64 cxivitt. ogOHIDEX. (J. D. Hooker.) f Saccolabium. 
j-i in. diam.,' greerish white; lip clouded with rose-colour, blade situated at the 
mouth of the spur which it embraces, broadly deflexed flabelliform membranous 
outer margins crenulate or trifid, side lobes free rounded; spur very short, conical, 
incurved. 
36. S. maculatum, Hook. f.; leaves 4-6 in., raceme elongate much 
longer than the leaves laxly many-fld., spur obtuse villous within. Micro- 
pera muculata. Dalz. in Hook. Journ. Bot. iu. (1851), 282; Dalz. & Gibs. 
Bomb. Fl. 263; Lindl. in Journ. Linn, Soc. iii. 38. Sarcochilus macu- 
latus, Benth. in Gen. Plant. iii. 575. 
The SOUTHERN Concan and CANARA ; on the Western Ghats, Dalzell, Stocks, 
Ritchie, Ke. 
Leaves 1-2 in., broad, linear-oblong to cuneately oblong, 2-lobed. Raceme 
8-12 in., very shortly peduncled ; bracts short, broad; rachis stout ; flowers } m. 
diam., subsessile ; sepals and petals yellow with a central purple spot; lip white an 
rose-cold., blade situated below the mouth of the short saccate obtuse spur, which it 
overlaps, very coriaceous, entire; side lobes connate below, narrow, erect and re- 
curved. Capsule 14 in., fusiform, 6-ribbed.— Allied, I think, to S. viridiflorum, 
and not a Sarcochilus, to which Bentham has referred it. 
Sect. V. DisricHa. (See p. 54.) 
37. S. distichum, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 36; leaves 1 1n. 
lanceolate acuminate or 2-3-cuspidate, peduncle 2-3-fld., sepals and petals 
obovate-oblong, lip with a saccate subhemispheric spur, midlobe small semi- 
circular fleshy entire with a didymous callus at the base. Reichb. f. Otia 
Hamburg, 43. 
SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 6-8000 ft., Grifith’s Collectors. Kuasta HILLS 
alt. 5-6000 ft., J. D. H. & T. T. MuNNIPORE, alt. 6900 ft., Watt. 
Stems 4-8 in., filiform. Leaves very fleshy. Peduncle rarely longer than the 
leaves; flowers racemose, }—} in. diam. ; bracts small; sepals and petals green oF 
yellowish spotted with purple; side lobes of lip 0; column very short. Capsule 
2 in., fusiform, 
38. S. tenuicaule, Hook. f.Ic. Plant. ined.; leaves 3-4 in. linear-lan- 
ceolate, flowers shortly pedicelled on a tubercle of the stem, sepals broadly 
obliquely ovate acute, petals smaller, side lobes of lip erect subacute nearly 
as long as the lanceolate incurved bicuspidate midlobe, spur short con- 
stricted above the saccate incurved base, villous within at the constriction. 
PENANG ; on West Hill, Curtis. PERAK, Scortechini, Wray. 
Stem 8-12 in., as thick as a crow-quill, simple or branched, rooting at the base 
only, deeply grooved. Leaves 1-3 in. broad, strict. Flowers 1 in. diam., pale green; 
sepals thin, nerves 3 faint; petals l-nerved; column stout ; midlobe of lip cymbi- 
form smooth. Column short, anther membranous, almost flat, acuminate ; rostellum 
projected, styliform ; strap of small reniform pollinia broad, with a dilated subreni- 
form apex, gland small. 
Sect. VI. Speciosæ. (See p. 54.) 
39. S. ampullaceum, Lindl.in Wall. Cat. 7307; Sert. Orchid. t. V s 
in Journ, Linn. Soc. ii. 35 (excl. syn.); leaves suberect acutely 2-fid. oF 
truncate and toothed, raceme subsessile, shorter than the leaves, Sp"T 
straight. Pawt. Mag. Bot. xiii. t. 49; Bot. Mag. t. 5595; Warner Orchid. 
Alb.t.191. Ærides ampullaceum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 476. 
TROPICAL HIMALAYA, alt. 1-3000 ft., from Nepal eastwards. SILHET, 
MuNNIPORE, BURMA, and TENASSERIM. 
Stem short, stout. Leaves 2-6 in., deeply channelled. Racemes shorter than 
the leaves, cylindric; bracts minute; flowers $ in. diam., rose-red; sepals an 
petals broadly obovate, widely spreading; spur longer than the blade of the lip. 
