NEW OR RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 151 



long pectinate, as long as the calyx tube pink at the base, 

 brown above. Calyx lobes unequal acute ovate very thick 

 and fleshy. Petals lanceolate acute, the upper one hood- 

 ed white tipped with pink. Lip obovate hairy at the base 

 apex bifid with two short points, bright yellow with 

 horizontal red streaks running from the edges inwards 

 towards the centre. Stamen white, anther broad pubes- 

 cent at the base, filaments broad. Staminodia not visi- 

 ble. Stylodes as in PI. lateralis but with- several distinct 

 lobes. Fruit elliptic obovate obscurely triquetrous, apex 

 flat depressed with a circular scar of the perianth, dull 

 red pulpy at first | inch long, pericarp becoming even- 

 tually leathery, 3 celled. Seeds 12 very small -J inch long 

 black ovate smooth. 



Johore : Dense wet woods at Kukub. In flower April 

 1908. 



Altogether smaller than PL lateralis, Eidl. with white 

 flowers, and a differently shaped lip yellow marked with 

 red. The inflorescence is lower down on the stem and 

 quite near the base. 



Palmae. 

 Plectocomia minor, n. sp. 



Leaf as sent -1 feet long, petiole 8 inches, flagellum 2 

 feet, sheath with a few small thorns on the edge, thorns 

 acicular -§ inch long, petiole with a few distant short 

 thorns, back rounded channelled above; leaflets elliptic 

 lanceolate in threes below in alternate pairs above, base 

 narowed subpetioluled, apex with a long slender point, 

 many nerved, no distinct mid-nerve, 4-6 inches long 2 

 inches across filiform point 3 inches long or less, rachis 

 with distant solitary hooks, flagellum with clusters of 

 hooks 1 inch apart. Fruit spikes 2 feet long. Bracts 

 oblong apex blunt 2 inches long 1J inch wide. Eachis 

 pubescent. Fruit 3-1 in a bract as large as in P. elong- 

 ata. Bracteole triangular lanceolate. Pedicel stout 

 angled distinct. Sepals large ovate obtuse. Petals 



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



