Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 211 



on short free pedicels. Column arms short hroad. Anther bluntly 

 ovoid. PoUinia short and thick. Capsule ovoid nearly -^ inch long. 



Singapore: Bukit Timah (Eidley 168G, 2033, 3927, 6905); 

 Johor: Batu Pahat, Gunong Panti (Ridley); Perak (Scortcchini 

 lil7). 



2. Y. ALBiDA, Bl. Orch. Arch. Ind. PI. 75. t. 19. f. 2. Stem 3-4 

 inches long. Leaves tufted at the top lanceolate acute undulate green 

 3 inches long by | inch wide, petiole I inch long. Spike very dense 

 conic almost sessile, an inch long. Bracts lanceolate acuminate 

 glandular pubescent longer than the ovary. Flowers numerous small, 

 green and purplish at the base white above withering yellow, fragrant. 

 Upper sepal and petals narrow lanceolate obtuse, lateral sepals with a 

 gibbous base. Lip narrow, shorter, glabrous oblong lanceolate obtuse 

 edges incurved spur swollen in the middle tapering to the point with 

 two short clubbed glands (stigmata). Column short and thick arms 

 erect short blunt. Anther ovate. Pollinia 2 thick clubbed with a 

 large shield-shaped disc. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. p. 90. Eiaeria 

 alhida, Bl. Bijdr. 410. Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. PI. 491. 



Singapore : Chua Chu Kang, Bukit Mandai, Bukit Timah (Ridley 

 G906) ; Johor: Batu Pahat (Ridley); Perak: Batang Padang 

 (Wray). Distrib. Java. Common in damp woods by streams. 



3. V. TEisTiATA, Ridley Journ. Linn. Soc. XXXII. 398. Stem 

 G inches long. Leaves ovate acui;e 11 inch long ^ inch wide, olive 

 coloured with three pink stripes. Spikes subsessile shorter than the 

 leaves dense. Bracts lanceolate acuminate reddish. Flowers small 

 white glal^rous. Sepals lanceolate oblong, laterals vsomewhat oblique. 

 Petals adnate to the upper sepal. Lip shorter lanceolate tongue- 

 shaped obtuse, with a pustular cushion in the middle, spur elongate 

 saccate, glands yellow globose pedicelled, adnate to the spur for half 

 its length. 



Singapore: Chan Chu Kang in wet woods (Ridley); Perak: 

 Horuni (Scortcchini V. gracilis, Hook, fil.) is also this plant I 

 believe. Endemic. 



75. Cystoechis, Bl. 



Terrestrial, rarely saprophytic plants. Leaves ovate petioled 

 or absent. Flowers small pubescent. Upper sepal adnate to petals 

 laterals larger. Lip clawed side lobes involute, midlobe distinct or 

 not, base spurred. Column short, stigma broad. Anther ovate. 

 Pollinia 2 deeply grooved on an ovate disc. 



Species 3 or 4. Malayan. 



Leaves ovate lanceolate . . . . . . . . 1. C variegata. 



Leafless saprophyte 2. C. aphi/Ua, 



