208 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



71. CouYMBis. I'liouars. 



Tall tt-'iTostrial plants ^vitll leafy stems. Leaves plieate broad 

 Flowers white in short sessile axillary panicles. Sepals and petals 

 narrow linear spathulate, at lirst cohering in a tube with spreading 

 tips. Lip linear spathulate erect from the column base. Cohnnn as 

 long as the petals, erect terete with two ears at the apex. Anther lan- 

 ceolate acuminate. Pollinia 2 narrowly pyriform on a linear caudiclo 

 with an ovate disc. Kostcllum shortly bilid. Capsule fusiform, with 

 the persistent column. 



Species 5 or G described, all closely allied, and possibly nearly 

 all one species. Africa, India, Malaya and Australia. 



C. LONGi FLORA, Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VL \)2. Stem G to 10 

 feet tall slender, with large roots. Leaves broadly lanceolate to ovate 

 lanceolate, deep green. Panicle 8 inches long flowers white fragrant. 

 Bracts ovate acuminate | inch long. Ovary erect i inch long. Petals 

 and sepals linear spathulate acuminate 2 inches long, edges of i)etals 

 crisped. Lip nearly as long s{)athulate claw tubular. Cohnnn 

 shorter. Anther brown cuneate. Capsule an inch long subtriangular 

 with waved ridges when ripe. C. rlnjlldocarpa, Hook. ill. I.e. p. S)'l. 



Singapore: Pulau Ubin (Ridley 3037). Chan Chu Kang (IJidley 

 fi::)G); Malacca: Selandor (Native Coll.); Perak : Larut Hills 

 (King's Coll. Gy88), (Wray 41»0 and 3907), Balang Padang (King's 

 Coll. 8014, 7925), Kuram Valley (Curtis) : Dindings: (Junong Tun- 

 gul (Pidley) ; Selangor: Kwala Lumpur Caves (Ridley 8128). 

 Native Xanie "' Lulumba Paya-" In forests. Only differs from C. 

 i-erairifulia, Bl. in the proportions of the iiower and the undulation 

 of the ribs of the fruit. 



C. BRKViSTYLis, Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. Vol. VI. 91. Stem 1 to 

 2 feet slender. leaves elliptic acuminate subpetioled, 7 nerved o-ii 

 inches long, 2-3 inches broad. Panicles few flowered. Column ^ 

 inch long. Fruit 1 inch long. 



Perak: Kwala Dipang on Innestone rocks (King's Collector 

 8248). Endemic. 



12. Tropiuia, Bl. 



Stems erect wiry, leafy. Leaves lanceolate acuminate. Panicles 

 or raceme.s short axillary or terminal. Flowers small green or white. 

 Sepals and petals subeipial connivi'ut. Up entire saccatte at base. 

 Coluuiu sh(»rt. Anther lanceolate Polliiiia I elongate pyriform 

 with a long slender cau<licle and ovale disc liostelhim triangular 

 bilid. Capsule cylindric. 



Species G to «. Indian, Malayan, Chinese. 



