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passing into cherry red at the tip. Spur saccate blunt, 

 side lobes arched blunt, middle fleshy blunt ovate. Callus 

 on the disc tongue-shaped rounded depressed in the centre, 

 column white with rounded and broad wings. Anther hem- 

 ispheric. Fruit linear angled, 3 inches long J inch through. 

 On old coffee bushes at Castlewood, Johore. This is 

 allied to Th. Arachnites which was common in the same 

 place, but has the short stout leaves and stern of Th. 

 Scortechinii. The flowers however are much smaller than 

 any other of this group. 



Amaeyllide^:. 



Curculigo 7iiegacarpa, n. sp. A large tufted plant with a stout 

 stem. Leaves dark green oblong lanceolate acuminate 

 glabrous 20 inches long, 3 inches wide, petiole 8 inches 

 long. Peduncle 4 inches long tomentose with large 

 lanceolate acuminate bracts at the base, lower ones hairy 

 on the edge only, upper ones more hairy. Spike broad 

 conic-cylindric 2 to 4 inches long. Flower 1 inch across. 

 Sepals lanceolate acute J inch long dirty yellow outside 

 and hairy at the tip. Petals brightyellow, stamensyellow, 

 ' filaments short, anthers oblong, wavy, hairy, beaked. 

 Fruit 2 inches long, Indian-club shaped § inch through at 

 the base, white seeds very numerous angled ribbed black. 



Perak, in forests on the Thaiping Hills at 2000 to 

 3000 feet elevation. 



This seems to be .common on the Thaiping Hills and 

 has probably been hitherto overlooked or taken for a 

 form of C. latifolia, but it can hardly be referred to that 

 species, variable as it is. It is larger in all parts of the 

 flower and fruit, the latter being very long club shaped. 



BUKMANNIACE^]. 

 Burmannia oblonga, n. sp. A slender saprophyte 5 inches tall 

 with numerous wiry roots. Stem sparingly or not at all 

 branched. Leaves sheath-like, scales few and distant. 

 Flowers one or two on the ends of the stem f inch long 

 and £ inch broad across the wings, tube narrow wings 

 oblong with straight edges, angles rounded. Sepals and 

 petals short blunt. Petals much the shorter. 



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