698 CXXT. ORCHIDACE.'E. 



2. Sarcochilus maculatus, Bentli. in Benth. Sf Hooh. f. Gen. PI. 

 V. 3 (1883) p. 575. Almost steniless. Leaves 4-7 by l|-lf in., linear- 

 oblong, narrowed towards the base, obliquely emargiuate at the apex, 

 riowers in erect elongate simple racemes much longer than the leaves, 

 many-flowered from the base ; pedicels very short ; bracts Jq- in. long, 

 ovate, acute. ISepals yellow with a purple spot in the centre {DaJzell) ; 

 lateral sepals ^hj \ in., obovate ; dorsal sepal very slightly longer than 

 the lateral ones, obovate. Petals yellow with a purple spot in the centre 

 (Dalzell), as long as the dorsal sepal, ^ in. wide. Lip painted with white 

 and rose-color {Dalzell) ; side lobes Jq in. long, erect, acute from a 

 triangular base; midlobe § by ^ in., resembling (as described by Dalzell) 

 a shoe with the front leather turned backward and like a side-saddle, 

 with membranous margins, 3-lobed at the apex, the central lobe rounded ; 

 spur short, obtuse, continuous with the foot of the column, pointing 

 forwards, hairy within. Capsules 1-^ in. long, nearly sessile, ellipsoid, 

 6-ribbed. Saccolabium maculatum, Hook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 6 (1890) p. 64 ; 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 519. Micropera maculata, 

 Dalz. in Kew Journ. Bot. v. 3 (1851) p. 282; Lindl. in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. V. 3 (1858) p. 38 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 263.— Flowers : May. 



Konkan: Western Ghats, Dalzelll Deccan : Phonda Ghat, Ritchie, 1427! 

 Kanaka : 6 miles west of Divimana, Wooclrow. — Distrib. India (W. Peninsula). 



17. RHYNCHOSTYLIS, Blume. 



Epiphytic herbs without pseudobulbs ; stem elongate, stout, leafy. 

 Leaves very coriaceous, linear-oblong, truncately or bluntly 2-lobed at 

 the apex. Flowers in long pendulous many-flowered cylindric racemes, 

 showy. Sepals spreading, broad, obtvise. Petals narrower than the 

 sepals. Lip adnate to the short foot of the column, the hypochile form- 

 ing a deep wide pubescent sac without side lobes, the epichile obovate, 

 acute, concave, with erect margins. Column short, stout, dilated at the 

 base, and with a very short foot ; stigma small ; anther terminal, 

 rounded ; pollinia 2, elliptic, attached by a slender long caudicle to a 

 small oblong gland. — Disteib. Species 2 or 3, Indian and Malayan. 



1. Rhynchostylis retusa, Blume, Bijdr, (1825) p. 286, t. 49. 

 Stems 3-8 in. long, as thick as the middle finger, clothed with the 

 sheaths of decayed leaves, emitting many stout branching roots 6-10 in. 

 long and as thick as a swan's quill ; internodes short. Leaves 6-18 by 

 ^-1| in., loriform, spreading and recurved, denticulate-truncate, obliquely 

 praemorse or bluntly unequally 2-lobed at the apex, one lobe truncate, 

 the other rounded. Flowers handsome, in dense cylindric racemes which 

 are longer than the leaves, pale pink dotted with deeper colored spots, 

 the lip deeper pink ; peduncles short, with a few small scattered sheatlis ; 

 bracts -iV"8 ^^' ■'o^S' ovate, acute, persistent ; pedicels with ovary ^-k in. 

 long. Sepals veined; lateral sepals 3 by ^ in., somewhat obliquely 

 obovate-orbicular ; dorsal sepal r| by }r in., obovate, rounded at the apex. 

 Petals as long as the sepals, g in. wide, elliptic-oblong, subobtuse. Lip 

 dark pink, clawed, with a saccate flattened spur ijiypocliilc) 5 in. deep, 

 the portion in front of the spur {epichile) g in. long, the basal part of 

 which is oblong or cuneate-oblong, ,-Ly in. wide, the apical part widening 

 into a broad rounded retuse midlobe | in. wide. Capsules clavate, 



