rides. | CXLVIII. OROHIDEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) 4T 
Wight’s S. rubrum. Pedunele very short and stout; raceme simple or sparingly 
branched, rachis stout; bracts minute; flowers 2 in. diam., bright red in Wight’s 
S. rubrum, nearly white with rosy tips in his S. Wightianum; spur about as long 
as the blade of the lip, incurved, obtuse; anther beaked ; strap of pollinia short, 
subtriangular, gland large. Capsule 2 in. long, pyriform, angled and grooved. 
12. Æ. lineare, Hook. f.; stem short stout, leaves 6-12 by i-i in. 
very unequally 2-lobed, panicle long peduncled much branched longer 
than the leaves, flowers as in JE. radicosum, but rather smaller rose-cold. 
Saccolabium lineare, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7312. S. paniculatum, Wight Ic. 
t. 1676; Reichb. f. in Bonpl. iii. 225. Cymbidium lineare, Herb. Heyne. 
DECCAN PENINSULA ; on the Ghats from Canara southwards, alt. 5-7500 ft., 
Wight, &c. CEYLON ; in the Doombera district, Thwaites. . . . 
. As far as I can judge from dried specimen Æ. bineare is with difficulty dis- 
tinguishable from Æ. radicosum, except by the more slender very much branched 
Panicle, and rather smaller flowers, Wallich’s specimens of Sacc. lineare are very 
ad.— The Synonyms of this and the preceding may be mixed. 
Sect. III. Leaves lorate, keeled. Midlobe of lip incurved between the 
much larger side lobes. 
13. Se odoratum, Lour. FI. Coch. 525; lobes of leaf large rounded, 
lateral sepals much larger than the dorsal and petals, midlobe of lip 
oblong-lanceolate acute entire or erose. Lindl, Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 239; 
tn Journ, Linn. Soc. iii. 4] ; Bot. Mag. 4139; Pazt. Fl. Gard. ii. t. 148 ; 
Flor. Cal, ii. 75; Maund Botanist. iv. t. 180; Knowles & West. t. 75; 
Hartm. Parad. ii. t. 4; Walp. Ann. vi. 898, Lindenia, t. 14(var.). Æ. cor- 
nutum, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 63; Fl. Ind. iii. 472; Bot. Reg. t. 1485. 
TRoPIcaL HIMALAYA; Nepal, Wallich ; Sikkim, J. D. H. The Kuasra HILLS, 
Situer, CHITTAGONG and TeNasseRIm. The Concan, Heyne in Herb. Rottl.— 
ISTRIB. Java, China, Cochin- China. . 
Stem 4-12 in. very stout. Leaves 6-10 by $-1$in. Racemes many, 10-12 in. ; 
Peduncle and rachis stout; flowers purple to nearly white, sweet-smelling, often 
Purple-spotted or -tipped; side lobes of lip subcuneate, midlobe short; spur very 
arge, uncinately incurved ; column short; anther obtuse ; strap of pollinia not long, 
inear, gland small, Capsule 1-14 in., oblong-clavate, angles obtuse ; pedicel 5 in., 
Very stout 
Var. bicus idata; mi ip with a bicuspidate tip.—MaAracca, Maingay 
(Kew Distrib. 1648) i Penan Qo Hort. Caleut.). A specimen of this sent from 
Calcutta (Garden?) to Herb. Hooker by Dr. Carey is named by the latter Æ. 
cornutum 
FI 14. TÓE. suavissimum, Lindl. in Journ. Hort. Soc. iv. 263; in Part. 
Gard. ii. 141, t. 66; differs from Æ. odoratum in the midlobe of the 1p 
1898 longer and emarginate. Jard. Fleur. t. 213; Rolfe in Gard. Chron. 
90, i. 43; Walp. Ann. vi. 898. Æ. Reichenbachii, Linden in ‘Koch & 
sten. Wochenschrift, 1858, 61; eicht, f. Xen. Orchid. ii. 11, t. 104. 
«Nobile, Warner Sel. Orchid. Ser. 1. t. 11; Gartenft, 40, H gece 
-o p manum, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1884, i. 206. Æ. flavidum, . 
Tage nt. on Gard. ii. 101. Æ. Ballantinianum, Reichd. f. in Gard. Chron. 
PENANG and Bur 
: MA, . 
are Said to be the sweetest scented species of the genus, but more definite characters 
Wanting to distinguish it from Æ. odoratum. The sepals and petals are rosy 
With low e: inianum i ] 
owering pua ker tips, the spur yellow mottled red. Æ. Ballantinianum 1s an early 
l5. 3E. Emerici, Reichs. f. in Gard. Chron. 1882, 586; lobes of 
