THE SCITAMINEZ OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 153 
leaves either solitary, Æ. exserta, E. Curtisii, or tufted, E. ser- 
pentina, or borne on an erect stem a foot or more tall. The 
flower spi 
tube is usually long with three lobes, and the corolla tube 
long and graceful with narrow lobes. The lip is fairly large 
entire and rounded, usually white with a central yellow bar 
with red marks along it. The filament of the stamen is broad 
and short, de crest of the anther large and rounded, sometimes 
toothed. style is slender, increasing above the anther, pe 
stigma at d rather large. The fruit, which is rarely to 
met with, is 5 E. longituba a large round white capsule. 
These plants are to be met with in damp woods often in 
great sbonda but seldom seen in flower. 
SPECIES. 
Leaf solitary. Leaves few in a tuft. Leaves on an erect stem, 
1. Е. exserta Bak. 3. E. serpentina Bak. ^ E. latiflora Ridl. 
2. E. Curtisit Bak. 5. Е. pubescens mis 
6. E. multiflora Ridl. 
7. Е. longituba ier 
E. exserta Baker l.c. 251. € Veo exserta Scortechin, Nuov, 
Giorn. Bot. Ital. viii. 310 t. 18. 
Rhizome slender, leaf ee y solitary elliptic acute taperin 
into the petiole four to six feet tail includi се petiole, the 
blade three feet de = one Fai The scape erect with 
several scattered sheaths half an inch in length, edi a single 
flower. Calyx tube slender three-lobed one inch long, corolla 
tube slender three inches long with lanceolate lobes # inch in 
length Lip oblong entire yellow with two red lines in the 
centre. Stamen with a short rounded crest, style longer than 
the crest, stigma oars ` 
eig Kinta (Scortechini). 
The single gigantic leaf, and the erect scape with a single 
flower, йылын this from all other species. I have never 
seen it. 
