Tab. 7010. 

 SARCOCHILUS Haktmanni. 



Native of Queensland. 



Nat. Ord. Orchide.e. — Tribe Vande^. 

 Genus Sabcochiixs, Br. ,• {JBenth. et Rook.f. Gen. PI. vol. iii. p. 575.) 



Saecochiltjs Hartmanni ; foliis lineari-oblongis coriaceo-carnosis apice bidentatis 

 medio cannabis, pedunculis foliis longioribus crassis suberectis, squamis sparsis 

 carnosis brevibus ovatis obtusis instructis, racemis multifloris, bracteis brevibus 

 triangularibus, pedicellis brevibus basique periantbii extus rubro-punctatis, 

 sepalis petalisque consimilibus oblongis obtusis albis basi rubro-punctatis, 

 labello brevissimo saccato, lobis lateralibus ovato-obtongis obtusis erectis, 

 intermedio brevissimo obtuso, disco callo 2-lobo instructo. 



S. Hartmanni, Ferd. Muell. Fragment, vol. viii. p. 248. 



S. rubrieentrum, Fitzgerald in Gard. Chron. 1880, p. 38, and in Australian 

 Orchids, vol. ii. pt. i. 



Thrixspevmum Hartmanni, Rchh.f. in Gard. Chron. vol. vii. (1877) p. 716. 



As a species, this appears to be very near indeed to 8. 

 ffltzgeraldi, F. Muell., but, as Mr. Fitzgerald points out, 

 the habit is erect, and the very stout peduncles and racemes 

 at once distinguish it. It is a native of mountain woods 

 near Towomba, and at Cairns, in Queensland, where it 

 was discovered by Mr. E. Ramsay, F.L.S. Our plant was 

 received from Mr. J. F. Roberts, nurseryman, of Kew near 

 Melbourne, in 1883, and it flowers annually in the cool 

 Orchid House in the early spring. 



Desce. Stems loosely tufted, short, stout, with very long 

 strong aerial roots. Leaves three to five, two to five inches 

 long, hard and fleshy, linear- oblong, tip obtuse or equally 

 or unequally obtusely two-toothed, channelled down the 

 middle, keeled at the back, light green. Peduncle as thick 

 as a goose-quill, as long as or longer than the leaves, sub- 

 erect, with a few distant fleshy ovate green bracts ; raceme 

 four to five inches long, laxly many-flowered; bracts small, 

 triangular, persistent; pedicels a quarter of an inch 

 and short ovary and base of perianth externally speckled 

 with red. Perianth three-quarters of an inch in diameter; 



AUGUST 1st, 1888. 



