r84 Or chides. [SarcockHt/s. 



1. S. Wig-htli, Hk.f. in Fl. B. Ind. vi. 37 (1890). 



.S'. niinimifolius^ Hk. f. 1. c. Cytnbidium fnifiimifolium, Thw. Mss. 

 C. P. 4017. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 37. Wight, Ic. t. 1741 (right-hand figure) {Cliiloschista 

 iisneoides). 



A dwarf, almost stemless epiphyte, leafless when flg., with 

 many long flexuous flattened spreading compressed roots 

 6-8 in. long, appressed to the bark of trees; 1. 2 (or more.-') 

 i-i:^ in., linear-lanceolate, acuminate, channelled; ped. several, 

 radical, 1-3 in. long, flexuous, pubescent, with a few rather 

 distant subulate bracts, and 2 or 3 short tubular ones at the 

 base; spike short, decurved, laxly 5-6-fld. ; bracts as long as 

 the ov,, broadly ovate, acute, concave, membranous; pedicel 

 with ov. pubescent ; fl. about 5 in. broad ; sep. and pet. 

 spreading, 5-veined, tips rounded, dorsal sep. oval, lateral 

 rather larger; pet. as long as the sep., but broader, inserted 

 by a broad base on the foot of the column ; lip sessile on the 

 foot of the column, shorter than the sep., transversely oblong 

 (when spread out) with rounded sides, base shortly saccate, 

 sac conical, disk pubescent, with a thick scurfy obcordate 

 callus at the broad sinus; pollinia 2, globose, sulcate, strap 

 elongate cuneiform; fr. spreading, ^-i in., sessile, sausage- 

 shaped, terete, ribs slender. 



Moist region, 1000-3000 ft.; apparently rare, on branches of trees : 

 Peradeniya Gardens, frequent ; Wattegodde, Hantane. Fl. March ; sep. 

 and pet. pale pink, lip yellowish, with minute red dots. 



Also in S. India. 



2. S. vlrldlflorus, Hk.f. in Fl. B. Ind. vi. 38 (1890). 

 Aerides viridijlorum, Thw. Enum. 430. C. P. 3835, 4016. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vi. 38. 



Stem very short ; roots long, stout, flexuous ; 1. 3-6, sessile, 

 2-3 by f in., all facing one way, falcately oblong or ovate, 

 subacute, tip obliquely notched or rounded, veinless, base 

 very shortly sheathing; ped. short, stout, ascending from near 

 the base of the stem, with 2-3 short broad sheaths, spike 

 4-8-fld. ; bracts much shorter than the ov., broadly ovate, 

 obtuse, membranous, ov. \-^ in.; fl. nearly \ in. across the 

 sep. ; sep. and pet. with rounded tips, dorsal sep. broadly oval, 

 3-veined, lateral much larger, adnatc by a very broad base to 

 the long foot of the column, 3-5 veined ; pet. as long as the 

 dorsal sep., linear-oblong, i-veined; lip long-clawed, jointed 

 on the foot of the column, carrying at the end of the claw a 

 deep spur-like sac rounded at the base, and 2 oblong lobes, 

 one on each side of the mouth of the sac, and with a marginal 

 carunclcd callus between them (in other words, claw ending in 

 a semilunar limb with rounded cusps, a deep sac in the disk, 



