Tap. 7754, 
SARCOCHILUS titacinos. 
Native of the Malayan Peninsula and Islands, 
Nat. Ord. Orcu1DE&.—Tribe VANDEX. 
Genus SarcocuHi.vs, Br.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 575.) 
Sarcocuitus (Cuculla) lilacinus; glaberrimus, caule scandente subrobusto 
elongato basi decumbente, radicibus elongatis vaginas folioruam perforan-- 
tibus, foliis carnosulis alternis oblongis v. ovato-oblongis patenti-recurvis 
apicibus subacutis recurvis basi cordatis amplexicaulibus dorso carinatis 
enerviis pallide viridibus, pedunculis 8-10-pollicaribus robustis vaginis 
2-3 obtusis ornatis, racemo 1-8-pollicari pauci- v. multifloro, rhachi 
crassa compressa, bracteis distichis ovatis obtusis carnosis, floribus breviter 
pedicellatis ad 14 poll. latis pallide roseo-lilacinis, sepalis petalisque 
patulis late ovatis subacutis, labello sepalis dimidio breviore stipitato 
saccato, lobis lateralibus brevibus incurvis terminali rotundato, disco callo 
truncato pubescente instructo. 
S. lilacinus, Griff. Notul. vol. iii. p. 3384; Ic. Pl. Asiat. t. 320, f£.2. Hook.f. Fl. 
Brit. Ind vol. vi. p. 40. Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. Bot. per. ii. vol. iii. 
(1893) p. 371. 
S. lilacinus & amplexicaulis, Heichd. f. in Walp. Ann. vol. vi. p. 499. 
Dendrocolla amplexicaulis, Blume Bijdr. p. 288. 
Airides amplexicaule, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. p. 239, 
Orsidice amplexicaulis and lilacinus, Reichd. f. in Bonplandia, vol. ii. p. 93. 
Eig aoe amplexicaule & T. lilacinum, Reichb. f. Xen. Orchid. vol. ii, 
p. 121. 
Sarcochilus lilacinus is a native of swamps in the 
Malayan Peninsula, from Perak southward to Singapore ; 
also of Java, where it was described by Blume in 1825, 
Its habit of growth, climbing amongst bushes, is very 
unusual in the Order to which it belongs. The specimen 
figured was sent to the Royal Gardens, Kew, from 
Singapore by Mr. H. N. Ridley, M.A., F.L.S., Director 
of Forests and Gardens, Singapore. It flowered in a 
warm house in June, 1900, the individual flowers lasting 
only one day. 
Descr.—Stem about as thick as a crow-quill, decumbent 
below, then ascending and more or less scandent, by aid 
of the long vermiform white roots, which perforate the 
tubular, closely appressed leaf-sheaths. Leaves alternate, 
one and a half to two inches long, oblong or ovate-oblong, 
Janvaky Isr, 1901, 
