700 CXXT. ORCHIDACE^. 



(1899) p. 519 ; Prain, Beng. PI. p. 1020. Saccolahium speciosum, Wight, 

 Icon. V. 5, part 1 (1852) p. 9, tt. 167-1-75.— Flowers : May. 



Konkan: Sfoo/cs I, Law], Dalsell, 75 I Deccan : Mahahleahwar, Cooke'., Woodrotv; 

 Pancligani, Cooke ! S. M. Country: Belgauin, west face of Clieeta Hill, Bitchie, 713 ! 

 — DisTRiB. India (Chota Nagpur (rare), W. Peninsula). 



2. .Srides crispum, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. (1828) 7319. Stem 

 4-10 in. long, very stout, clothed with sheaths of decayed leaves; roots 

 long and slender, clasping the tree closely, dry and shrivelled in the 

 dry, thickening and becoming succulent during the rainy season. Leaves 

 4-8 by I5-II ill., oblong or lorate, thickly coriaceous, unequally 2-lobed 

 at the apex, channelled, smooth, curved. Flowers sweetly fragrant, in 

 long often paniculately branched racemes 5-12 in. long ; peduncles 

 green, 4-8 in. long, with a few acute appressed sheaths ; pedicels with 

 ovary ^-f in. long, pale pink ; bracts small, ovate, acute. Sepals pinkish- 

 white ; lateral sepals g by g in., obliquely oblong, roundish, acute at the 

 apex ; dorsal sepal | by | in., obovate, obtuse, often slightly apiculate. 

 Petals I by I in., broadly obovate, pinkish-white, shaded with darker pink. 

 Lip 1 in. long, geniculately intlexed at the claw ; side lobes small, 

 oblique, straight on the lower, elliptic on the upper margin, marked with 

 pink lines ; midlobe exceeding ^ in. long, ovate, subobtuse, somewhat 

 3-lobed, with reflexed and crenulate margins, darker in color than the 

 lateral lobes, with 2 fleshy calli at the base which close the mouth of the 

 spur; spur short, incurved, its apex often concealed beneath the reflexed 

 edges of the lower lip. Column with a purple ring over each of the 

 2 pollinia. Capsules 1-1 g in. long, pyriform, deeply ribbed. PI. B. I. 

 v. 6, p. 45; Dalz. & Gibs.''p. 265; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 

 (1899) p. 519. jErides Lindleyana, Wight, Icon. v. 5 (1S52) p. 9, 

 t. 1677 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 265. — Flowers : Apr.-May. 



KoNKAN : near Vingorla, Balzcll S; Gibson ; Wari country, Balzcll ^- Gibson. 

 Deccan : Mahableshwar, very common, Cooke !, Woodroiv, H. M. Birdwood. Kanaka : 

 Usheli, Kitchie, 713 ! — Distkib. India (W. Peninsula). 



3. .Alrides radicosum, A. Rich, in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2, v. 15 

 (1841) p. 65, t. 1, fig. C. Stem lg-4 in. long, as thick as the thumb, 

 covered with sheaths of decayed leaves. Leaves coriaceous, 4-10 by 

 f-1 in., linear-oblong, unequally 2-lobed at the apex, often mottled with 

 purple. Flowers deep rose-colored, in stout racemes or panicles rarely 

 exceeding the leaves ; peduncles 2-3 in. long, stout ; bracts y\, in. long, 

 ovate, acute ; pedicels with ovary |-g in. long. Sepals 5-nerved ; 

 lateral sepals ^ in. long and as broad as long, broadly elliptic or sub- 

 orbicular; dorsal sepal g by ^ in., elliptic, obtuse. Petals as long as 

 and slightly narrower than the lateral sepals, broadly elliptic, obtuse, 

 5-nerved. Lip deflexed, longer than the sepals ; side lobes minute ; 

 midlobe ovate ; disk with 2 large basal calli ; spur cylindric, obtuse, in- 

 curved. Anther beaked ; caudicle of the pollinia short, subtriangular ; 

 gland large. Fl. B. 1. v. 6, j). 46 ; AV'oodr. in Journ. Jioinb. Nat. v. 12 

 (1899) p. 519. ISaccolahium Wlghtianum, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7303 in 

 part {not of Dalzell & Gibson); Wight, Icon. t. 917. Saccolahium 

 rubrum, AVight, Icon. v. 5, part 1 (1852) p. 9, t. 1673 {not of Lindl.) ; 

 Dalz. & Gibs. p. 264. — Flowers : May. 



KoNKAN : StdBotle, Balzell ^- Gibson. Deccan: Maliahlcsliwar, irnorfrow). Xanara : 

 near Konapa on the Kala naddi, liiUhir, 715! — Distrib. India (\V. IViiinbula). 



