38 NEW OK RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 



bilobed dilate lobes rounded with obscure fleshy process- 

 es projecting from the tip, behind two horn like side 

 processes, all glabrous column thick, anther skull-shaped 

 shortly beaked in front. Stelidia thick subtriangular, 

 rostellum very short and indistinct. Pollinia not seen. 

 " Flowers yellow with red brown spots on the inside 

 and reddish edging outside." 



Sarawak : Lingga (J. Hewitt). 



Only one specimen with a single flower seen. 



Near Tr. lanceolaria, Bl. but the spur is less develop- 

 ed, the lip is distinctly bifid at the tip. 



Sarcochilus fragrans, n. sp. 



Stem 3 inches long. Leaves 9 linear lanceolate sub- 

 falcate narrowed at the base 6 inches long one inch 

 wide, dull green coriaceous, Scape 5 inches long, sub- 

 terete winged. Bracts persistent ovate -\ inch long 

 green. Flowers open three at a time. Pedicels \ inch 

 long. Upper sepal orbicular obovate, lo*ver ones much 

 larger -J inch long orbicular ovate. Petals small \ inch 

 long spathulate all white with a transverse line of one 

 or 2 ocreous blotches. Lip f inch long, side lobes 

 oblong rounded, spur shoe-shaped narrowed to a blunt 

 point, with a raised boss or tooth in the upper face, calli 

 in the mouth three, 2 longer than the median one short 

 blunt tooth-like. Lip all white except an ocre blotch 

 below the mouth. Column short, with a long foot, 

 white with an indian red bar on each side of the foot 

 running up and meeting behind the column. Anther 

 broad and flat, thin ovate shortly beaked. Pollinia 2 

 globular bilobed, pedicel very short, disc oblong lanceo- 

 late small. Clinandrium shallow. Rostellum bifid of 

 two linear processes, column wings incurved. This pretty 

 and deliciously fragrant orchid was found on a coffee- 

 bush on Matang estate. It is allied to S. unguiculatus, 

 but very distinct. 



Jour. Straits Branch 



