CXXV. OECHIDACEJ!:, 699 



1-1| in. long, acutely 3-augled and 6-ribbed, on a short stout pedicel. 

 Y\. B. I. V. 6, p. 32 ; King & Pantling, in Ann. Roy. Bot, Gard. Calc. 

 V. 8 (1898) p. 213, t. 284 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 4, p. 187 ; Woodr. in Journ. 

 Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 519 ; Prain, Bang. PL p. 1020. Saccolabium 

 guttatum, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. (1828) 7308; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 263; 

 Wight, Icon, tt. 1745-46 ; Bot. Mag. t. 4108. brides retusum, S\v. 

 in Schrad. Journ. v. 2 (1799) p. 233; Grab. Cat. p. 204.— Flowers : 

 May. 



Konkan: Stocl'sl, Law], Baizell], Woodrow; Sfilsette, Dahcll ^- Gibson. Kanaka: 

 Kala naclcli, Eitchiel — Distrib. India (Sikkim ; base of Himalaya, Gharwal to Bhotan, 

 Assam, Kliasia Hills, Birma, W. Peninsula); Ceylon, Malayan Archipelago. 



18. BRIDES, Lour. 



Epiphytic herbs with leafly stems ; pseudobulbs 0. Leaves coriaceous, 

 linear or terete. Flowers usually numerous and showy, in dense or lax, 

 decurved racemes, sometimes solitary ; floral bracts minute. Sepals 

 broad, spreading ; lateral sepals adnate to the base or foot of the column. 

 Petals like the sepals. Lip adnate to the column, spurred ; side lobes 

 large, or small or ; midlobe longer than the side lobes or smaller and 

 incurved between them. Column short with a short or long foot ; 

 anther 2-celled, with or without a beak ; pollinia 2, globose, sulcate ; 

 caudicle long or short ; gland various. — Disteib. Species about 50, 

 Eastern Asiatic. 



Lip horizontal or inflexed. 



Flowers almost inodorous ; lateral sepals | in. long, obovate ; 

 petals rose-colored, speckled with dots of a deeper color ; 



midlobe of lip quadrate-oblong 1 . M. maculosiim. 



Flowers sweetly fragrant ; lateral sepals f in. long, obliquely 

 oblong ; petals pinkish-white, not speckled ; midlobe of lip 



ovate 2. M. crispum. 



Lip deflexed ; lateral sepals ^ in. long, elliptic or suborbicular. 3. ^. radicosum. 



1. jSSrides maculosum, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. (1845) t. 58. Stems 

 1-3 in. long, stout, with many sheaths and numerous long tough roots 

 as thick as a goose-quill, which are dry and shrivelled in the hot and 

 cold seasons, thickening and becoming succulent during the rainy season. 

 Leaves 6-9 by g-g in., linear-oblong, channelled, unequally 2-lobed at 

 the apex. Flowers almost inodorous, in racemes 4-10 in. long, which 

 are usually paniculately branched; peduncles green, l|-3 in. long, with 

 a few appressed acute sheaths ; pedicels with ovary §-§ in. long, rose- 

 colored ; bracts minute, ovate, acute. Sepals pale rose-colored ; 

 lateral sepals | in. long or a little longer, nearly as broad as long, 

 obovate, sometimes slightly apiculate, somewhat gibbous, nerved ; dorsal 

 sepal as long as the lateral, rather narrower, obovate. Petals as long as 

 the sepals, 1- in. broad, oblong, obtuse, slightly gibbous, rose-colored, 

 speckled with minute dots of a deeper color. Lip exceeding | in. long 

 and nearly \ in. broad ; side lobes rounded, crenulate ; midlobe \ in. 

 long and as broad as long, quadrate-oblong, rounded and retuse at the 

 apex, of a dark rose-color in the centre, shaded off towards the slightly 

 crisped margins ; spur rather large, incurved like a hook. Capsules |-1 

 in. long, ellipsoid or obovoid, with 3 deep acute ribs. Fl. B. I. v. 6, 

 p. 45 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 266 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 



