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NEW PLANTS FROM SARAWAK. 
yellow at the base with 3 crimson slashes at base and 
one on each side below the stigma ; free portion of column 
short and thick; anther conic white adnate by a process 
at the back of the clinandrum. Stigma very broad 
rounded heart-shaped; rostellum short, margins retuse. 
Sarawak, Kuching, fh H.B.S. June 1911. 
This is it appears quite different from A. Curtisii ,. 
Rchb. hi, “ Gardener’s Chronicle,” 1881, page 169, as it has 
no,side lobes and no ridges on the lip. A . Curtisii was ob¬ 
tained in either Sumatra or Borneo. Its lip resembles more 
that of a Bulbophyllum than that of an Acanthephippium. 
It was brought by the Head Gardener of the Singapore 
Botanical Gardens, B. K. Sahib. It is the prettiest of 
all the genus as far as I have seen them and reminds one 
of Lycaste Skinneri in colouring of the flower, but cannot 
be said to be as fine a plant as that old favourite. 
Agrostophyllum arundinaceurn, n. sp. 
Stems a foot or more long T 3 g inch wide somewhat 
flattened. Leaves linear acuminate subcoriaceous acute 
6 inches long \ inch wide sheaths \ inch long. Capitulum 
sessile pale half an inch through with 3 or 4 broad 
ovate truncate darker colored bracts at the back* 
Flowers 3 in short racemes covered with pale ovate 
oblong blunt bracts finely ribbed, the lowest empty J inch 
long. Flow'ers shorter than their broad oblong boat 
shaped bract J inch long. Pedicel thick half as long. 
Sepals ovate obtuse. Petals linear obtuse shorter and 
much narrower all apparently white. Lip as long as the 
petals fleshy dark colored apparently purple, entire, 
shoe-shaped, rounded at the tip and thick, sides thinner 
at base wrapping the column with a transverse ridge or 
lamna towards the base cutting off a sunken space as 
nectary. Column as long as the lip, dark colored. 
Anther large rather broad and low deeply emarginate at 
the back. Pollinia large elliptic. Clinandrium deep with 
a high dorsal point. Stigma large and wide with a 
prominent V-shaped lower margin. Base of column 
below r the stigma very short. 
Borneo, Mt. Poe at 2,000 feet alt. on a rock, 
Oct. 1909 (C. J. Brookes 5). 
A very curious plant with its short racemes of 
glumaceous bracts, concealing the small flowers. The 
lip is quite spurless, having only a continuation of the 
