54 NEW OE EAEE MALAYAN PLANTS. 



thickened rachis. Bracts very small appressud ovate. 

 Pedicels half an inch. Sepals ovate obtuse | inch long 



-I- inch wide, upper one narrower oblong obtuse. Petals 

 shorter oblong ovate .1 inch long. All reddish flesh color 

 (salmon color). Lip shorter and smaller! inch long 

 base slightly saccate, side lobes as long as the whole lip 

 falcate acuminate, midlobe rounded with a retuse boss at 

 its base, base of side lobes and apex of lip scarlet, passing 

 into yellowish red towards base of lip. with two red spots 

 at the base inside, tip of side lobes white. Column white 

 short with a foot nearly as long. Anther small orbicular 

 ovate with a minute beak. Clinandrium shallow, ros- 

 tellum very short. Pol I in ia 4 lobed, upper lobe elliptic, 

 lower smaller, pedicel small cuneate. disc minute ovoid. 



Johore: Tehran River fi. H. 11 S. Feb. 1909. 



A very distinct and pretty plant very unlike any 

 other Sarcochilus in the flattened stem, and salmon 

 colored flower with bright red lip. it flowered in the 

 Botanic Gardens, Singapore. 

 Dendrocolla multicolor, n. sp. 



Stem short 1 inch long. Leaves about 5 terete sub- 

 acute -t inches long, ^ inch through dark green. Scapes 

 slender purple 2--t inches long including raceme, which 

 is thickened and 1 inch long. Bracts crowded short 

 fleshy ovate blunt boat-shaped green. Pedicel slender 

 purple nearly half an inch long. Sepals orange colour 

 oblong spathulate narrowed at the base J: inch long. 

 Petals obovate oblong, apex rounded orange with pink 

 spots. Lip orbicular spathulate with a linear claw, and 

 orbicular obovate limb rounded entire orange with red 

 spots flat, calli violet large, two fleshy linear, obtuse, and 

 two central smaller claw violet with two orange bands. 

 Column tall orange oblong deeply channelled in front. 

 Anther whitish deeply lobed on the top, broad very shortly 

 beaked. Pollinia ovoid pedicel broad and short square, 

 disc small linear. Capsule linear sausage-shaped 1 inch 

 long, J inch through. 



Borneo: Sarawak, Kuching (Hewitt Oct, 08). 



Jour. Straits Branch 



