2-16 Maler'wl'i for a Flora of the Malayan Penhisiita. 



dark green reticulated willi gold, petiole \ iiieli long. Flowering 

 stem 2-6 inches long jiiilieseent. Flowers about 12, small pubescent. 

 Bracts lanceolate as long as the ovary. Sepals lanceolate blunt 

 reddish glandular pubescent. Petals linear shorter and nan-ower 

 glabrous. Lip as long pandurate twisted, side lobes curved up 

 rounded midlobe narrow spathidate blunt, with 2 rather large fleshy 

 hooks, at the base of the lip. Column short with two large parallel 

 laminae below the stigma. Author elongate lanceolate beaked 2 

 celled. Pollinia long and narrow long stall^ed ^ inch long. -Blume 

 Orch. Arch. Ind. IIU. t. ;]1. f. 2. t. 36 J). IJchb. til. Xenia. Orch. 11. 

 96. Miq. Choix. des Plantes XVII. fig. 1 Nroilia Petola, Bl. Bijdr. 

 407. fig. 2. 



8inga|)ore: ("iiua Chu Kang (Ridley): Johor: Ounong Panti 

 (Pidley) : Selangor: Paliang Track (Ridley) ; Malacca: Mount Ophir 

 (Ridley); Perak : Cunong Keledang (Ooldham) : Kedah : (Junong 

 .Icrai (Ridley 5132). Distrib. Java. Lingga, 



71>. Hakmaria, Lindl. 



('rec))ing herbs, with ovate or lanceolate petioled leaves. Flowers 

 faii-ly large, racemed, white. Fpper sepal adnate to petals, Torming 

 a large ovate galea lateral sepals oblong ovate spreadiug. Lip spur- 

 less saccate adnate to sides and base of the column, midlobe biloijed. 

 Column dilate upwards. Anther ovate acuminate 2 celled. Pollinia 

 long narrow pyriform. 



Species 1 or 2. Malayan and Chinese. 



IT. DiscoLOU, Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. PI. 490. Stem 4-12 inches 

 tall, fleshy. Leaves ovate or lanceolate acute 1-3 inches long %-\\ 

 broad deep velvety brown with pink midrib and 2 outer veins. Spike 

 3-8 inches tall white pubescent. Bracts lanceolate acuminate i inch 

 long. Overy and pedicel white woolly 5 iufh long. Flowers fragrant 

 while. Lip twisted side lobes short rounded erect, base saccate with 2 

 small glands, midlobe broadiv oblong, lobes divaricate. Anther yellow. 

 Mitj. Chox. PI. t. 16. Hook. til. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. KH. Ludisla 

 discolor, Kich. Diet. Class Xat. Hist. VI. 45:. Blume Orch. Areh. 

 Ind. 113, 114. t. 34. f. 2, 3 and t. 42. Goodyera discolor, Ker Bol. 

 Keg. t. 371. Bot. Mag. 2055. Lodd. Bot. Cale. t. 143. Mi/oda rufes- 

 cciis, Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. PI. 489. Anocrlocliihts Dmrsonianus, 

 Low Card. Chron. 1868. 1038. 



Pulau Tiunuin, Pulau Aoi", Pulau Tinggi (Ridlev) : IVnang Hill 

 (Wallich 7390), Pulau Belong (Curtis). 



var. Ordimia, Williams, f.eaves green with golden veins, var. 

 Otlrhir, II. otleiae, Rolfe. 111. Hort. XXXVIII. p. 31. t. 124. witli 

 jiarrow leaves, occirrs in the l*ulau Tiuuian group of Islands. Distiil.. 

 Cochin China. Hongkong. Xali\e name "■ Daiin Low." The planl 

 usually glows on the i)are I'ocks in slicams. 



