Saccolabium. ] OXLVIIL ORCHIDE®. (J. D. Hooker.) 59 
BHorAN HIMALAYA, Lister, ASSAM; at Goalpara, Hamilton. SyYLHET, 
Wallich. 'TENASsERIM, Parish, 
Stem stout, rigid, internodes 3 in. Leaves 3-5 by i-i in., fleshy, 5-nerved. 
Raceme with long slender peduncle 5-6 in., laxly many-fld. ; bracts subulate; flowers 
in. diam., yellowish; sepals 5-nerved; petals much sm aller, cuneately obovate, 
3-nerved ; lip yellow, mouth of spur a very narrow chink, neck contracted, base 
globose didymous; side lobes of elongate column broad, roundéd, top recurved ; 
anther long-pointed ; strap of globose pollinia very slender arched, gland very 
minute.—Column and lip so different from the genus that Reichenbach 1. c. suggests 
its separation. Lindley’s name of parvulum is too misleading to be adopted. 
15. S. micranthum, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7300 ; Gen. A Sp. Orchid. 
220 ; leaves lorate unequally obtusely 2-lobed, scape stout flowering to 
the base, racemes very many and dense-fld., sepals broadly ovate obtuse 
3-nerved, petals oblong or lanceolate serrulate, spur of lip shorter than the 
sepals subtruncate, blade obovate-spathulate with 2 basal calli, lateral 
lobes broad obtuse. Saunders’ Refug. Bot. t. 110. 
TROPICAL HIMALAYA; from Garwhal and Kumaon, alt. 2-3000 ft., Falconer, 
Duthie; to Bhotan, Grigith. Assam, SILHET and the Naga HiLLs, Prain. 
TxNASSERIM, Griffith, Parish. ` sa: 
Stem 6-10 in., curved, as thick as a goose-quill or less. Leaves 3-5 by $-1 in., 
harrowed to the base. Raceme equalling the leaves; bracts small, broad; flowers 
about 3 in, diam.; 3-nerved sepals and petals violet; lip rose-red ; column very 
Short; anther very broad, acuminate globose; pollinia strap very short broadly 
cordate, gland orbicular. Capsules } in., subfusiform. 
16. S. rostellatum, Hook. f. lc. Plant. ined.; stem very Short, 
leaves 4-7 in. lorate flat unequally 2-fid, raceme much shorter than the 
leaves, bracts minute, sepals broadly ovate-oblong obtuse, lip infundidular 
narrowed below into a stout obtuse spur rather longer than the sepals, 
"de lobes truncate, midlobe an incurved beak. utt) 
IKKIM ; at Darjeeling, alt. 7000 ft., Gamble (in Herb. Calcutt.). . 
, Roots very many and long, Wee flat, age to the bark. Leaves 4-3 in. 
diam., nearly straight. Peduncle with 8—10-fd. raceme 2 in., slender; lowers 
In. long from the tip of vhe dorsal sepal to that of the spur ; petals oblong, obtuse, 
Smaller than the sepals; column very short; rosteilum subulate ; pollinia large, 
Blobose, cleft, 
17. S. minimifiorum, Hook. f. Ic. Plant. ined.; stem very short, 
leaves elliptic-lanceolate narrowed at both ends acute, scape much longer 
an the leaves very slender very many-fid., bracts subulate equalling the 
very minute flowers, sepals and petals oblong obtuse, lip conico-sacciform, 
side lobes 0, midlobe an incurved beak with a globose tubercle at the 
Mouth of the sac. 
Raa ege black when dry, thinly coriaceous 
3 sien 1-9 in, black when dry, , 
reddish benaise p et 2-6 p with a few subolate. empty bracts 
PW; flowers greenish yellow mottled, about An in. long or broad ; lip larger than 
oest of the periauth, its beak-like laterally compressed terminal lobe incurved 
Jet the mouth; column sbort; anther loug-beaked.—A curious little plant. I 
ave had difficulty in dissecting the few available flowers, and thereby confirming a 
“scription and rude drawing by Scortechini, who mentions ‘a something membra- 
nous whitish which I cannot make out whether it is a rostellum or stipes." This 
Sal to be a recurved elongate body which appears to be attached to the base ot 
olumn, 
18. e Jerdonia j ^ d lp. Ann. vi 886; leaves 
i . num, Reichb. f. in Walp. 
linear subacute, racemes simple or branched slender, sepals ovate 1-nerved 
