NEW GE RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 39 



S. stellatus, n. sp. 



Stem thick 3 inches long. Leaves 6 oblong obtuse 

 unequally bilobed 4 inches long and one inch across, 

 thick and stiff. Racemes J inch long. Bracts small 

 ovate. Flowers expanded, ovary and pedicel £ inch 

 long, sepals ^inch long spreading oblong acute pale 

 greenish yellow. Petals smaller linear oblong acute. 

 Lip \ inch long, side lobe oblong rounded broad yellow- 

 ish, with dull Indian red and ovate markings inside, 

 spur short blunt white, a large rounded callus just below 

 the lobes white with 2 violet spots. Column longer 

 than the foot ^inch long yellow, anther thin ovate acute, 

 with a bar-shaped rib across the top. Pollinia semilinear 

 yellow, pedicel linear short, disc small oblong. Clinan- 

 drium very shallow. Eostellum lobes short broad 

 triangular. Capsule sessile oblong an inch long. 



Sarawak: cult, in Bishop Hose's Garden exact locality 

 uncertain, Sept. 1905. A pretty little plant with its 

 green starlike flowers. The pollinia curl forward and 

 hang into the stigma. The plant appears to be thus 

 regularly self-fertilized. 



Dendrocolla Jimhriata, n. sp. 



Stems 1^-1 inch long forming large tufts. Leaves 

 lorate 3 inches long -J inch wide pale green. Scapes 2 

 inches long, rachis thickened. Flowers white. Sepals 

 lanceolate, lower ones oblong lanceolate acute with a 

 process at the base. Petals lanceolate spathu- 

 late smaller. Lip convolute acute pubescent, side lobes 

 distinct rounded, median linear obtuse all white and 

 fringed with hairs, a callus short oblong truncate in the 

 centre of the lip maroon edged with yellow a tuft of 

 hairs behind it, an orange spot in the spur. Column 

 short white, broad belly depressed in the centre, foot 

 short. Clinandrium not raised. i\.nther skull-shaped 

 retuse in front broad. Pollinia pale yellow oblong on 

 a short triangular disc, no pedicel. Rostellum short 

 indistinct. 



R A Soc, No, *9, 1007 



