ORCHIDACE^ 



31. ACANTHOPHIPPIUM Bl. 



Three members of this genus are recorded from Borneo, but 

 none were previously reported from Mount Kinabalu. 

 I. Acanthophippium javanicum Bl Bijdr. (1825) 354. 



KiAU, Clemens 356^ November 1915. Flower purple. 



32. PHAJUS Lour. 



Two species of this genus were hitherto known from Borneo, 

 but none has been reported from Mount Kinabalu. 



1. Phajus Blumei Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. (1831) 127. 

 Rolfe, in Journ. Linn. Soc. 42 (1914) 153, says: "This has been 



more or less confused with P. JVallichi, Lindl., but the spur of 



the lip is much shorter than in that, and the sepals and petals 



invariably white at the back." 



Kinabalu, C/em^n*, November-December 1915.Tambunan Plain, Gi&6* 

 3003, February 1910. 2000 feet altitude. Kiau, Clemens 130, November 

 1915. 3000 feet altitude. Flower white and purple, petals brownish inside 

 and white outside; Clemens 18^, November 1915. 3000 feet altitude; Clem- 

 ens 277 A, November 1915; Clemens 3Jf.6, November 1915. Flower white, 

 cream color and purple; Clemens 378, December 1915. Flower yellow, 

 white and purple. 



2. Phajus subtrilobus ^. (% S. sp. nov. Herba robusta, erecta. 

 Folia in ramo nonnulla, elliptica, longe et plus minusve subito 

 acuminata, longe petiolata, in sicco membranacea, pedunculum 

 multo excedentia. Pedunculus ramo foliorum approximatus, 

 laxissime florifer. Flores magni, spectabiles. Sepala lateralia ob- 

 lanceolata, obliqua, acuta, mucronata, carinata. Sepalum dorsale 

 simile, paulo longius et angustius. Petala spathulato-oblanceo- 

 lata, subfalcata, apice obliquissimo apiculato rotundata. Label- 

 lum gynostemio adnatum; lamina transverse suborbiculari- 

 ovalis, medio longitudinaliter incrassata, carinis semiellipticis 

 approximatis in callum papillosum decurrentibus, margine in 



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