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SARCANTHUS* guttatus. 

 Spotted^Jiowered Sarcaiithus. 



• GYNANDRIA MONAXDRIA. 



Nat. ord. Orciiide.t. Jass. % Vandece. — {Introduction to the natural 

 system, p. '262.) " 



SARCANTHUS Lindl. — PoUinia 2, cereacca, postice sulcata v. lobata: 

 candiculd varia. Anthera bilocularis. Stigyna cxcavatum v. quadratum : 

 rostello vario. Columna soniiteres, inappendiculata. Labcllum suliintegrum 

 diftorme cum columna articulatum, calcaratum: calcare intils appendiculato. 



Sepala patentia subaHjualia. Herbaj cpiphytce (Indian orientalis ct ChiiiiK) 



caulescentcs ; radicihus caulinis tortuosis ; foVns distichis pla7ns v. tcretibus; 

 floribus vittatis v. fasciatis ; racemis foliis oppositis. — Collect, botanic. 

 t. 39. B. 



S. guttatus ; tbliis loratis carinatis apice truncatis suba?qualibus, spicis cylin- 

 draceis pendulis dcnsiHoris foliis subitqualibus, sepalis lateralibus ovatis 

 obtusis petalis sepalocjue supremo dupio majoribus, labelli limbo ovato- 

 oblongo obtuso : calcare obtuso ovario breviore. 

 Aerides guttatum. Roxh. MSS. 



Caulis pcdalis v. ultra, u ramis arI)oru?n depcndens, dense foliis v. 

 J'oliortun basibus vestitus. Folia pedalia v. longiora, carnosa, carinata, 

 lucida, apice truncata, sed subcequalia, subtnucronata. Spicoi cylindracece, 

 axillares, multiflorcr , foliis subccrjualcs, scapo brcvi squaviuloso. Bracteae 

 viininKP. Flores albi, violacco et rosco guttati, carnosi, cxpansione 6-7- 

 lincari. Labellum roseum, calcare albo. Columna semitcres, rostello ovato 

 acuta, stigmate lincari longitudinali. PoUinia 2, postice sulcata, caudiculd 

 lineari, elasticd, glandulu minutd. 



Tliis species was long since transmitted to England 

 from India: in 1820 we saw, in Sir Joseph Banks's library, 

 a specimen in full flower that had been sent from the Royal 

 Garden at Kew ; but we have not heard of any European 

 Botanist, except Mr. Brown, having examined it, nor of any 



* So named on account of the fleshiness of the flowers of all the species ; 

 from c-ug^l, flesh, and ^v.^o?, a flower. 



