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SARCANTHUS Parisuit. 
Mr. Parish’s Sarcanthus. 
Nat. Ord. OrcHIDE®.—GYNANDRIA MoNANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tan. 4693.) 
SaRCANTHUS Parishii ; foliis loratis apice oblique bilobis obtusis, spicis simpli- 
cibus, sepalis petalisque breviter oblongis obtusis planis ‘aureis vittis 2 
parallelis rubris, labelli caleare ovario zequilongo curvato cbtuso in labellum 
brevissimum subtrulliforme roseum producto. 
Sent by the Rev. C. 8. P. Parish, of Moulmaine, toMessrs. 
Low, of the Clapton Nursery, with whom it flowered in August 
of the present year. 
Descr. Plant small, with the stem short, and apparently not 
tending to elongate, as in its curious terete-leaved congeners, 8. 
Jiliformis and 8. teretifolius. Leaves distichous, spreading, or 
recurved, four to five inches long, three-quarters of an inch broad, 
rather firm and fleshy, deep-green, keeled at the back from being 
somewhat longitudinally complicate, the apex very unequally and 
bluntly bilobed, with a shallow acute sinus. Spikes as long as 
the leaves, slender and flexuose, quite simple in our plant, shortly 
peduncled. Vowers rather loosely disposed, small, brightly-co- 
loured, about one-third of an inch across. Sepals and petals 
shortly oblong, blunt, plane, golden-yellow, with two broad lon- 
gitudinal red bands that do not extend beyond two-thirds of 
their length. zp short, small, of irregular figure, pale rose- 
coloured, produced anteriorly into a short, broad, rather concave, 
trulliform lamina, and posteriorly into a curved, stout, cylindrical 
spur as long as the ovary.—J. D. #7. 
Fig. 1. Front view of a flower. 2. Side view of the column and lip. 3, 4. 
Front and side view of the pollen-masses :—magnified. 
DECEMBER Isr, 1860. 
