THE FLORA OF SINGAPORE, 153 
jungle in rotten leaves, Chan Chu Kang, Bukit Timah, 
Bukit Mandai. 
Thismia Aseroe Bece. А saprophyte, with urn- -shaped flowers, 
he perianth lobes drawn out into tails yellow. Decaying 
eaves in wet jungles. Fairy point, Changi (Beccari), 
Bukit Timah, Kranji. 
Th. fumila Ridl. * Somewhat like the last but smoky grey. 
Rare, Chan Chu Kan 
Gymnosiphon borneense Becc. An exceedingly fr agile little plant, 
wi avender flowers. Dense jungles in rotten leaves, 
Bukit Timah, Chan Chu Kan 
ORCHIDEA. 
oergie pred: epiphytic orchids with ensiform  distichous 
and a nder spikes of very small green, yellow 
or ied flow 
О. dissitifora Ridl. * Мары, Kranji. 
O. lunata Lindi. Оп a high tree, Selitar, Bukit Timah. 
О. anceps Lindl. Galang, Kranji: 
O. miniata Lindl. “Singapore cultivated in Loddiges Garden,” 
has not bee 
o n seen here of late years, and is probably 
an error of locality. 
O. ciliolata Hook. fil. Mangrove swamps and orchard trees. 
Kranji, Chan Chu Kang , Changi, Sungei Morai, Bukit 
Timah, 
Microstylis. Terrestrial orchids, with the stems usually swollen 
se, thin-textured leaves, and small red green or 
yellow flowers. 
M. micrantha Hook. fil. A creeping plant with a rather t 
ic stem, and lanceolate copper colored leaves 
which “sparkle like the stone avantur " Flowe ers 
very small red and yellow. Оп dead loaren, Bukit Man- 
dai, Changi, Selitar. 
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