Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 209 



Flower spikes sessile. Bracts short . . 1. 2\ sqainatu. 

 Flower s})ikes peduiieled. Bracts long . . 2. 'I\ Maiiifjajjl. 

 Flower spike terminal dense, peduncled . . 3. T. angu/osa. 



1. T. SQUAMATA, Bl. Orcli. Arch. Ind. p. 120. t. 41. .Stems 

 slender about a foot or 18 inclies tall. Leaves lanceolate acuminate 

 plicate variable, G-8 inches long 1-1^ inch wide. Kacemes axillary or 

 Bubterminal i inch long, crowded with l)road ovate ribbed bracts. 

 Flowers I inch long greenish-white, scented. Sepals lanceolate fal- 

 cate. Petals narrower linear falcate. Lip saccate tip lanceolate. 

 Anther lanceolate acuminate. Pollinia elongate pyriform. T, gra- 

 mlnco, Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. XXXIL 03. 



Singapore: Bukit Timah, Bukit Mandai, Cliua Cliu Kang (Kid- 

 ley 8786); Johor: Batu Pahat (Ridley); Malacca: Mount Ophir 

 (Griflith), (Piidley 31:33); Selangor: Ginting Bidai (Kidley ?;8I), 

 Bukit Ilitam (Kelsall) ; Perak : Larut Hills (Piidley 5195), (Wray 

 322?) ; Kedali : Gunong Jerai (Ridley 5129). Distrib. Borneo. 

 Not rare but seldom found in flower. Dense woods to about 30UU 

 feet alt. Flowers are scented of vannila. 



2. T. Maixgayi, Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 93. Stem 12-18 

 inches long- licaves elliptic lanceolate acuminate. Spikes terminal 

 and axillary. Peduncle H-2 inches long flexuous sheaths. Bracts 

 variable lower ones li inch long. Flowers \ inch long. Sepals ob- 

 long ovate acute. Petals ol)liquely obloiig. Lip with median and 

 intramarginal huneljae from the l)ase to the acute tip. 



Malacca: Mount Ophir (Maingay). 



3. T. axcu'Losa. Bl. Orch. Arch. Ind. I'i'i. Stem slender 

 branched 8-12 inches long, Ix'aves 2 or 3 terminal broad ovate acu- 

 juinate many nerved base rounded 3-') inches long, ]-3 inches wide. 

 Spike terminal dense, peduncled 3-4 inches long. Bracts \'% incli 

 long narrow. Flowers nearly ;| inch long greenish white. Fpj)er 

 sepal linear lanceolate acute, laterals lanceolate connate to near the 

 acuminate tips. Petals narrower, blunt. Lip oblong ovate blunt, 

 two lamellate nerves in the centre, base s])urred. Column shorter 

 than the long- narrow acuminate rostellum. Anther lanceolate acu- 

 minate. Pollinia clubbed Avith a long caudicle and linear gland. 

 Capsule J inch long. Hook. fil. Fl. Biit. Jnd. VI. 92. King Ann. 

 Koy. Bot. Gard. Cale. YIIL 2<.5. PI. .")G."). 7'. (Jorindoril, T. senii- 

 lihera, Bl. l.c.c. Ciieinidui angu/osa and C. sPiuUihcra, Ijindl. (ien. 

 and Sp. Oi-ch. ]'l. 1G3. (iorhidurin iirrroso, Wight. Ic. t. 2090. 



Perak; Ipoh (Curtis) rare. l.Ustrib. India, Burmah. 



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