I)>sea.'\ OXLVIII. ORCHIDEJ;. (J. D. Hooker.) 813 



PERAK ; on Gunong Bat a Patch, alt. 4500 ft., Wray. 



Scape y in.; bracts -| in.; flowers \\ in. diam., resupinate ; dorsal sepal ovate- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, lateral and 3-uerved petals lanceolate; mentum with the 

 sac of the lip produced into an incurved stout round-tipped spur; side lobes of 

 the broad lip very short, tooth-like; column rather short, winged ; pollinia 8, 

 seated on a forked thick membrane, in superposed pairs. A. very curious plant, 

 perhaps a Spalhoglottis. 



22. SPATHOGLOTTIS, Slume. 



Pseudobitlbs on a creeping terrestrial rhizome, broadly conic, 1-3- 

 leaved. Leaves long-petioled, elongate, narrow, plaited. Scape lateral ; 

 flowers racemed, often large. Sepals free, subequal. Petals subsimilar or 

 longer and broader. Lip sessile, erect ; lateral lobes erect, midlobe clawed ; 

 disk at its base tubercled or crested. Column long, arched, subclavate 

 above and 2-winged, foot ; anther 2-celled ; pollinia 8, slightly cohering 

 in fours. Species about 10, tropical Asiatic, Australian and Pacific. 



* Pseudobulbs clothed with rigid fibres of old leaves. Scape tall, stout. 

 Petals much broader than the sepals, many-nerved. 



1. S. plicata* Illume Bijd. 401, t. 76; tall, stout, scape 2-3 ft., 

 raceme puberulous, bracts ovate or lanceolate acuminate, flowers 1 in. 

 diam. lilac, sepals broad acute, midlobe of lip longer than the side lobes, 

 claw narrow dilating into a cuneately flabelliform blade. Lindl. Gen. 

 # Sp. Orchid. 119 ; in Wall, Cat. 3743 ; Walp. Ann. vi. 455. S. lilacina, 

 Griff. Noiul. iii. 323 ; Ic. PL Asiat. t. 311, f. 3. Bletia angustifolia, Gaud, 

 in FrcycTVoy. Sot. 421, t. 32. 



MALAY PENINSULA ; from Penang and Perak to Singapore, Wallich, Griffith 

 (Keio Distrib. 5937, 5193), Maingay (K. D. 1637, 1639). DISTRIB. Java, Manilla, 

 New Guinea. 



Pseudobulbs when full grown 2 in. diam. Leaves 2-4 ft. by 1-3 in., finely 

 acuminate; petiole 6-18 in. Raceme 6-12 in., many-fid. ; bracts i-l in., reflexed 

 (in young plants flowers few and bracts larger) ; pedicels 1 in.; calli of lip yellow, 

 sparsely villous. Capsule 1 in., pendulous. Griffith (Notul. 1. c. 324) gives the 

 Khasia Hills as a locality (as well as Malacca), but this is a mistake. 



2. S. aurea, Lindl. in Paxt. Fl. Gard. i. 16, and in Journ. Hort. 



Soc. v. 34 ; .tall, stout, scape 2 ft., raceme glabrous, bracts oblong obtuse, 

 flowers 1^ in. diam. golden, sepals broad obtuse, midlobe of lip equalling 

 the falcate side lobes narrowly lanceolate fleshy acute. Walp. Ann. vi. 

 455. S. plicata, Griff. Notul. iii. 325 ; Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 311, f. 1. 



MALAY PENINSULA; PEEAK, on Gunong Batu Patch, Wray ; Mount Ophir, 

 Griffith (Kew Distrib. 5290), Maingay (K. D. 1638). DISTRIB. Malay Islands. 



Pseudobulbs -1 in. diam. Leaves 1218 in., narrowly lanceolate, acuminate ; 

 petiole as long. Raceme 6-8 in. ; bracts % in., spreading, fleshy ; pedicels in. ; side 

 lobes of lip narrow, falcate. 



3. S. Wrayi, HooJc.f. Ic. Plant, incd. tall, scape 12-18 in., raceme 

 glabrous, bracts large oblong, flowers 2- in. diam. bright yellow, sepals 

 broad subacute, midlobe of lip longer than the straight side lobes very 

 narrowly spathulate. 



PERAK, alt. 4500 ft., Wray. 



Habit of S. aurea, but flowers nearly twice as large, pedicels 1 in. ; bracts f in. 

 I have seen but one specimen of this splendid species, which is 3-4-fld. The 

 inflorescence is probably as variable as in S. plicata. 



