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SARCOCHILUS Calcéolus. 
The slippered Fleshlip. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ORCHIDACE=. $ VANDEE—ŠARCANTHIDA. (OrcHIDs, 
Vegetable Kingdom, p. 173.) 
SARCOCHILUS.— Supra, fol. 1832. 
S. Calceolus ; caulescens, radicans, foliis oblongis carnosis obliquè emargi- 
natis obtusis, pedunculis brevibus squamatis bifloris supra-axillaribus, 
sepalis petalisque carnosis oblongis subsequalibus acutis, labelli lobo 
medio oblongo tereti solido spongioso laciniis lateralibus ascendentibus 
triangularibus acuminatis verrucis duabus ciliatis interjectis. 
This very singular species is a native of Manilla, whence 
Mr. Cuming sent it to Messrs. Loddiges, of whose catalogue 
it is 1554. The lengthened stem is at variance with the 
usual habit of Sarcochilus, as also is the lip so far as the very 
large size of its middle lobe is concerned. But no other dis- 
tinctions appear to exist. The resemblance of the lip to a 
slipper is too obvious to require being pointed out; it is, 
however, but a false resemblance after all, for it has no hole 
for the foot, being solid and spongy, and in reality closed up 
by a pair of little ciliated warts. (See Fig. 1.) Fig. 2 repre- 
sents the column, and 3 the pollen-masses. 
The following is a list of the species of this genus at pre- 
sent known. 
1. S. falcatus (R. Brown Prodr. 332. Lindl. gen. & sp. orch. 
842. Bot. Register, t. 1832); acaulis, foliis oblongo- 
lanceolatis acutis, racemo laxo multifloro foliorum longi- 
tudine, labelli lobo medio obsoleto rotundato lateralibus 
oblongis ascendentibus petaloideis. —— New Holland 
Flowers white with a few pink streaks on the lip, 
whose middle lobe is yellow. 
2. S. parviflorus (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1838. misc. 50) ; acaulis, 
foliis oblongis undulatis chartaceis apice acute et obligue 
bidentatis, racemis nutantibus quadrifloris, sepalis lineari- 
obovatis acutis lateralibus basi dilatatis, petalis falcatis 
obtusis, labelli cum columná articulati lobo medio minimo 
transverso rotundato: disco callis variis crassis rotun- 
datis tuberculato.—— New Holland——Flowers small, 
green, with a few spots of dull purple on the sepals. The 
