Sarcochilus.] OvchideCB. 1 83 



clawed, jointed on the foot of the column, 3-lobed, disk 

 pubescent; column short, broad, foot rather long; anth. hemi- 

 spheric, imperfectly 2-celIed, pollinia 4, waxy, pyriform or 

 subglobose, subsessile in pairs on a broad gland. — Sp. 40 ; 3 

 in FL B. Ind. 



P. zeyla-ica, Lindl. itt Bot. Reg. xxiv. Misc. 78 (1838). 

 P. lufeola, Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. jy, Thw. Enum. 308 (non Hook.). 

 C. P. 2360. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 21. 



Stem rather stout, 6-10 in., base more or less swollen and 

 hard, clothed with old leaf sheaths; 1. few, alt, distichous, 

 4-8 by h-\\ in., oblong, linear-oblong, or oblanceolate, obtuse, 

 many-veined, tip with a minute obtuse incurved tooth; ped. 

 with panicle 6-10 in., branches 1-3 in., subsecund, striate, 

 forming racemes 1-3 in. long, pedicels with ov. \ in.; 

 sep. T6-1V in. long; lip cuneate-obovate, side lobes small, 

 acute, mid lobe rounded, disk furfuraceous ; fr. h in., fusiform. 



Moist region to 4000 ft.; rather common. Peradeniya; Medulkelle. 

 Fl.; pale yellow, tinged with pink. 



Endemic. 



P. Wightii, Rchb. f. of S. India is given doubtfully for Ceylon in 

 Fl. B. Ind. It scarcely differs from P. zeylanica save in its smaller size, 

 nnd is figured in Wight, Ic. t. 1678 {P. luteold). 



25. SARCOCKXZ.US, Br. 



Epiphytes ; stem long short or o, pseudobulbs o ; 1. disti- 

 chous, coriaceous; fl. usually small, racemose or spicate; sep. 

 spreading, lateral adnate by a very broad base to the foot 

 of the column ; lip jointed or not, on the foot of the 

 column, erect or incurved, clawed or not, saccate, sac various; 

 column very short, foot long or short, rostellum beaked or 

 not; anth. membranous, convex, imperfectly 2-celled, pollinia 

 2 or 4, waxy, globose or oblong, strap short or long, broad, 

 gland small; fr. linear or sausage-shaped, usually long, 

 straight, terete, with narrow ribs. — Sp. about 50; 36 in Fl. 

 B. Ind. 



Fl. inserted all round the rhachis of a spike or raceme. 

 Fl. racemose. 



Lip sessile i. S. WiGHTll. 



Lip long-clawed . . . . . . 2. S. viridiflorus. 



Fl. in a very short terminal spike. 



L. flat 3- S. PULCHELLUS. 



L. semiterete 4. S. PUGIONIFORMIS. 



Fl. distichous on a flattened rhachis . . . 5. S. COMPLANATUS. 



