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leaf pubescent with three or four lanceolate bracts 

 scattered about. Flowers 2 to 6, crowded at the top, 

 pedicel woolly, ^ inch long, bract lanceolate acuminate 

 glabrous. Upper sepal lanceolate acuminate, laterals 

 broader, forming a short blunt mentum at the base ^ 

 inch long. Petals narrower, linear acuminate. Lip 

 shorter obcuneate, base oblong dilated towards the end 

 into a broad truncate limb with two short side lobes 

 and one small oblong median one. Column rather long 

 curved, stelidia short, anther lanceolate. Pollinia ovoid 

 flattened. 



Sarawak : Mt. Lingga (Hewitt). 



Plocoglottis borneensis, n. sp. 



Pseudobulbs several, terete thickened slightly towards 

 the base and purplish 2 inches long. Leaf solitary, 

 broadly lanceolate, 8 inches long, 4 inches wide, plicate 

 tapering to the winged petiole, seven-nerved dark green. 

 Peduncle 12-16 inches tall pubescent arising from 

 above the base of the pseudobulb. Bracts small ovate 

 acuminate. 



Flowers several. Upper sepal largest \ inch long 

 lanceolate, long acuminate-yellow base red spotted, 

 laterals similar but narrower at the base, backs pubes- 

 cent. Petals similar but glabrous. Lip less than \ inch 

 long, quadrate, tip broad equally shortly trifid pale 

 yellow. Column about as long yellow with two broad 

 flat wings white with red edges and descending bar, a 

 violet streak below, widened at the base. Anther cap 

 thick dark yellow blunt with a strong ridge running to 

 the tip. Pollinia i in two pairs in narrow cells of the 

 anther, elliptic one slightly above the other, pedicel 

 linear-pulverulent, discs oblong yellow rather large. 

 Margin of clinandrium elevate subovate. Stigma large 

 ovate. 



Common in Sarawak especially at Lundu, and Tam- 

 busan, terrestrial in damp woods. Also at Bidi. 



R. A. Soc. No. 49, 1907. 



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