142 NEW OR RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 



partition which is incomplete. Callus on the back of the 

 spur curved narrow, grooved, apex pubescent, mouth of 

 the spur pubescent. Column short, foot prolonged into 

 the spur in a short process. Anther broad with a narrow 

 straight margin. Pollinia semiorbicular, with a very 

 broad thin pedicel subquadrate with an acute tip, disc 

 fleshy apparently orange colored, saddle-shaped, back 

 rounded; rostellar lobes broad deflexed quadrate. 



Sarawak: Kuching Feb. 1908 (J. E. Lewis, comm. J. 

 Hewitt). 



Allied to 8. Machadonis, Eidl. but with broader leaves, 

 rounded broad petals and sepals and a different callus. 



Podochilus rupicola, n7 sp. 



Tall stout tufted plant with long stems 2 feet long. 

 Leaves elliptic 2 inches long ^ inch wide slightly narrow- 

 ed at base obtuse at tip. Inflorescence 6-8 inches long 

 pendulous, raceme 1^-4 inches long slender. Bracts 

 ' small lanceolate deflexed, acute persistent. Flowers T V 

 inch long. Upper sepal ovate small, laterals large tri- 

 angular. Petals small oblong, mentum gibbous wide. 

 Lip oblong apex bilobed lobes rounded, base rounded, 

 with the horse-shoe-shaped callus at the base and 2 

 parallel ridges on the limb. Fruit -J inch long fusiform. 



Borneo, Sarawak: on rocks at Bidi (Eidley 11792); 

 Batu (Hewitt). 



Leucolena ornata, Eidl. 



I put this curious saprophytic orchid into the section 

 Epidendreae of Orchids with some amount of doubt as 

 there was nothing at all which shewed any affinity to the 

 plant in the section. Its appearance certainly suggested 

 that its affinities lay with the Neottieae section among 

 which saprophytes are not at all uncommon. But in 

 the plants obtained in Bukit Sadanen in Malacca, I 

 found what appeared to be a distinct disc to the pollen 

 masses and the anther is not at all like that of most 



Jour. Straits Branch. 



