224 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



dense with linear acuniinate bracts. Upper sepal adnate to petals. 

 Lip saccate l)ase adnate to tlii; coluinn with several sl)ort processes 

 inside side lobes short, terminal lobes lineai'. Column short, rostellum 

 very deeply bifid, lobes linear. Anther elongate lanceolate acuminate. 

 ]*ollinia pear-sliaped, narrowed into caudicles witli a nai'row linear 

 disc. 



Species 1. Malayan. 



Ij. LON(iiFULiA, ]>1. Orch. Arch. Ind. !J1. Pi. 25. Leaves 1 foot 

 long hmceohite or linear 3 inches across. Scape nearly 3 i'eet long, 

 spicate ]^ortion 1 loot long. Flowers pink. Sepals lanceolate acu- 

 minate \ inch long. Capsule elliptic h inch long. 



Peuang: Penara Bnkit (Curtis 3084). Distrib. Lingga, Java. 



S.J. Sti:ui:o«a.\di!.v, B1. 



A leafless sapi'uphyte with a swollen tuberous rhizome, a tall 

 slen<ler stem aiul secund raceme of pendulous flowers. Bracts lim^ar 

 or linear lanceolate. Pedicels shoi't sepals and petals subsimilar 

 lanceolate connivent. Lip as long similar entire with '2 rounded 

 pulvini at base no spur. Column very short anther large. Pollinia 

 elongate pyrifonn. Ifoslelluni absent. Stigma transversely oblong 

 on a short distinct style, ovary ellipsoid not twisted. Capsule elliptic 

 splitting into '■> ribs held together l)y the ])eiManth at the top. 



Species 1 or 2. Java and Malay Peninsula and Siani. 



S. .i.WAMCA, Bl. Mils. Bot. 2. i:(i. Orch. Arch. Ind. 30. t. 10. lig. 

 ;i. II. (ig. !». Phi/.ome ringed -^-il inch long § inch thi-ough. Stem 

 lo inches tall fleshy pale with 4-5 distant papery sheaths. Raceme 

 nodding or suberect. Flowers about 10 secund deflexed. Bracts j\r 

 inch long. Pedicel purple sepals and ])etals \ inch long acuminate. 

 Petals sliglitly broader, all white willi black violet tips ajtex yellowish. 

 Ijij) white witli edges sinuate and tip deeji black ^•iolet 'I large white 

 round eusbions at the base. Antbei' elliptie oblong white with two 

 violet eenlral blotches and base bilobed yellow filament distant as long 

 as the stvle. JNillinia elongate ])yrirorm ovary i ineb long I'ibs dee[) 

 violet. Capsule elliptic ] inch long. 



Singa|)ore on the banks of a sticaui at Bukil Panjang (Ridley 

 Xov. !», VMy.\) ; dobor near Castlewood (Ilidlev) : Penang Hill (Cur- 

 tis). 



\'erv rare and dillicull lo lind. Ililli(Mlo mdy known from (lie 

 s|te( imeii eolleeted in .la\a. I I'ouiul 2 in Singapore and AL". Curtis 

 ;') in Tenang. 'I'he (iowi-rs are seif-reililised the ti|) of the pollen 

 rcachin"' down to the -liLiuia. and there Ijcing no rostellum. 



