134 NEW OK RAKE MALAYAN PLANTS. 



Sarawak: Matang (June 07, Hewitt). Petals with a 

 green tinge, the veins red. Lip and column white. 



This is a fine Pcdilonum remarkable for its curious 

 mentum narrowed and dilated towards the tip and curved 

 like the abdomen of wasp, and for the lip with its two 

 broad side lobes about half way from the base and the 

 broad fan-shaped terminal lobe. 



D. f§ Pedilonum) multiftaruiii, n. sp. 



Stems slender 18-24 inches tall J inch through slightly 

 flexuous strongly grooved, internodes 1 inch long. 

 Leaves elliptic obtuse nearly sessile 3 inches long by 1 

 wide. Eacemcs terminal 2 to 1 inches long many 

 flowered. Bracts narrow lanceolate small. Flowers 

 large. Pedicel winged | inch. Sepals elliptic lanceolate 

 acute. Petals similar a little smaller. Mentum long- 

 curved half an inch long thick blunt. Lip spatlmlate, 

 base linear centre thickened, limb broadly orbicular ovate 



1 inch across distinctly nerved. Xerves at the base of 

 the limb elevated into an undulating keel. Column 

 rather tall oblong. Anther short and thick. Stigma 

 narrow oblong with an elevated margin, and two fleshy 

 wings outside. Capsules ^ i ncn long elliptic. 



Sarawak: at Quop (March 1908). Petals and lip 

 yellow. Sepals red outside, the colour more pronounced 

 on the mentum. 



The habit of D. secundum, but with very different 

 flowers. 



Dendrochilurn spathulutum, n. sp. 



Ehizome long much branched slender T \j inch thick, 

 yellow, pseudobulbs cylindric yellow and deeply grooved 

 when dry 1 inch long T *o inch through. Leaf elliptic 

 lanceolate narrowed rather abruptly to the base apex 

 obtuse 2 inches long -} inch wide. Eacemcs slender about 



2 inches long floriferous to the base. Bracts ovate acute 

 minute persistent papery half as long as the pedicels. 



Jour. Straits Branch, 



