40 NEW OR RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 



Sarawak, on trees near the race course Sept. 1905 

 (Ridley and Hewitt). 



Allied to S. trichoglottis, Hook. fil. which occurs there 

 too, conspicuously different 'in its white flowers, and 

 the lobed lip. A very pretty little plant, and fragrant. 



Goodyera rostrata, n. sp. 



Stem a foot tall. Leaves narrowly lanceolate slightly 

 falcate acuminate at both ends and distinctly petiolate, 

 5 inches long including the petiole (1 inch) sheaths 

 short papery. 



Raceme (in bud only) rather crowded. Bracts £ inch 

 long lanceolate acuminate. Pedicel hairy short. 



Sepals hairy red, upper one lanceolate, base gibbous, 

 adnate to the thin pale petals, laterals connate ovate 

 hairy blunt red. Lip shorter, base thin saccate equall- 

 ing the rather long curved beak, red, glabrous inside 

 with no calli. 



Column short with small rounded side wings. Anther 

 very long beaked. Anther cells gibbous. Beak curved 

 cylindric acute longer than the sepals. 



Rostellum entire large spathulate, truncate, base 

 narrowed dilated upwards into broad wings, shorter 

 than the anther, minutely pustular with a strong rib up 

 the centre. 



Sarawak : Lingga, (J. He tvitt). 



Differs from Grubens Bl. in the long beaked lip and 

 entire broad winged labellum, and narrow leaves. 



H (thenar ia pelorioides, Rchb. fil. Trans. Linn. Soc. XXX. p. 139. 

 Tab. 27. 



This plant was described from a specimen, obtained 

 in Amherst, Tenasserim by Parish. The specimen, 

 in Herb. Kew seems to be very ill-preserved, and it is 

 suggested that it is an abnormal form, of some other 

 species. Mr. Micholitz has recovered what appears to 

 be the identical species in Tonkin. It was he says 

 abundant and I have three good specimens. In habit 



Jour, btraite BraucL 



