Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 229 



Singapore: Cliua Cliu Kang (Ridluy) ; Jolior: Baiu Paliat (Kid- 

 loy ll'J4). In dense wet jungle .swamps, local. 



V. CvriarKDiEAE. 



87. CYl'KirEDIUM. 



Herbs usually terrestrial. Leaves distichous radical olien tes- 

 sellate. Scape 1 to many flowered. Flowers large. Sepals spreading 

 laterals connate under the lip. l*etals free narrower and usually 

 longer. Lip sessile lateral lobes infiexed short, midlobe large saccale 

 inflated. Column short terete. Anthers 2 globose with a large disc- 

 like staminode between and covering them, stigma rounded disc- 

 shaped. Capsule long and narrow. 



Species about 40. Europe, Asia and >.'orth America. 



Leaves oblong tessellate. 



Petals as broad as the sepals, not warted . . 1. C. nivcain. 



Petals narrower than sepals warted on the edge 2,. C. barbalum. 



Petals narrower than sepals Avarted all over o. V. superbiciis. 



Leaves narrow coriaceous not tessellated . . . . 4. C. Loivii. 



1. C. XIVEUM, Pchb. hi. Card. Chron. 18G1), 10;58. Xen. Orch. 

 11. loo. Leaves linear oblong gi-een above with darker blotches, 

 dark purple beneath. Scape G-8 inches tall 1-3 flowered. Bracts 

 short close-flttiug. Flowers o inches across white dotted with purple. 

 Dorsal sepal broad orbicular, laterals ovate oblong smaller. Petals 

 broadly oblong obtuse longer. Lip sac ovoid mouth contracted. 

 Staminode renii'orm oblong yellow with a white edge. Bot. Mag. t. 

 5923. 111. Hort. 18;i. t. 83. Flor. Mag. 1871. t. 54;3. Peichenbachia 

 I. t. 34. Card. Chron. 1883. II. tig. 1. Hook. til. Fl. Brit. lud. VI. 

 171. 



Lankawi Islands on limestone rocks (Curtis). Distrib. Tem- 

 bilau Islands. 



3. C. BAUBATUM, Liudl. Bot. Peg. 1841. Misc. 53. 1843. t. 17. 

 Leaves oblong or linear oblong 4-8 inches long 1 inch wide aeute pale 

 green with darker spots. Scape 10-13 inches tall pubescent. Bracts 

 shorter than the ovary. Flowei-s 1-3, 3-3 inches across. Upper sepal 

 broad, ovate or orbicular acute or obtuse folded in the middle white 

 with purple veins, base greenish veined purple. Petals greenish brown 

 3 inches long, linear ohlong curved with a few black warts and cilia 

 along the edge. Lip reddish purple helmet-shaped. Staminode 

 renifoiin rotten deeply emarginate in front. Capsule oblong taper- 

 ing at base 1 inch long. Bot. Mag. 4334. Fl. des Serres III. t. 190. 

 XVIII. t. 1879. Belg. Ilortic. XXXIII. UG. t. 7. Warners Sel. Orchid 



