12S NEW OR RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 



Sarawak: on coffee trees on Matang Estate (Ridley). 



I have known this little plant for years but never had 

 the luck to find a flower in fit condition. Mi*. Hewitt 

 sends a specimen in flower, without locality. The whole 

 of the little plant is usually red, leaves, flowers and fruit. 

 The leaves are very fleshy. The lip appears to be quite 

 entire ovate. * 



Platyclinis Bartoni, n. sp. 



Pseudobulbs not seen. Leaf narrow lanceolate acu- 

 minate obtuse narrowed at the base, 7 inches long J inch 

 wide, keel prominent, ribs less prominent 6. Scape 12 

 inches, base 6J inches nude, raceme lax, flowers inch 

 apart. Bracts narrow lanceolate papery \ inch long, 

 spreading persistent. Pedicels with ovary a little short- 

 er. Flowers apparently yellowish with a brown lip \ 

 inch across. Sepals lanceolate acuminate acute. Petals 

 nearly as long but little more than half as wide. Lip 

 shorter than sepals, base narrow, side lobes fairly large 

 lanceolate acute, excurved, midlobe much longer ovate 

 acute, dilated towards the middle, margin towards apex 

 denticulate, 2 elevated keels running from base and dis- 

 appearing on the midlobe. Column hood long oblong 

 three toothed at the truncate tip. Stelidia large rising 

 as a margin to column from base, above triangular lan- 

 ceolate with a broad base, tip acute, free from just below 

 the stigma. 



British New Guinea, (Major F. R. Barton No. 5). 



This appears to be the first species of the genus found 

 in New Guinea. It is rather remarkable for the long 

 curved filament of the anther and longer rostellum than 

 usual. 



Balbophyllum patens, Hook. fil. 



A plant of this species was sent in a collection of 

 orchids from Java by Mr. Beauclerk, and flowered in the 

 Botanic Gardens, Singapore. The species has not 

 hitherto been recorded from anywhere outside the pen- 



Jour. Straits Branch. 



