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tubular 3 lobed, lobes caudate hairy 1 J inch long, glabrous 

 except at the cuspidate tip, orange. Corolla lobes 

 equally long linear oblong orange. Lip as long as the 

 anther, deeply split into two linear lobes for nearly all 

 its length lobes obtuse crimson with a yellow edge. An- 

 ther oblong pale yellowish with a small ovate crest, fila- 

 ment broad, edges involute towards the lip and forming 

 a tube with it, pinkish yellow, with two subulate points 

 at the top near the anther. Stylodes forming a shortly 

 3 lobed pale violet ring. Style stout, stigma obcuneate, 

 upper lip longer than the lower and incurved. Base of 

 filament in the tube with a large tuft of silky hairs. 

 Ovules numerous. 



Johore: In thick low swampy forest at Kukub. In 

 bud April 1908. Borneo, Sarawak: Bidi (Hewitt Aug. 

 1907). 



This remarkable plant seems most nearly allied to the 

 genus Riedelia which is confined to the Papuasian region 

 of the Archipelago. 



The separate inflorescence and the corolla-like sepals 

 are very remarkable points of difference, and the broad 

 involuted filament forming a tube with the lip though 

 free from it is very curious. I only found one plant of 

 it in bud. 



The woods in which this plant occurs are remarkable 

 in many ways. The soil consists of nothing but dead 

 and rotten timber and vegetable debris, for a very con- 

 siderable depth, below and in other parts of the estate 

 there is a great deal of a very greasy stiff clay. 

 The presence of recognisable fruits of the Nipa palm 

 show that this part of the coast was marine at no very 

 distant period. The mangrove swamps and tidal streams 

 seem to have receded and been covered up with a dense 

 wet forest, containing a somewhat peculiar flora. The 

 trees are of very large size, Cumpasia Malaccensis 

 being very abundant. The absence of Nephrodiwns 

 Lastreas and such ferns is very striking, and indeed the 



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