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slender long branches. Flowers numerous J inch long 

 to tip of spur, yellow with brown stripes, sepals lanceo- 

 late, lateral ones oblique keeled the keel running out into 

 a mucro petals much smaller and thinner. Lip shorter 

 than sepals, side lobes falcate acute, midlobe lanceolate 

 with a callus on the tip, dorsal callus reniform laterally 

 flattened. Spur long straight narrow cylindric obtuse. 

 Column oblong quadrate with short truncate arms, 

 Anther small thin ovate. Rostellum arms shorter than 

 column arms oblong quadrate truncate. 



Sarawak, Bidi, cultivated in a garden, but collected in 

 the neighbourhood (Ridley). 



This species seems most closely allied to S. javanicum 

 Smith. 



Dendrocolla alba, n. sp. 



Stems 3 to 4 inches long, with long slender and numer- 

 ous roots. Leaves 1 orate fleshy dark green 1 to 2 inches 

 long £ inch wide, obtuse. Scapes 4 inches long slender 

 green raceme £ inch long thickened. Bracts ovate 

 acuminate quaquaversal flowers 1 to 2 open at a time, 

 | inch across, expanding widely white, pedicels £ inch 

 long. Sepals lanceolate acute. Petals narrower and 

 shorter, narrowed at the base. Lip \ inch long saccate, 

 lateral lobes curved short blunt distinct edged with 

 clubbed hairs, midlobe little longer rounded blunt exca- 

 vate, base of lip saccate grooved, callus in centre of the 

 lip at the base of the midlobe oblong truncate ; white with 

 light brown blotches in the saccate portion and light 

 brown spots on the side lobes and midlobe outside, and 

 on the tip of the callus. Column oblong white with a 

 narrower free foot blotched palelorown. Anther skull 

 shaped. Pollinia ovoid, pedicel very short and broad. 



Perak Kamuning, Sungei Siput(Machado) on old coffee 

 trees. This pretty little plant with its numerous scapes 

 bearing one or two white star like flowers at a time is 

 allied to /). trichogottis Ridl. the common Singapore plant, 



R. A. Soc, No. 44, 1905 



