THE FLORA OF THE MALAY· PENINSULA

Cymbidium.] CXXXVI. ORCHIDE..E. 147
lanceolate acuminate, 6 to 8 in. long, I in. wide, base narrowed to
petioles, I in. long. Scape erect. Flowers 5 in lax raceme, I in.
across. Bracts short ovate. Sepals oblong-Ianceolate acute green.
Petals broader with a central pink dotted line. Lip pandurate
entire fiat, tip broad, white, edge at base and some blotches crimson,
a broad raised ridge from base, Z short blunt ones in centre. Column
broad stout green spotted pink. Hab. In forests, sporadic and
uncommon up to 3500 ft. altitude. Malacca, Bukit Sadanen
(Derry). Perak, Bujong Malacca; Gunong Batu Putih (Wray);
Thaiping Hills (Kunstler). Dlstrib. India, China, Japan, Malay
isles .
. (7) C. stapelireflorum Teysm. alld Binn. Nat. Tijdsch. xxiv.
ZI9· C. Huttoni Hook. fil. Bot. Mag. t. 5676; Ridl. Mat. i. 141.
C. Stephensi Ridl. Journ. Bot. 1900, p. 71.
Large epiphyte with big ovoid pseudobulbs, 3 to 5 in. long.
Leaves z, oblong blunt thick coriaceous, 8 in. long, 4 in. wide.
Raceme pendulous, 6 to 8 in. long with 10 large flowers I in. across.
Bracts widely triangular. Sepals ovate-oblong acummate yellowish
densely spotted in lines with chocolate. Petals falcate chocolate.
Lip 3-lobed, lobes broad blunt, midlobe round-orbicular channelled
in centre. Column thIck curved. H abo Rare in mountain forests,
Perak, Thaiping Hills (Stephens). Dtstrib. Sumatra, Java.
47. DIPODIUM, Lindl.
Stems leafy, terrestrial or climbing (or in Australia leafless).
Leaves linear articulated, rather thin distichous. Racemes axillary
lax, long peduncled. Flowers showy rather large. Sepals and
petals similar, spreading. Lip adnate to column base, side-lobes
small. Column short broad, wings large. Anther small. Pollinia
2, caudicles 2 linear, disc round. Species 6, Malaya, Australia,
Polynesia.
Stem scandent; hp and sepals broad blunt . (I) D. pictum
Stem erect; sepals narrow; hp narrow acute . (2) D. paIudosum
(I) D. pictum Rchb. Xen. Orch. ii. IS and ZO, t. 107; Bot. Mag.
t. 7951; Ridl. Mat. i. 141. Wailesia picta Lwdt. Journ. Hart. Soc.
iv. z6z. (Fig. 171, p. 148.) "
Stem climbing on trees from the ground and clasping by roots,
Z to 7 ft. tall. Leaves 8 in. long, I in. wide. Scape 10 to 1Z in.
long. Flowers 1'5 in. wide. Sepals oblong blunt, laterals oblique.
Petals broader. All yellowish in front, with Indian red blotches
on the back. Lip shorter oblong, side-lobes very small acute,
white with pink spots and 3 pink keels woolly, especially on tip
and keels. Column short broad orange, base woolly. Capsule
broad elliptic, Z in. tong. Hab. In forests, creeping on ground
and then climbing up trees. Singapore, Kranji; Changi. Malacca
(Griffith); Mt. Ophir. Pahang, Tahan River; Telom. Selangor,