NEW OR BARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 47 



large, filaments short. Style slender bifid nearly to the 

 base, ovary glabrous cylindric oblong depressed at the top, 

 a little taller than the calyx lobes. 



Johore: in woods at Sedenah, hardly out in Aug. 

 1908. The flowers are white the buds tinted at the tip 

 with lilac. 



This species is very distinct from C. curviflora in its 

 pubescence and congested flower heads. 



OKCHIDEAE. 



Microstylis nemoralis, n. sp. 



Stem fleshy purple cylindric creeping ascending, 

 6 inches long. Leaves ovate acuminate. 4 to 9 red, base 

 rounded, five nerved, 3 to 4 inches long, 2 inches wide. 

 Eaceme 5 inches tall, base nude, rachis angled, with a 

 few 2 or 3 linear, narrow bracts £ inch long. Flowers 

 J inch across, fairly numerous, close, together. Sepals 

 elliptic broad rounded at the tip, strongly reticulate 

 nerved when dry, lower ones broader than the upper ones. 

 Petals linear obtuse narrow, all red. Lip orange-yellow, 

 broad with broad rounded auricles, limb obovate rounded 

 almost quadrate, apex broadest with two rounded angle- 

 - lobes, and 5 acute teeth between. Column small pale. 



Johore : at Sedenah in wet mud between tree-roots, 

 in a dense wet forest, August 1908. 



A very distinct and pretty plant, with the elongate 

 stem of M. micrantha but with much larger leaves and 

 flowers. Among Scortechini's drawings is a pencil sketch 

 of a Microstylis. which I think is intended for this plant. 

 It is labelled M. plantaginea by Sir Joseph Hooker, but 

 is not what I take to be the plant he so named in the 

 Flora of British India of which there is another drawing 

 of Scortechini's so labelled. 

 Liparis Brookesii, n. sp. 



Ehizome short, pseudobulbs f inch long £ inch 

 through at the base, subcylindric but base dilated, covered 

 with loose pale ovate sheaths acute ribbed with 8 to 10 



R. A. Soc, No. 54. 1909. 



