78 NEW MALAY |ORCHIDS. 
It is interesting as being theonly low country species, the 
rest being all mountain plants. 
Kria pendula, n. sp. Stems terete 2 or 3 feet long 2 inch through 
leafy. Leaves narrowly linear lanceolate acuminate 4 
inches long ¢ inch wide sheaths dilate upwards 3 to 1 
inch long. Racemes lateral hardly 4 inch long with 
several lanceolate acute red brown bracts half an inch 
long. Flower solitary nearly an inch across white. 
Pedicel and ovary 3 inch long red. Upper sepal ob- 
long obtuse laterals broadly ovate reflexed, mentum 
short very broad and blunt. Petals oblong rounded as 
broad or broader than the upper sepal. Lip shortly 
clawed broad obovate rounded, side lobes indistinct, 
midlobe longer broad keels 2 curved plates on the disc. 
Column stem foot long. 
Selangor at the Kwala Lumpur Caves (Kelsall). 
Perak (Scortechini, drawing). 
Borneo Sarawak. 
Eria (Trichotosta) cristata n. sp. Stem a foot tall, leaves lanceo- 
late acuminate oblique 3 inches long 4 inch wide, coria- 
ceous almost glabrous above hairy beneath sheaths 
elabrescent when old, very hairy when young, half an 
inch long. Racemes short + inch long very hairy, 
lowest bract cup-shaped; upper ones ovate lanceolate 
acute 4 inch long much longer than the ovary; flowers 
2 to 3 half an inch long. Sepals lanceolate acute 
covered with red hair, mentum as long blunt; petals 
linear obtuse much narrower, lip with a very long claw 
pubescent at the base spathulate tip rounded retuse, 
glabrous except for the ends of the three raised veins 
which are covered with short clubbed hairs; column 
base pubescent. 
Penang, and Lankawi [sland at Terutau, (Curtis 1696). 
Ff. rotundifolia, n. sp. Stems slender forming a matted 
- mass. Leaves in small tufts on short stems } inch long, 
fleshy thick obovate blunt hairy + inch long. Flowers 
4+ inch long on a very short pedicel solitary with 2 
Jour. Straits Branch 
