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SARCANTHUS* guttátus. 
Spotted-flowered Sarcanthus. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Oncnipex Juss. $ Vandew.—( Introduction to the natural 
system, p. 262.) 
SARCANTHUS Lindl.—Pollinia 2, cereacea, posticé sulcata v. lobata : 
candiculd varià.  Anthera bilocularis. Stigma excavatum v. quadratum: 
rostello vario. Columna semiteres, inappendiculata. Labellum subintegrum 
difforme cum columna articulatum, calcaratum: calcare intüs appendiculato. 
Sepala patentia subsequalia. Herbee epiphyte (Indice orientalis et Chine) 
caulescentes ; radicibus caulinis tortuosis ; foliis distichis planis v. teretibus ; 
eeu vittatis v. fasciatis ; racemis foliis oppositis. — Collect. botanic. 
t. 39. B. 
S. guttatus ; foliis loratis carinatis apice truncatis subeequalibus, spicis cylin- 
draceis pendulis densifloris foliis subeequalibus, sepalis lateralibus ovatis 
obtusis petalis sepaloque supremo duplo majoribus, labelli limbo ovato- 
oblongo obtuso: calcare obtuso ovario breviore. 
Aerides guttatum. Roxb. MSS. 
Caulis pedalis v. ultra, à ramis arborum dependens, densé foliis v. 
foliorum basibus vestitus. Folia pedalia v. longiora, carnosa, carinata, 
lucida, apice truncata, sed subequalia, submucronata. Spice cylindracee, 
azillares, multiflore, foliis subequales, scapo brevi squamuloso. _Bractew 
minime. Flores albi, violaceo et roseo guttati, carnosi, expansione 6-7- 
lineari. Labellum roseum, calcare albo. Columna semiteres, rostello ovato 
acuto, stigmate lineari longitudinali. Pollinia 2, postice sulcata, caudiculá 
lineari, elasticá, glandulá minut. 
This species was long since transmitted to England 
from India: in 1820 we saw, in Sir Joseph Banks's library, 
à specimen in full flower that had been sent from the Royal 
Garden at Kew ; but we have not heard of any European 
Botanist, except Mr. Brown, having examined it, nor of any 
* So named on account of the fleshiness of the flowers of all the species ; 
from ca,£, flesh, and Z»9ec, a flower. 
