NEW OK BARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 137 



| inch long. Sepal, dorsal ovate lanceolate cynibii'orm, 

 laterals falcate acute nienium as long as the free portion 

 all hairy, broad rounded at tip. Petals falcate lanceolate 

 acute. Lip claw long linear narrow, lamina ovate obtuse 

 obscurely trilobed, side lobes shorter than midlobe ; two 

 elevated nerves run from base of claw diverge on disc 

 and meet again on the centre of midlobe where they are 

 elevated into a fleshy mass and are here joined by the 

 median nerve. Column short but stout, stelidia small. 

 Anther broad thin. Pollinia pyriform. 



Sarawak: Bidi March 08 (C. J. Brookes). Flowers 

 pale almost fleshy color, midlobe of lip yellow. 



Near E. densa, but with hairy flowers and no basal 

 lobes to the lip. The specimen is poor. 



Plocoglottis liirta, n. sp. 



Stem over half an inch through, covered with long 

 pubescent leaves lanceolate 15 inches long 2\ inches wide 

 acuminate narrowed at the base to the broad sheath hairy 

 on both surfaces ribs 5. Scape axillary 3 foot tall hairy, 

 at the base a few distant sheaths ribbed acuminate 1 inch 

 long, raceme lengthening to about a foot. Bracts comose 

 lanceolate acuminate caudate subulate tiairy 1-f inch 

 long. Pedicels hairy 1 inch long. Sepals and petals 

 similar lanceolate caudate hairy outside -J inch long -J 

 inch across at the base. Lip glabrous subquadrate nar- 

 rowed a little at the base, apex with a long linear horn 

 from each angle and a central one decurved at the tip. 

 Towards the base of the lip a pocket is formed by the in- 

 volution of a portion of the centre. Column short and 

 very broad, clinandrum deep, no arms. Pollen masses 4 

 oblong ovoid. 



Sarawak at Bidi (C. J. Brookes). 



A very remarkable plant with apparently a tall leafy 

 stem from the axil of which rises a tall slender scape 

 ending in a gradually elongating raceme of hairy flowers, 



R. A. Soc, No. 50, 1908, 



