130 NEW OR RAKE MALAYAN PLANTS. 



There seem to be a number of these pretty Bulbophyl- 

 lurris in Sarawak, Kranzlin describes in Engler's Bot. 

 Jahrb. 34. ii. 251 viz. B. cryptophorantlwides, B. liy- 

 menocliUum, B. scandens all from Matang. This one is 

 distinct in having pnbescent lower sepals. It is allied to 

 B. iimigne, Eidl. of Borneo. 



B. f§ Racemosae) perpusillum, n. sp. 



A very small tufted plant, with minute cylindric pseudo- 

 bulbs T \j inch long crowded together, and subtended with 

 papery lanceolate bracts. Leaf fleshy coriaceous oblan- 

 ceolate obtuse, nearly J inch long ^ inch wide, narrowed 

 into a petiole at the base, tip usually rounded with a 

 minute mucro. Scapes slender as long as the leaves 

 bearing one flower at the top. Bracts 2 the lowest lan- 

 ceolate, the upper one narrower. Flower yellow less than 

 ^o inch long, pedicel short. Upper sepal lanceolate 

 acuminate, laterals gibbous at base above lanceolate acu- 

 minate curved. Petals linear half as long. Lip broad, 

 thin base oblong with two fleshy ridges enclosing a de- 

 pression, lamina ovate subacute apparently white. 

 Column with oblong stelidia truncate short. Anther 

 rather broad, beak rounded fleshy. 



Sarawak: Bidi (C. J. Brookes) Jan. 1908. Flowers 

 yellow. 



A very curious little species, forming minute tufts, 

 with the flowers of the racemosae section but only one, 

 on each. 



B. (§ Racemosae) pumilio, n. sp. 



Bhizome slender short, covered with papery sheaths, 

 pseudobulbs cylindric ^ i ncn long covered with a lan- 

 ceolate papery sheath, nearly twice as long. Leaf coria- 

 ceous linear subacute 2 inches long. inch wide. Ea- 

 ceme slender l-l inch wide, enclosed at the base with a 

 tubular sheath, with a lanceolate limb. Flowers remote 

 white about 10. Bracts lanceolate acuminate about as 

 long as the pedicel -fa inch long. Sepals i inch long, 



Jour. Straits Branch. 



