198 NEW AND EAEE SPECIES OF MALAYAN PLANTS. 



Eria Larutensis, Ri'dl. n. sp. 



Stem tall, stout compressed .4 in. wide. Leaves rather 

 thin, oblong, lanceolate acuminate, base shortly attenuate, 

 slightly oblique, nerves 6 or 7, elevate 6 in. long, 1.25 in. wide. 

 Racemes subterminal 4 over 12 in. long white, mealy with 

 short white hairs in tufts. Flowers very numerous. Bracts 

 lanceolate acuminate deflexed .05 in. long. Pedicel and ovary 

 .25 in. long, white hairy ; upper sepal oblong, blunt, laterals 

 very broad nearly .5 in. long and .25 in. wide at base; oblong 

 lanceolate. Men turn as long as sepal, all sprinkled with stel- 

 late hairs. Petals linear oblong, blunt, thin smaller than the 

 small upper sepal. Lip .5 in. long, side lobes oblong, blunt; 

 midlobe clawed terminal, part fan-shaped small with a large 

 blunt hairy callus on top, disc mealy from base to tip of 

 midlobe, a conic callus at the base of the lip woolly. Column 

 very short, foot long, narrow. 



Perak, Taiping Plills (Curtis and Derry 3712). 



Distinguished from all others of this group by its broad 

 strong nerved leaves ajid large flowers. 



Cymbidium rectum, Ridl. n. sp. 



A plant with the habit of ('. puiescens but the leaves 

 erect, very stiff semiterete and deeply grooved, coriaceous 18 

 in. long, .25 in. wide, bluntly unequally bilobed. Scapes erect, 

 12 in. Ion?; flowers few, distant. Bracts short ovate acute. 

 Ovary and pedicel 1 in. long. Sepals lanceolate .75 in. long. 

 Petals narrower, yellowish with a purple central bar. Lip 

 hardly lobed, side lobes obscure, rounded, midlobe ovate, blunt 

 with central yellow bar, and a crimson spot near the tip, side- 

 lobes spotted, crimson inside and on outside edge. Column 

 straight rather broad white densely red spotted in front; back 

 purple pink. Anther broad, blunt, yellow. Pollinia 2, con- 

 nate at top, broad semiorbicular, disc semilinear. 



Negri Sembilan, Siliau near Seremban (G-enyns-Wil- 

 liams). 



I had this plant many years ago, believed to have been 

 found in the Taiping Hills and brought down to Singapore 

 where it flourished and spread in the Botanic Gardens, and 

 was known under the name of C. erectum, but Wight had 

 utilised this name for a South Indian species or form of C. 

 aloifolivm. I appear however, to have never described it 

 being doubtful as to its locality. Mr. Williams found it near 

 Seremban and there was a good drawing of it among his collec- 

 tions of Orchid drawings. It is very distinct in its erect spike 

 and very narrow erect leaves. 



Jour. Straits Branch 



