iS6 Orchidea. [SarcochHus. 



short foot of the column, 5-veined; pet. linear-oblong, obtuse, 

 3-veined; lip very shortly clawed, sessile on the foot of the 

 column, shorter than the sep., transversely oblong when spread 

 out, obscurely 3-lobed in front, with a scurfy callosity on the 

 margin in the middle, deeply saccate on the disk, sides 

 rounded, surface pubescent; sac broad, incurved, 2-lobed; 

 column with a short broad foot. 



Dry region, on branches of trees; rare. Samanturai, E. Prov., and 

 Varuniya Vilankulam, N. C. Prov. (Nevill). First collected by Mr. Nevill 

 at Samanturai in 1885. 



Fl. August; sep. and pet. pale sulphur-yellow, lip nearly white, with a 

 few orange dots and lines. Leaves and peduncle minutely dotted with 

 purple. 



Endemic. 



5. S. complanatus, Hk. f. in Fl. B. Ind. vi. 41 (1890). Epiden- 

 driim CflinpIafht/uDi, Retz. Obs. vi. 50. Liparis serra/ormis, Lindl. Gen. 

 and Sp. Orch. 2>2> (in part). Dendrocolla serraformis, Thw. Enum. 306. 

 Sarcochiliis serrceforjnis, Trim. Syst. Cat. Ceyl. 89 (non Rchb. f.). C. P. 

 3209. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 41. 



Stem 6- 1 2 in., stout, curved or tortuous, copiously rooting; 

 roots very long, simple; internodes J-| in., clothed with the 

 short leaf-sheaths; 1. 2-7 by ^-f in., loriform, coriaceous, tip 

 obtuse or unequally 2-lobed; ped. 1-3 in., stout, leaf-opposed, 

 with few short obtuse coriaceous sheaths; raceme 1-5 in., 

 flattened, pectinate with distichously imbricating oblong 

 obtuse coriaceous laterally compressed incurved bracts J in. 

 long; sep. and pet. very long, membranous, narrowed from the 

 base into caudiform tips, sep. f in. long, 5-veined, lateral 

 adnate by a broad base to the foot of the column; 

 pet. narrower, rather shorter, 3-veined; lip small, sessile, 

 jointed on the foot of the column, saccate, nearly semicircular 

 when spread out, shallowly 3-lobcd in front, side lobes sub- 

 acute, mid lobe thickened, disk with a prominent styliform 

 callus, basal sac conic ; column very short indeed, foot broad, 

 not long; anth. depressed, 2-celled, pollinia 4, in pairs, one of 

 each pair shortly oblong, the other very much smaller, closely 

 appressed to it, each attached bj' a very short caudicle to a 

 semilunar gland; fr. 2-3 in. by \ in. diam., linear, straight, 

 narrowed at both ends, very shortly pedicelled. 



Low country to 3000 ft. ; rare. Ambagamuwa Dist. ; Ratnapura ; 

 summit of Ritigala, N. C. Prov.; Kalutara. Fl. .September; pale yellow, 

 the lip nearly white, with a red blotch near the end. 



Endemic. 



'I'lie form of the inflorescence is much like that of Liparis disticlia. 

 This is (according to Fl. B. Ind.) Rpidcndrmn coniplanaini)!^ Retz. Obs. 

 Bot. vi. 50, as shown by a specimen, unfortunately not localised, in Herb. 



