NEW MALAY ORCHIDS. 73 
3 inches long $ inch wide. Flowers three or oe on a 
short peduncle 4 2 inch long, pedicels with ovary 3 inch 
long, flowers an inch across, sepais ovate obtuse, laterals 
narrower subacute, mentum as long cylindric subacute. 
Petals broader elliptic obtuse, all white tinted with 
rose, lip entire broadly oblong truncate apex bilobed, 
lobes short rounded, with 4 raised veins in the centre 
two thick in the centre and two thinner outside all white 
with a rosy spot on the tin. Column short and thick 
enlarged at the stigma arms erect both like crimson. 
Anther ovate pink lar ee. 
Lankawi Islands, (Cur tis). 
This belongs to the Pedilonum section and is allied to 
D. hymenopterum, Hook. fil. which grows in Kedah. The 
flowers though few and rather fugacious, are very pretty 
the deep crimson of the tip of the column, contrasting 
well with the rosy white of the rest of the flower. 
D, tenuicaule,n. sp. Stems very siender weak, a foot lony. 
Leaves narrow linear lanceolate acuminate 3 inches long 
+ inch wide, sheaths one inch long. Flower solitary large, 
pedicel and ovary slender $ inch long. Upper sepal 
ovate acute, mentum very long cylindric apex de- 
curved. acute # inch long. Petals broadly ovate all 
pink darkest at the tips. Whole flower ? inch across. 
Lip claw very long narrow lateral lobes broad up 
curved, mid lobe short ovate apex bifid, edge crisped, 
white with a central pink line. Column short with 
a very long foot, arms toothlike erect. Anther margin 
pubescent. 
Lankawi, Ayer Hangat (Curtis). 
D. bifidum, n.sp. Plant with the habit of D. flabellum, stems a 
R, A. Soc., 
foot or more long slender, pseudobulbs oblanceolate 
flattened 1$ inch long, 2 inches apart. Leaf broadly 
lanceolate ovate obtuse 5 inches long 2 inches wide. 
Bracts lanceolate acute red. Flowers 1 or 2 open ata 
time, ovary and pedicel } inch long. Sepals and petals 
linear oblong acute recurved yellow with red spots, 
petals a little smaller, mentum acute. Lip longer than 
No. 39, 1903. 
