168 CXLVIII. ORCHIDEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) [.Hemipilia. 
leaf ovate or oblong, lip obcordate, spur shorter than the sepals, Reichb. f. 
in Ot. Hamb. 38; Bot. Mag. t. 6920. 
TENASSERIM ; on limestone rocks at Moulmein, Gilbert, Parish. 
Leaf 3-5 in., from almost orbicular-ovate to linear-oblong acute, and slender scape 
and bracts dark green mottled with brown. Scape with few-fld. racemes 6-8 in.; 
flowers distant, 2 in. diam. ; bracts shorter than the ovary ; dorsal sepal oblong, and 
lateral and petals white; lip purple, side lobes low, rounded, midlobe broad, 2-lobed ; 
pollinia small, oblong, adnate to the elongate spathulate caudicles. 
109. SATY RIUM, Swartz. 
Terrestrial leafy erect herbs, tubers undivided. Leaves broad or narrow. 
Flowers in dense spikes. Sepals and petals subsimilar, free, spreading 
or deflexed. Jip superior, sessile at the base of the column, erect, broad, 
hooded, 2-spurred or -saccate behind. Column erect, terete ; stigma terminal, 
broad, concave, ‘or forming with the rostellum a 2-lipped body; anther 
dorsal, cells subparallel ; pollinia 2, caudicles recurved, glands large naked 
sometimes connate.—Species 50, African and Indian. 
S. nepalense, Don Prodr. 26; Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 340; m 
Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 44; Wight Ic. t. 929; Bot. Mag. t. 6625; Wail. Cat. 
7025, S. Perrottetianum, A. Rich. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 2, xv. 76, t. 53; 
Wight Ic.t. 1716. S. albiflorum, A. Rich. Le: Wight Ic. t. 1717. 
pallidum, A. Rich. l. c. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, from Kashmir, alt. 4-6000 ft., eastwards, ascending to 
14,000 ft. in Sikkim. KmuasrA HILLS, alt. 4-6000 ft. The Deccan PENINSULA, from 
Conean to Travancore. CEYLON, alt. 4-6000 ft. ?BuRMA; Shan states, alt. 
ft., Manders. 
Stem with spike 6-80 in., usually very stout, sheathed above. Leaves few, from 
oblong to linear-oblong, 4-10 by 2-4 in., rather fleshy, sessile, base sheathing. 
Spike 1-6 in., dense-fld. ; bracts much larger than the flowers, oblong or lanceolate, 
erect spreading or recurved ; ovary turgid, } in. long; flowers from dark pink to 
white, fragrant; sepals linear-oblong, obtuse, spreading and recurved ; petals rather 
narrower ; lip superior, broadly oblong, concave, strongly keeled on the back, spurs 
variable in length and stoutness, about as long as the ovary ; column contracted and 
terete at the base ; anther broad, cells turgid, tubes short, pollinia clavate, caudicles 
short, glands orbicular ; stigma large, concave.— A very common and variable plant. 
The Burmese specimen bas orbicular leaves at the very base of the stem. , 
Var. Wightiana; radical leaves few broad, spike short dense-fld. S. Wigbti- 
»num, Lindl. Gen. § Sp. Orchid. 340; in Journ. Linn. Soc. l.c. ; Wight Ic. t. 1718. 
—Nilghiri Mts. 
Var. ciliata, Lindl. 1. l. c. ; a small plant with spurs hardly longer than the 
sepals.— Sikkim, alt. 7-12,000 ft., J. D. H. Bhotan, alt. 10,000 ft., Griffith. 
110. DISPERIS, Swartz. 
Terrestrial leafy herbs ; tubers entire. Leaves 2 or more, scattered, sessile, 
cordate. Flowers solitary or few. Dorsal sepal very narrow, coheren 
with the broad petals into a subglobose hood ; lateral spreading or deflexed, 
free or bases connate, disk with a depression within answering to a cone 
without. Zip confluent with the column to above the anther, appearing 35 
if it surmounted the column. Column short in the Indian species, teret? 
below, stigmas on a transverse hyaline membrane, the ends of which form 
twisted tubular processes that sheath the caudicles and glands of the 
