30 NEW OR RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 



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light brown, spreading petals shorter spathulate lanceo- 

 late acute green, appressed. 



Lip spathulate entire, sides at base convolute, tip 

 acute 1 inch long with three distinct nerves and no 

 crests, green. Column white \ as long as lip dilated up- 

 wards top flattened, apex broad clubshaped truncate 

 Clinaudrium elevated entire, anther deeply sunk, wings 

 incurved. Pollinia 4 in 2 pairs each pair on a distinct 

 lanceolate disc, yellow pyriform, anther 2 celled skull- 

 shaped beaked beak bifid, rostellum lobes large 2 up- 

 curved oblong rounded. 



Sarawak : on Serapi, the top of Matang end of August 

 1905 (Ridley 12470). This singular plant differs from 

 any species of Caelogyne in having a perfectly entire 

 lip with no side lobes. 



Platyclinis minor, n. sp. 



Pseudobulbs oblong void, crowded (yellow and much 

 wrinkled when dry) •§ inch long. Leaf linear lanceolate 

 blunt narrowed at the base into a petiole, 3 inches long 

 I inch wide, petiole very slender 1 inch long. Peduncle 

 2-3 inches long very slender flowers crowded in a 

 raceme 1-3 inches long. Bracts papyraceous persis- 

 tent ovate acute J inch long ribbed. Pedicels slightly 

 longer than the bracts. Flowers ^ inch across. Sepals 

 lanceolate acuminate acute, 3 nerved, central nerve 

 thickest. Petals shorter broader oblong slightly dilat- 

 ed upwards rounded obtuse strongly 1 nerved. Lip 

 pandurate base broad oblong short side lobes small 

 rounded inconspicuous, midlobe elliptic obtuse 3 ribbed. 

 Column narrowed at the base with large triangular 

 wings acuminate, rising from near the top and projecting 

 above the column, wings of clinandrium triangular. 

 Anther ovate. 



Sarawak Santubong (J. Hewitt). 



Platyclinis minima, Pseudobulbs very crowded conic obtuse \ 

 inch long. Leaf elliptic slightly narrowed towards the 



Jour. Straits Branch 



