■Satyrit(m:\ OrckideCS. 237 



Among dead leaves in shady forests of lower montane zone, 3-5000 ft.; 

 rather common. Also on summit of Ritigala N. C. Prov. at 2500 ft. 

 FI. April and May, September ; pale dead pink, lip yellow. 



Also in S. Indian Mts. 



Wight's figure was made from a drawing by Mrs. Walker. 



The above description of the flower, the very puzzling structure of 

 which cannot be determined from dried specimens, is from a note by 

 Dr. Trimen. I have to observe respecting it that, according to the 

 rather rude figure in Wight's Icones, the "minute yellow papillae" 

 would appear to be the pollinia, which consist of two rows of cuneiform 

 grains' secund on a rhachis with a curved caudicle and very small gland. 

 The plant wants further study of living specimens. — J. D. H. 



60. SATVRZVm, Sw. 



Terrestrial herbs, with oblong tubers and erect leafy stems ; 

 1. sheathing; fl. spicate, resupinate, ov. not twisted; sep. and 

 pet. spreading or deflexed; lip superior, sessile on the base of 

 the column, erect, broad, hooded, with 2 dorsal reflexed spurs ; 

 column arched, terete; stigma terminal, forming a 2-lipped 

 body with the rostellum ; anth. short, cells lateral, subparallel, 

 tubes short, pollinia 2, clavate, bipartite, granular, caudicles 

 short, recurved, glands orbicular; staminodes hemispheric. — 

 Sp. about 60 ; i in Fl. B. Ind. 



S. nepalense, Don, Prod. FL Nep. 26 (1825). 



Lindl. Gen. and Sp. PL 340, and in Journ. Linn. Sec. iii. 44. Thw. 

 Enum. 308. C. P. 227. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 168. Wight, Ic. t. 929. Bot. Mag. t. 6625. Ann. Bot. 

 Gard. Calcutt. viii. t. 444. 



Stem with the spike 6-18 in., stout, leafy below, many- 

 sheathed above; tubers oblong; 1. 4-10 by 2-4 in., oblong to 

 linear-oblong or ovate-lanceolate, acute, rather thick, base 

 sheathing, very strongly many-ribbed beneath; spike 1-6 in., 

 dense- or lax fid. ; bracts much longer than the fl., oblong or 

 lanceolate, erect, spreading, or at length recurved; ov. I. in. 

 long, turgid; fl. about \ in. broad ; sep. small, decurved, dorsal 

 linear-oblong, obtuse, lateral much longer, ovate-oblong, 

 obtuse; pet. much smaller than the dorsal sep., oblong, obtuse, 

 recurved; lip hemispheric, with reflected margins, dorsally 

 obtusely keeled, and bearing 2 parallel spurs that are 

 deflected along the ov. ; column contracted and terete towards 

 the base ; anth. large, pollinia clavate, grains large, caudicles 

 short, slender, glands large, rostellum broad, confluent with 

 the broad concave stigma; fr. fusiform, erect. 



In grass on patana land, montane zone above 40C0 ft.; very common 

 Fl. Sept.-January ; bright rose-pink, rarely paler or white, very sweet- 

 scented. 



