah, Ceylon, Malay Islands. 



Leaves iiliform .. .. .. .. 1. D. filiformis. 



Leaves lorate. Lip pubescent. 



Bracts subulate recurved . . . . 2. D. partialis. 



Bracts ovate acute. 



Lip midlobe very snuill truncate. Flow- 

 ers pale yellow side lobes short . . 3. D. IricJioglottis. 



Flowers pure wliite side lobes large . . 4. Z). alba. 



Lip midlobe linear . . . . . . o. D. maculata. 



Lip midlobe ovate no callus . . . . Q. D. ciliatum. 



Lip midlobe ovate w'ith a woolly callus . . 1. D. carnosa. 



Lip glabrous, side lobes distinct linear. 



Stem and scape long . . . . . . 8. 2). carinaiifolia. 



Stem and scape .short . . . . . ; 9. D. psiloglotiis. 



I. D. riLiFORA[is, Iiidl. Journ. Linn. See. XXXIL 382. Stems 

 2-4 inches long, slender. Leaves few terete slender acute G inches 

 long siieaths luilf an inch long. Scapes slender 3 inches long, raceme 

 across, pedicel and ovary ^ inch across. Sepals lanceolate obtuse. 

 Petals a little smaller, white. Lip much shorter, side lobes erect 

 rounded orange, midlobe oblong elliptic Heshy yellow, pulverulent. 

 Column rather long foot short. Anther oblong (juadrate, thin flat 

 2 celled, disc transverse connecting the two subreniform pollinia. 

 iSarrochihis /ill f unit is. Hook. iil. Fl. Brit. Jnd. \i. p. SO. Ic. PI. t. 

 212L 



Singapore: Bukil Mandai, etc. (Iiidlfv) ; Pcrak (King's Col- 

 lector) . Ludemic. 



