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at the back and ip of the mentum and tip of the sepals. Lip 
entire spathulate 14 inch long, the claw linear with a low V-shaped 
keel at the base, lamina oblong tip rounded narrowing into the claw 
margins undulate, 4 inch wide, canary yellow. Column base and 
foot green deeply channelled in front, stelidia erect little longer 
than the anther oblong truncate slightly retuse, orange colour. 
Anther white apex rounded, front margin truncate. 
Perak: Gunong Kerbau, coll. Mhd. ‘Aniff. 
Perhaps nearest to D. hymenopterum, Hook. fil. but differing 
in colour, shape of sepals, and in the keel on the dise. A dull 
looking plant even for this section. 
Hria (Brectescentes) ramulosa, n. sp. 
Stem creeping, branched several times cylindric or slightly 
thickened upwards, branches 6 inches long 4 inch are covered 
with a silvery grey epidermis finely striate. Leaves 2. terminal 
lanceolate acute narrowed at the base 3 inches long # inch wide thin 
textured. Raceme 2 inches long from below the leaves, about 
flowered. Bracts + inch long oblong creamy white. Pedicel and 
ovary as long, covered with dark red scurty hairs. Upper sepal 
lanceolate actite 4 inch, lower ones falcate scrotiform gibbous at base, 
adnate to the column foot, all pale flesh colour with pink nerves. 
Petals lanceolate linear faleate much narrower than the upper 
sepal. Lip as long as the sepals, three lobed. Side lobes falcate 
subobtuse pubescent pink darkest at the tips terminal lobe longer 
reniform bilobed, with a short tooth im the notch, disc between the 
side lobes whitish with a central purple-pink line elevated, and 
ending on the midlobe at the base in a transverse purple pink V, 
a shorter keel runs on each side, base brown purple, apex dark pink 
rest pale, dilated forwards and ending in a short raised wing at the 
base of the side wings. Column broad with a short foot white, 
Anther quadrate thin, pollinia subequal ovoid flattened bright 
yellow, foot of column shorter than upper part adnate to the sepals. 
‘This species is allied to #. xanthocheila, Ridl. and LH. carnea, 
hid]. The hp however is distinct in the broad reniform retuse 
midlobe, and the two short winged lateral keels, with the low median 
linear one. 
Tt was sent by Mr. Long from the Thaiping hills and flowered 
in the Botanic Gardens Singapore, ] March 1910. 
Hria saccata, n. sp. 
Habit of Hria densa, Ridl. pseudobulbs sausage-shaped cylin- 
dric 4 inches long 1 inch through. Leaf coriaceous slightly flaccid 
lanceolate acute narrowed to the petiole 8 inches long 1$ inch wide. 
Spikes 4 umelgs long rachis stout nigrohirsute. Bracts ovate white 
reflexed + inch long, flowers numerous densely crowded yellowish 
white. Ovary and pedicel half an inch long, covered with purple 
scurfy hairs. Upper sepal ovate obtuse white, $ inch long, laterals 
br oadly ovate forming between a long broad white aneritsbth nearly 
R. A. Sac., No. 61, 1912. 
