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NEW MALAY ORCHIDS. 
base of midlobe yellow, at first, becoming ocreous 
orange after one or two days and fading red orange. 
Spur very slender an inch long obtuse decurved. 
Column thickened round the stigma, anther shortly 
bluntly beaked. 
Sumatra, Deli, imported with C. veratrijolia and culti- 
vated in the Botanic Gardens, Penang. FI. September. 
This plant Mr. Curtis says is indistinguishable from C. 
veratrifolia in leaves and habit. The flower is however 
quite different. The broad kidney-shaped bilobed lip, 
colour changing from white tinted with lemon yellow 
at the base to dull dark orange red is very striking. 
The branched scape a most unusual character in Calan- 
the is not apparently rare, as it has been produced in 
two out of three plants cultivated by him. 
C. albo-lutea, n. sp. A large plant with broa \ly lanceolate acute 
leaves 2} feet tall, 4 inches wide with strong ribs petiole 
stout 8 inches tall, scape over 11 feet “long, stout. 
Bracts caducous, flowers about half an inch across, pedi- 
cel and ovary + inch long. Sepals and petals short broad 
- ovate acute white. Lip 3 lobed white with yellow base, 
loLes very short falcate acute, midlobe obovate rounded 
reniform broad, bilobed, calli 2 short semiovate ridges at 
the base, spur shorter than the pedicel thick blunt club- 
bed curved. 
Perak (Scortechini), Bujong Malacca (Ridley), Larut 
Hills (Derry). 
C. aurantiaca, n. sp. Rhizome fairly oe leaves narrow lance- 
olate acuminate 12 inches lo oy 2 inch wide, petiole 3 
inches long. Scape slender a foot tall with a large 
lanceolate sheath towards the base. Bracts caducous. 
Flowers 2inchacross orange. Pedicel and ovary slender 
Linch long. Sepals ovate y apiculate 2 Linch long. Petals 
much broader. Lip narrow, side lobes subtriangular 
ovate, midlobe narrow linear oblong obtuse red. Keels 
2 short semiovate, spur slender sigmoid blunt. Rostellum 
long beaked.  - . 
Perak, Bujong Malacca (Ridley). 
Jour, Straits Branch 
