154 THE FLORA OF SINGAPORE. 
M. congesta Rchb, f. Stem swollenat the base, flowers pink 
or green. Common in woods, Bukit Timah, Kranji, Sungei 
Pandan. 
Liparis venosa Ridl. The finest in the genus. Flowers fairly 
large, petals and sepals pink, lip with dark red veins. 
Terrestrial. Woods, very rare. Chan Chu Kang. 
L. nervosa Lind), Flowers yellow or purple. Terrestrial in 
swamps among grass in water Changi, Ang Mo Kio. near 
the Reservior, Tanglin. 
L, elegans Lindl. Epiphytic, with stiff leaves, and racemes of 
small yellow flowers with a red lip. Common on old 
stumps and trees near the sea. Selitar, Kranji. 
L. disticha Lind). Epiphyte. The flowers crowded to the end 
of the raceme with distichous bracts; small, opening one 
at a time, apricot colored. Common. Mangrove swamps, 
Kranji, Chan Chu Kang, ete. 
Platyclinis longifo'ia Hemsl. Epiphyte, forming large tufts, 
with conical pseudobulbs, long narrow leaves and long 
nodding spikes of brown flowers. It is easy to cultivate, 
and flowers all the year. Dry woods near the sea, 
Kranji, Sungei Jurong. 
Dendrobium longicolle Lindl. *  Epiphytic, forming a tuft of lone 
slender pseudobulbs, bearing one leaf apiece, flowers 
sol tary on long stalks with long filiform petals and a 
yellow lip. Rare, growing with the last. Sungei Morai. 
First discovered by Cuming. 
D. ( Bollidium ) pumilum Roxb, A little tufted plant with iwo 
leaves to each stem and one or two small flowers, yellow 
or veined with purple. Not rare on trees. Mangrove 
swamps, orchards, etc. Kranji, Bajau, Selitar. 
D. (Sect. Lesmotrichum) lonchophyl:um Hook. fil. Stems 
branched and swollen at intervals. Flowers small and 
fugacious, yellow with pink stripes. Common all over 
Singapore. 
D. criniferum Lindl, Flowers yellow spotted purple, lip with 
