CXXV, ORCHIDACEiE. 697 



Cymhidium ehurneum,'LmA\. in Bot. Eeg. (1847) t. 67. An epiphyte, 

 a native of Nepal, Sikkim, and the Khasia Mountains, sometimes grown 

 in conservatories. It has large linear-lanceolate leaves 12-24 by g— | in., 

 large flowers with ivory-white sepals, the petals and lip stained with 

 pale yellow. I'l. B. I. v. 6, p. 11 ; Woodr. Q-ard. in Ind. ed. 5, p. 472. 



16. SARCOCHILUS, Br. 



Epiphytic herbs ; stem very short or ; pseudobulbs 0, Leaves 

 oblong, coriaceous, usually flat. Flowers small, in erect or pendulous 

 racemes. Sepals subequal, spreading ; lateral sepals more or less adnate 

 to the foot of the column. Petals like the sepals. Lip often almost 

 shoe-shaped, adnate to the produced foot of the column, usually spurred ; 

 side lobes erect, subpetaloid or tooth-like ; midlobe fleshy, various ; spur 

 erect or parallel to the blade of the lip. Column short, produced into a 

 more or less elongated foot ; rostellum short ; poUinia "2. entire or 

 sulcate ; caudicle linear ; gland large. — Distrib. East Indies, Malay 

 Archipelago, South Sea Islands and Australia ; species about 30. 



A difficult genus which i-equires revision. Ridley [Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 V. 32 (1896) p. 348] proposes to limit it to species with a long foot to 

 the column, a porrect spur and a small often fleshy epichile, whereas 

 King and Bantling [Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Calc. v. 8 (1898) p. 206] 

 characterize the genus as spurless. Pfitzer [Eugl. & Prantl, Pflanzenf. 

 V. 2, part 6 (1889) p. 218] makes the lip spurred or almost shoe-shaped 

 and includes Dalzell's Micropera in the genus. 



Leaves less than 3 in. long ; racemes shorter than the leaves ... 1. S. viridiflorus. 

 Leaves 4-7 in. long ; racemes much longer than the leaves 2. S. maculatus. 



Mr. Rolfe of the Kew Herbarium, whose knowledge of orchids is both varied and 

 extensive, is of opinion that the two species named in the key above should be placed 

 under Sarcochilus and not under Saccolabium. 



1. Sarcochilus viridiflorus, T. Cooke (not of Hook. f. in PI. B. I. 



V. 6, p. 38). A small plant 3-4 in. high, stemless ; roots long. Leaves 

 1|-2| by 5-g in., flat, linear-oblong, 2-lobed at the apex. Plowers in 

 few-flowered racemes scarcely reaclaing 1 in. long ; bracts y^^- in. long, 

 broadly ovate, obtuse. Sepals greenish-white ; lateral sepals f by -jlg- in., 

 obovate, obtuse, veined ; dorsal sepal very slightly longer than the lateral 

 ones, spathulate, rounded at the apex. Petals as long as the sepals, ^ in. 

 broad, obovate, obtuse, greenish-white. Lip rather more tlian i in. 

 long ; side lobes erect, broadly triangular, rounded at the apex ; midlobe 

 ■J— 1 in. long by ^ in. broad, membranous, usually 3-lobed, the central 

 lobe triangular, acute, the lateral lobes obtuse ; spur ^ in. long, conical, 

 obtuse, pointing forward, parallel to the blade of the lip. Saccolabium 

 viridiflorum, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 3 (1858) p. 36 ; Hook. f. Fl. 

 B. I. V. 6, p. 63. Micropera viridiflora, Dalz. in Kew Journ. Bot. v. 3 

 (1851) p. 282. 



Konkan: Latr \, Balzcll, 26 1 Deccan : Mabableshwar, Coo-ie !; Koina Valley below 

 Mahableshwar, Cooke ! Kanaka : Usheli, Ritchie, 14:26 ! ; Ohandwar, Ritchie, 1426 ! 

 — DiSTRiB. India (W. Peninsula). 



The specific name viridiflora was inaugurated by Dalzell in 1851, and is therefore 

 prior to the same specific name given by Thwaites [Enum. (1864) p. 430] to Mrides 

 viridiflorum, from which Sir Joseph Hooker (Fl. B. 1. v. 6, p. 38) has derived the 

 specific name of Sarcochilus viridiflorus. A new specific name must therefore be found 

 for that plant. 



