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NEW MALAY ORCHIDS. 
oblong obtuse white with a central crimson bar. No 
calli. Ovary and pedicel + inch long. Column straight, 
broadened at the base. 
Sumatra, Indragiri (Curtis). Flowered in Penang 
Gardens. 
A pretty little plant of the Corit/oliae section, somewhat 
resembling L. lacerata Ridl., inhabit, but the lip is quite 
entire, and very differently colored. 
Platyclinis odorata, n. sp. Pseudobulbs cylindric tapering 24 
to 3 inches lony leaf lanceolate subacute petiolate blade 9 
inches long # inches wide, petiole 2 inches long slender. 
Raceme nodding graceful one foot long, lower 
half nude slender. Flowers greenish white sweet- 
scented + inch long numerous bracts lanceolate, acumi- 
nate longer than the shorter ovary, Sepals and petals 
lanceolate acuminate acute. Lip entire tongue-shaped 
obtuse minutely pubescent keels 2 nearly the whole 
length of the lip. Column rather short with broad 
wings, arms free from a little below the stigma as long 
as the hood linear apex soothed, hood of columns large 
toothed anther with a short broad beak. 
Perak (Curtis, No. 2854). 
Dendrobium viridicatum, n. sp. Stem rather slender flexuous 
over a foot long. Leaves lanceolate acute 234 inches 
long, $ inch wide sheaths inch long. Flowers borne 
on leafless stems numerous in very short racemes of 2 or 3 
flowers, peduncles 4 inch long, bracts very small ovate 
sheathing, pedicels #inchlong. Flowers 4 inch long 
light green. Sepals lanceolate acute, laterals broader, 
mentum very short blunt. Petals broader oblong lanceo- 
late. Lip entire lanceolate acute column short with erect 
arms. 
Perak, at Ipoh (C. Goldham.) 
This seems as nearly allied to D. macrostachyum, 
Lindl., as to any other species. 
P. Culicopis, un. sp. Stems slender over a foot long internodes 
Eto 1 inch long. Leaves lanceolate acuminate acute, 
Jour. Straits Branch — 
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