Saccolabium.'] OvchldeCB. K^'J 



fld., ped and rhachis slender, bracts very minute; fl. \ in. 

 long; sep. and pet. subequal, incurved, orbicular-ovate; lip 

 a nearly straight laterally compressed obtuse spur, three times 

 as long as the sep., side lobes o, mid lobe a minute tooth ; 

 anth. depressed, cuspidate in front, pollinia globose, purple, 

 strap very slender, gland large, oblong, bifid. 



Forests throughout montane zone; common. Fl. Feb.-April, Sept.; 

 deep purple-red, the lip yellow at the upper part, variable in the length 

 and thickness of the leaves. A form with the fl. greenish -white 

 {S. viresccns^ Gardn. MSS.) is frequent. 



Endemic. 



5. S. roseum, Lindl. Geyi. and Sp. Orch. 225 (1833). 

 Sarcaiithiis IVa/ken'amis, Wight, Ic. v. i, 11. S. lValkenanu7n,'R.chb. 



f. in Walp. Ann. vi. 887. Thw. Enum. 304. C. P. 489. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vi. 58. Wight, Ic. t. 1686 (poor). 



Stem 6-'^ in., as thick as a pigeon's quill to a crow's quill, 

 curved; internodes \ in.; roots copious, long, slender; 1. 2-3 

 by 8~i i^-' narrowly linear, flat, recurved, tip unequally 

 notched, thickly fleshy, channelled along the centre; racemes 

 i-i^ in., ped. very short and rhachis slender, simple; bracts 

 minute; pedicel with ov. yV i". ; fl. \ in. long; sep. ovate-oblong, 

 obtuse, I -veined; pet. shorter, orbicular-oblong, i -veined; lip 

 a large incurved laterally compressed spur, twice as long 

 as the Sep., rounded at the tip, side lobes o, mid lobe a minute 

 tooth; anth. depressed, cuspidate in front, pollinia 2, globose, 

 purple, strap short, slender, gland large, oblong; fr. \-\ in., 

 oblong or subpyriform, straight or curved, pedicel slender. 



Forests of montane zone up to 6000 ft.; common. Fl. Sept.-Dec. ; 

 pale purple, the tip of the lip green. 

 Endemic. 



6. S. ochraceum, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. xxviii. Misc. 2 (1842). 

 S. lineolatum, Thw. Enum. 304. C. P. 2741. 



Cleisostoma maadosuvi, Benth. in Gen. PI. iii. 581 ; Trim. Syst. Cat. 

 Ceyl. 90 (non Lindl.). 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 62. Ann. Bot. Gard. Calcutt. viii. t. 291. 



Stem 1-2 ft, stout, swollen upwards, internodes ^-i in. ; 

 roots long, vermiform; 1. distichous, 7-9 by i-\\ in., lorate, 

 straight or recurved, keeled, thickly coriaceous, rather deeply 

 2-lobed; panicle as long as the 1. or longer, leaf-opposed, 

 branches very short, rarely \ in. long, spiciform, green, 2-5-fld. ; 

 bracts minute, brown; pedicel with ov. \ in.; fl. f in. broad; 

 sep. and pet. subequal, obovate-oblong, spreading, tips rounded ; 

 lip spurred, side lobes short, recurved, mid lobe broadly ovate, 

 with a fleshy tooth on each side of the base, tip rounded, spur 

 shorter than the sep., nearly straight, stout, obtuse; anth. 



