NEW MALAYAN PLANTS 73 
Perak, at Tambun, near Ipoh, flowering in April. 
This species is chiefly remarkable for the shape of the dise of 
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the pollen-masses, which resembles in form the merrythought of a 
owl, having two long curved processes at the extremit 
, the lip pure white, except for a violet edge to 
the mouth of the spur. : 
Tupistra grandis, sp.n. Herba habitu Susi anthelmintici, 
caule brevi erecto radicibus aeriis brevibus albis extrusis. Folia 
lanceolata acuminata erecta atro-viridia, 24 pollices longa, 6 pollices 
lata. Spica erecta valida pedalis, rachide crasso carnoso, floribus 
50 vel pluribus sessilibus, pollicem longus et } pollicis latis, ala- 
bastris tetraquetris oblongis truncatis ferme atris. Bractew ovate 
purpuree minime, Perianthium campanulatum, purpurascens 
pollicem longum apicibus sepalorum et petalarum recurvis atro- 
burpureis ovatis. Anthere 6 in fauce tubo sessiles alba oblonga. 
Stylus crassus alba, perianthiio superans, stigma imum rotun- 
datum ara depresso album, Ovarium trilocularis, ovula in loculo 
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