NEW OR RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 35 



PI. parviflora. 



Leaves lanceolate acuminate 2 glabrous thin 5 nerved 

 narrowed to a long petiole 12-16 inches long 1^ inch 

 wide. Scape lateral from the rhizome, rather stout 2 

 feet long, scurfy pubescent, flowers distant few, small. 



Pedicel and ovary -J inch long. Closely scurfily 

 pubescent. Sepals narrow linear oblong cuspidate ^ 

 inch long. Petals subspathulate narrower. Lip base 

 oblong, limb broader ovate oblong cuspidate, with two 

 short linear ridges on the limb. Column tall, anther 

 cordate in outline, top fleshy retuse. 



Sarawak : Mt. Lingga (Hewitt). 



Allied to PI. Porphyrophylla, Ridl. but the flowers 

 are much smaller and the lip of a different shape. 



Saccolabium aureum> n. sp. 



Stem about 2 inches long. Leaves crowded lorate 3 

 inches long little more than ^ inch wide thick, apex very 

 unequally bilobed, tops rounded. Racemes 1 inch long 

 dense flowered. Bracts lanceolate acuminate \ the length 

 of the pedicel and ovary. Flowers £ inch long pale 

 greenish yellow or golden yellow, spur white. Upper 

 sepal ovate acute, laterals ovate oblong mucronulate. 

 Petals as long oblong obtuse narrower. Lip ovate 

 rather longer than the sepals, sides elevated rounded 

 (lateral lobes) terminal lobe narrower half the length of 

 the hypochil, linear oblong, ending in a fleshy rounded 

 callus spur as long as the lip nearly as long as the pedi- 

 cel stout cylindric obtuse upcurved. Column very short 

 with two much longer erect horns acute. Anther skull- 

 shaped with a very large oblong truncate beak. Polli- 

 nia 2 globose small on an oblong linear pedicel with a 

 much larger oblong truncate disc bearing a short process 

 beyond the point where the pedicel adheres. 



Sarawak : Kuching (J. Hewitt). 



This curious species is most nearly allied to S. secundi- 

 florum, Ridley. 



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



