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This wants the peculiar column of Schoenorchis, and is in no 

 respect distinguishable from Saccolabium. The leaves seem to 

 vary much in size. 



209. S. CHiONANTHUM ; foHis terctibus recurvis spicis simplicibus sequa- 

 libus, floribus (minutis) carnosis, sepalis obtuse carinatis petalisque 

 minoribus apiculatis, labello apice appendice plano-convexa trian- 

 gulari instructo calcare horizontali oblongo, antbera apice lineari 

 elongata erecta. — Schcenorchis micrantha, Blume, I. c. 



Java, Reinwardt. 



Like the last, this is quite without the essential character of 

 Schoenorchis. The whole plant is only 4 or 5 inches long, with 

 minute snow-white flowers. 



210. S. ampuUaeeum, Lindl. in Sert. Orch. t. 17. (S. rubrutn, Id. Gen. 

 8f Sp. no. 11. — Aerides ampullaceura, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii, 476.) 



Sikkim, in hot valleys, /. D. H. (196). 



The flowers are rather larger than in Wallich's specimens. S. 

 miniatum (Bot. Beg. 1848, t. 58) differs in little except colour, 

 varying greatly in the size of its flowers. 



211. S. brevifolium, Lindl. \. e. no. 27. 



Ceylon, Thwaites (488. — S. virescens, Gardner MSS.), Gardner (871). 



The form sent from Ceylon by Thwaites appears to be identical 

 with the original plant, except in having the flowers green in- 

 stead of red. 



212. S. gracile, Lindl. 1. c. 



Ceylon, Gardner (869) ; Hautane, Champion. 



213. S. FALLENS {Cathcart, MSS.) ; caulibus longis pendulis ramosis 

 radicantibus, foliis carnosis loratis oblique obtusis, racemis axillaribus 

 laxis flexuosis foliis brevioribus, sepalis petalisque oblongis a3qualibus, 

 calcare cornuto duplo longiore, limbi 3-lobi laciniis parvis subsequa- 

 libus lateralibus rotundatis intermedia acuta. 



Sikkim, Cathcart. 



I have seen no specimen of what seems a very distinct and hand- 

 some species ; the above description is taken from a figure of Mr. 

 Cathcart. The plant is represented as having branches 9 inches 

 long, protruding strong free flexible roots as long or longer than 

 themselves, leaves 8 inches, and loose zigzag racemes 4-5 inches. 

 The flowers are whitish, with a pink line in the middle of each 

 sepal and petal, and on the outside of the long curved spur. It 

 is very near the next species ; but the flowers are much larger, and 

 the middle lobe of the lip, instead of being as long as the spur, is 

 merely a triangular point. 



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