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SARCANTHUS rostratus. 
Long-beaked Sarcanthus. 
. GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Orciiidea. Tribus Vandeee Lindl. 
SARCANTHUS.—Pollinia 2, cereacea, posticfc sulcata v. lobata: cau- 
dicula varia. Anthera bilocularis. Stigma excavatum v. quadratum : 
rostello vario. Columna semiteres inappendiculata. Labellum subintegrum 
difforme cum column^, articulatum, calcaratum: calcare intiis appendiculato. 
Sepala patentia subeequalia. Herbce epiphyte (Indice orientalis et Chinee) 
caulescentes, radicibus caulinis tortuosis, folds distichis planis v. teretibus, 
fioribus vittatis v. fasciatis, racemis foliis oppositis. Lindl. coll. bot. 
t. 39. B. 
S. rostratus; foliis lanceolatis planis subrecurvis, spica simplice horizontali 
foliis subeequali, sepalis ovalibus patentibus subeequalibus, labello anthe- 
r&que rostratis. Lindl. 1. c. 
Vanda rostrata. Lodd. bot. cab. tab. 1008. 
Vanda recurva. Hook, ex.fi. tab.* 187. 
Epiphyta ramosa. Caules crassi, purpurei, teretes. Folia lanceolata, 
camosa, subrecurva. Spica pedunculata, oppositifolia, horizontalis , foliis 
subeequalis. Ovarium teres, album. Sepala patentia, eequalia, ovalia, lutes- 
centia, rubro-vittata. Labellum carnosum, amcene purpureum, calcaratum, 
apice. rostratum, incurvum; clacar obtusum, ovario brevius, intus l-loculare, 
antice valde carnosum appendice operculari glabro simplice. Columna 
erecta, clavata, semiteres. Stigma subrotundum, excavatum, rostello in 
rostro longo producto. Anthera conformis, bilocularis. Pollinia 2, biloba ; 
caudicula subulatd elongatd; glandula parva. Lindl. 1. c. 
This plant belongs to the same genus as the Aerides 
paniculata of fol. 220 of this work, and has been separated 
from Vanda, to which it was subsequently referred, by the 
writer of this article. 
The species of Sarcanthus “ differ from Vanda in the 
form and structure of their labellum, which is never saccate, 
but has always a spur with one or more appendages in its 
inside, in the texture of their perianthium, and in habit. 
