Tab. 5408. 



SARCOPODIUM PSITTACOGLOSSUM. 



Parrot-tony ued Sarcopodium. 



Nat. Ord. Orchide^e. — Gynandria Monogynia. 



Gen. Char. Sepala ringentia, coriacea v. carnosa, lateralibus basi prodnctis 

 columnar pedi adnatis, dorsali sequalibus v. minoribus. Petala minora. Labellum. 

 nanura, cum basi producta columnae articulatum, camosura, mobile, .canalicula- 

 tum, basi subcordatum, nunc lamellis 3 brevibus auctum, nunc inappendiculatum. 

 Columna nana, semiteres, mutica, basi in pedem producta. Stigma fovea sub 

 rostello excavata. Pollinia 4, collateralia, 00 00, subaequalia, cereacea, omnino 

 libera. Anthera bilocularis. — Herbee epiphytes, Jsiee tropica, pseudobulbom. Folia 

 solitaria, coriacea. Flores solitarii v. pauci, conspicui, pedunculis radiealibus. 

 Lindl. 



Sarcopodium psittacoglossum ; repens, pseudobulbis oblongis vaginatis demum 

 (folio delapso) ovatis obtusis, vagina pulcherrime reticulatim fibrosa, foliis 

 solitariis terrainalibus lato-ellipticis coriaceis obtusis longe lateque petio- 

 latis, pedunculis radiealibus pseudobulbis brevioribus bifloris, sepalis peta- 

 lisque subunifonnibus patenti-subcampanulatis ovatis flavo-virescentibus 

 rubro-striatis, columna bidentata, labello (dimidio superiore reflexo) ovato 

 trilobo linea centrali elevato. 



Bolbophyllum psittacoglossum. Reich. Jil. in lift. 



This we consider to belong to a genus lately established in 

 Dr. Lindley's ' Folia Orchidacea/ under the name of Sarcopodium, 

 " intermediate," the author says, " between Bendrobium and Bol- 

 bophyllum, having the large flowers of the former and the pecu- 

 liar creeping habit of the latter. The species agree with Ben- 

 drobium in having four nearly equal pollen-masses and a hornless 

 column; but they have coriaceous, not thin half-transparent 

 flowers, and a tough leathery lip, enlarged, not contracted at the 

 base. If they had a caudicle and gland to their pollen-masses, 

 they would almost be Asiatic Mawillarias. The flowers form 

 neither horn nor spur, but are simply inflated and expanded at 

 the base of the sepals." The same able author enumerates 

 sixteen species, most of those described having appeared as 

 Bolbophylla, some as Bendrobia. Amongst them is Bolbophyllum 



OCTOBER 1st, 1863. 



