68 OXLVII, ORCHIDE®. (J. D. Hooker.) [Sarcanthus. 
The Deccan PENINSULA; on the Ghats from the Concan to Travancore. 
CEYLON ; in the Saffragam district. "ES 
Siem 10-12 in., as thick as a duck's quill, flexuous, pendulous. Leaves uniform, 
6-8 by }-4 in., rigid, strict or curved, 3-5-nerved, acuminate, tip obtuse, sheaths 
ribbed. Racemes slender, bracts minute; flowers } in. diam., greenish or yellow 
with pink margins and a violet lip; sepals and petals rather spreading; spur 
more or less perfectly 2-celled, dorsal callus small; column short ; anther beaked, 
pollinia didymous, strap slender dilated upwards, gland small. Capsule 2-3 in, 
deflexed, narrowly oblong. 
6. S. insectifer, Reichb. f. im Bot. Zeit. 1857, 159; leaves many 
1 by 2 in. oblong amplexicaul, spikes very short stout few-fld., sepals ovate- 
oblong obtuse, petals oblong, side lobes of lip rounded, midlobe large trian- 
gular-ovate fleshy, spur short broadly conical. 
BEHAR; at Burkutta, J.D. H. Cacnar, Mann. Currragone (Ie. in Hort. 
Caleutt.). TENASSERIM, Parish. 
Stem a foot and upwards, robust, scandent, thicker than a goose-quill. Leaves 
subimbricate, obliquely obtusely 2-lobed with sometimes an intermediate apiculus, 
thickly corivceous. Spikes i in., sessile; bracts small, deciduous; flowers j in 
diam., greenish-yellow striped with red-brown; lip white and pink or purple, mid- 
lobe acute or acuminate, spur semiseptate mouth with a pubescent ridge, dorsal 
callus large; column very short, stout, tip reclinate and with uncinate recurved 
arms; anther truncate, pollinia globose didymous, strap short very broad, gland 
transverse. 
7. S. Scortechinii, Hook. f; leaves 3-5 by 12 in. subpetioled 
oblong-lanceolate acute flat, spike about equalling the leaves very stout 
many-fld., sepals oblong acute, petals half as broad, side lobes of lip ob- 
solete, midlobe hastately deltoid, spur longer than the sepals conical obtuse 
curved. 
PERAK, Scortechini; on rocks, Wray. 
Stem elongate, robust, as thick as a goose-quill. Leaves very thick. Spikes 
2-6 in., flowers Ä in. diam. ; sepals and petals lurid purple with green midrib and 
margins; lip 2 in., yellowish, spur 2-celled, dorsal callus large ; column short ; anther 
obtusely beaked; pollinia 4, broadly oblong, strap linear. . Capsules 1 DÉI 
linear-oblong, deflexed.—Described from fruiting specimens and a drawing by 
Scortechini. 
8. S. pallidus, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1840, Misc. 78; in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. ii. 39; leaves 10-14 in. lorate flat, panicle very large copiously 
branched laxly many.fld. sepals and smaller petals oblong obtuse, side 
lobes of lip triangular acuminate, midlobe a small incurved ovate acute 
fleshy beak, spur a cylindric obtuse sac. S. racemifer, Reichd. f. in Wulp- 
Ann. vi 891. S. tricolor, R. f. in Bonpland. ii. 219. Saccolabium racemi- 
ferum, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 924. Aerides racemiferum, Wall. mss. 
East NEPAL, alt. 4000 ft, J. D. H.  BHoTAN and the Kaasia HILLS 
alt. 4-6000 ft., Wallich, &c. Burma, Berkeley. 
Stem as thick as the thumb; roots very stcut. Leaves very coriaceous, 2 in. 
broad, deeply obtusely 2-lobed. Panicle with the stout peduncle 2-3 ft., branches 
long, slender; bracts at the forks ovate-lanceolate, floral subulate, persistent; 
pedicel with ovary 4 in. ; flowers 4 in. diam. ; sepals and petals dark purple edge 
with yellow ; lip white, spur thick-walled, about as long as the sepals, semiseptals 
longitudinally, dorsal callus 2-lobed; column short, stout, rostellum obscure; 
anther broad, acute, pollinia oblong, strap dilated above, gland small. (open 
i in. ellipsoid or clavate.— The E. Nepal specimen has shorter leaves and an ellipsoid 
capsule. 
