NEW MALAYAN PLANTS. 1 95 



each bract containing 1 several flowers, and each flower 

 being partially enclosed in another green bracteole of 

 somewhat similar shape. 



Gastrochilus parvus, n. sp. 



A small tufted plant with bright green lanceolate leaves 

 4 inches long and 1 inch wide with rather darker nerves. 

 Flower spike central with numerous brown lanceolate 

 bracts. Calyx lobes rather long lanceolate pubescent 

 white. Corolla tube f inch long slender white dilated 

 upwards and tinted pink lobes oblong white £ inch long. 

 Staminodes linear oblong rounded white. Lip longer 

 obovate oblong tip rounded white entire with a central 

 yellow bar pink on each side. Anther thick oblong white 

 back pubescent, with a fleshy white almost obovate 

 crest. 



Sarawak Bidi, flowered in the Botanic Gardens, June, 

 1904. 



This little species is allied to G. Hallieri Ridl. Kamp- 

 feria anomala Hallier Bull. Herb. Boiss VI pi. 9, 3, but it 

 differs from that species in its entire lip, pubescent 

 stamen and the distinct fleshy crest. 



G. reticosa, n. sp. 



Stem creeping short, throwing up branches, each bear- 

 ing a single leaf and an inflorescence. Leaf petiole 

 slender 3 inches long, grooved above, blade ovate sub- 

 coriaceous base cordate apex acute with about 10 pairs of 

 raised veins and close conspicuous reticulations, 3 inches 

 long 2 inches across, bright green, beneath paler pubes- 

 cent spike shorter than the petiole 1J inch long outer 

 sheaths enclosing the base of the leaf, innerbracts 

 lanceolate acute. Flowers small opening singly. Petals 

 linear lanceolate T \ inch long yellow. Lip rounded 

 spathulate base narrow limb^ inch wide rounded bilobed, 

 base white with a yellow bar running to the limb which 

 is pale violet. Staminodes half as long as the petals 

 reflexed linear oblong obtuse, yellow minutely pubescent, 



R. A. Soc, No. U, 1905. 



