Saccolabuim.l OvcJlidecS. 1 95 



32. SACCOZ.ABZUBX, Bl. 



Epiphytes of various habit; stem usually simple, pseudo- 

 bulb o; 1. various, semi-terete, or lorate and keeled, articulate 

 on a short sheath; fl. minute or small, racemose or panicled 

 on a leaf-opposed ped.; sep. and pet. subsimilar, inserted with 

 the lip on the base of the column; lip a sac or spur with 

 small lobes, not septate within, but with sometimes a large 

 scale or callus within it below the column ; column short, 

 stout, foot o; anth. i- or imperfectly 2-celled; pollinia 2, 

 entire or bipartite, waxy, strap broad or narrow, gland large. 

 Sp. about 60; 47 in FL B. Ind. 



L. semi-terete or filiform, 



Fl. in slender panicles I. S. NIVEUM. 



Fl. in short racemes 2. S. FILIFORME. 



L. flat or channelled. 

 Lip spurred. 

 L. 5-4 in. long. 



Raceme slender, many-fld 3. S. GRACILE. 



Raceme short. 



Stem stout 4. S. brevifolium. 



Stem slender 5. S. ROSEUM. 



L. 7-9 in. long 6. S. OCHRACEUM. 



Lip saccate. 



Mid lobe of lip fimbriate . . . .7. S. ACAULE. 



Mid lobe of lip entire. 



L. 6-12 in. long 8. S. LONGI FOLIUM. 



L. 4-6 in. long 9. S. WiGHTIANUM. 



I, S. niveum, Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 224 (1833). 

 Thw. Enum. 304. C. P. 2340. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vi. 55. 



Stem 5-6 in., as thick as a goose-quill curved, clothed 

 below with sheaths; internodes very short; 1. 2-4 by \-\ in., 

 distichous, spreading and recurved, linear, fleshy, concave, 

 dorsally rounded, tip notched, speckled with red ; panicle 

 4-5 in., leaf- opposed, ped. short and rhachis green, branches 

 few, 2-4 in., spreading, spiciform, bracts minute, acute, brown ; 

 fl. about yV in. long, resupinate, dorsal sep. broadly oblong, 

 subacute, i -veined, lateral dorsally thickened; pet. narrower, 

 cuneate-oblong; lip longer than the sep., obtusely 3-lobed, 

 saccately spurred, side lobes narrow, rounded, mid lobe 

 spathulate, fleshy, concave, spur shorter than the lip; anth. 

 hemispheric, pollinia 4, oblong, 2 much smaller, strap short, 

 broad, flat, gland very large; fr. \-\ in., clavate or subglobose, 

 pedicelled, spreading and decurved. 



Montane zone, 3-6000 ft., on trees; rather common. Fl. July, Sept., 

 Oct.; white. 

 Endemic. 



