Pollinia 2, each completely divided into very unequal 
halves on a long, slender stipe. 
Plants usually small with slender inflorescences. Ra- 
chis loosely many-flowered, racemose or rarely subpan- 
iculate. 
Saccolabiopsis Gillespiei (L.O.Wms.) Garay, comb. nov. 
Basionym: Saccolabium Gillespieit L.O.Wms. in Bot. Mus. Leafl. 
Harv. Univ, 5: 1389, 1938. 
Saccolabiopsis pumila Garay, nom. nov. 
Basionym: Saccolabium pumilum Rid]. in Trans. Linn. Soc. Bot. 
ser. 2, 9: 204, 1916, not Hayata 1906. 
Saccolabiopsis rectifolia (Dockr.) Garay, comb. nov. 
Basionym: Robiquetia rectifolia Dockr., Austral. Sarcanth. 8, 1967. 
Saccolabiopsis tenella (Ames) Garay, comb. nov. 
Basionym: Saccolabium tenellum Ames, Orchid. 6: 308, 1920. 
Sarcanthopsis Garay, ven. nov. 
Type: Sarcanthus nagarensis Rehb.t. 
Etymology: Sarcanthus= a generic name and -opsis 
= like, in reference to the superficial similarity in the 
appearance of the flowers to those in the formerly recog- 
nized genus Sarcanthus. 
Sepala petalaque, patula, libera, similia, carnosa. Label- 
lum basi columnae adnatum, semiapertum seu ringens, 
intus dorsaliter per totam longitudinem papuloso incras- 
satum, quasi pulvinatum, angulato-gibbosum. Columna 
cylindrica, apoda. Clinandrium humile. Stigma medi- 
ocre, suborbiculare. Rostellum abrupte arrectum, bilo- 
bum. Pollinia 2, globosa unumquidque inaequaliter fissa, 
stipiti lineari affixa; glandula magna. 
Herbae epiphyticae, metrales vel ultrae altae; caulibus 
erectis, foliosis; foliis distichis, carnosis; inflorescentiis 
robustis, erectis, axillaribus, paniculatis, multifloris. 
It differs from Cletsostoma Bl. (Sarcanthus Lindl.) in 
the rotuliform floral segments, in the semiopen, gaping 
lip with a large, cushion-like, swollen backwall. V’andop- 
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