21:2"' MuieriaJs for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



1. C. VAKiEGATA, Bl. Orcli. Aixh. Ind. 89. t. 24. f. 3. and 38. c. 

 Whole plant 6-18 inches tall. Leaves ovate lanceolate acute crisped, 

 olive green with lighter patches 3 inches long 1 inch hroad or 

 smaller, petiole 1 inch or less. Inflorescence spicate pubescent. 

 Flowers crowded. Bracts lanceolate acuminate red ^ inch long. 

 Ovary shorter. Upper sepal with petals oblong lanceolate, laterals 

 oblong elliptic. Sepals green petals white, with an orange transverse 

 bar pubescent. Lip as long, side lobes involute orange, midlobe 

 ovate narrowed at the base, white. Hook. fil. FI. Brit. Ind. VI. 97. 



Singapore: ivranji, Chan Chu Kang (Iiidlcy 371); Johor: 

 (iunong I'anti (liidlev) ; Selangor: Kwala Selangor (Kidlev), Xegri 

 Sembilan (IJidley 10014); Paliang: Taium Kiver (Iiidlcy): Pcrak 

 (Scortechini) : Batu Ivurau (Curtis); Kedah: Gunong Jcrai (Kid- 

 ley). 



\ai'. /nir/iiirca Ridley. ('. jaranica, Bl. I.e. p. 87. Hook. fil. l.c.c. 

 Ilclacriu jacanka, BL Bijdr. p. 410. Lindl. Gen. and 8p. Orch. PL 

 491. (Aetheria). Leaves deep purple, usually a small plant. 



Singapore, Chua Chu Kang (Ridley); Pahang: Tahan Woods 

 (Ridley). Distrib. Java, Borneo. 



2. C. Ai'HYLLA, Ridl. Journ. Linn. Soc. XXX. 400. A sapro- 

 phyte inches tall, with thick roots, leafless. Stems covered with 

 ovate acuminate sheaths. Flowers f or 5 in a short terminal spike. 

 Bracts lanceolate acuminate acute, shorter than tlie ovary. Sepals 

 lajiceolate acuminate | inch long. Petals shorter and narrower. Lip 

 hinceolatc base saccate, side lobes involute hardly distinct, midlobe 

 bhint. Anther ovate beaked curved upwards. Rostellum al)seut. 



Malacca: Morlimau (Ridley); Selangor: Pahang Track (Ridley 

 S78<)). Endemic. 



lii. Anaectociiilus. Blunie. 



Terrestrial herbs, with ascending stem, and ovate or lanceolate 

 leaves petioled. Spikes glandular pubescent. Flowers medium or 

 small. rpj)er sepals adnale to jx'tals forming a hood laterals spread- 

 ing. Lip adnate to the base of the column, base saccate or spurred, 

 side lobes erect or spreading, midlobe clawed, the claw often pectinate, 

 blade broadly bilobed lobes divaricate or nearly entire rounded. 

 Column short with two appendages or wings in front. Anther lan- 

 ceolate. JNillinia clubbed on a sliield-shaped disc. Rostellum bifid 

 long. Stigmata 2 pustular on either side of the rostellum. 



Species about 20. ludo Malayan and Chinese. This genus as 

 cow emended includes Odontochilas, Bl. and Mijrmcchiif, Bl. 



