NEW OR RARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 49 



midlobe where they are strongly undulate: base of lip 

 pink, limb apricot colored. Column rather tall, with 

 broad pale wings Hanking the stigma, anther quadrate 

 large. 



Borneo: Sarawak, Quop (Hewitt). 



Most nearly allied to D. roseo-punctum Ridl. rather 

 conspicuous for the long mentum, and the broad stelidia. 

 Dendrobium Lankaviense, n. sp. 



A slender plant with a tuft of slender stems, thicken- 

 ing slightly upwards, and often branched, above 8 inches 

 long and as thick as a crowquill, red when young, and 

 grev when old. lower internodes an inch long. Leayes 

 narrow lanceolate acuminate acute. H inches long, J inch 

 wide. Flower solitary from the nude stem, on a pedicel 

 of half an inch long covered porrect. Sepals ovate lan- 

 ceolate obtuse \ inch long, 4- inch wide: mentum curved 

 slender acuminate blunt little more than half an inch 

 long. Petals elliptic obtuse a little broader than the 

 sepals \ inch across, all rosy mauve. Lip entire obovate 

 oblong, spathulate refuse claw narrow nearly \ inch long, 

 base of lip and claw white with a patch of pink dots in 

 the centre, limb bright mauve. Column mauve, wings 

 near the stigma thickened undulate. Stelidia small ovate 

 obtuse. Anther rounded skull-shaped rounded in front. 

 mauve. 



Lankawi islands, sent by Mr. Fox, and flowered in 

 the Botanic Gardens Singapore in October, 1908. 



This pretty little plant is allied to D. Eoum Ridl. 

 and D. hymenauthum Hook. fil. From the latter it 

 differs in its narrower petals and sepals shorter and more 

 slender steins and in the colour of its flowers. 

 Bujbophyllum ($ Sestochilus) Heirittii, n. sp. 



Rhizome rather slender T \j inch through, pseudobulbs 

 narrow evlindrie 2 inches apart 2 inches long. Leaf 

 lanceolate acute narrowed a little at the base o-6 inches 

 long H-2 inches wide, thinly coriaceous. Peduncles 

 slender 5 inches long, with 1 or two sheaths below, one 

 flowered. Bract J inch long oblong cuspidate. Flower 



R. A. Soc,, No. E4, 1509. 



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