CXXV. ORCHID ACE. H. 705 



Yl B. I. V. 6, p. 78 ; Eolfe, in Hook. Icon. PI. v. 27 (1901) t. 2687.— 

 Plowers : June-Sept. 



Eare. Kanaka: Sirsi-Kumpta road (N. Kanara), Woodrow l—DiSTme. India (W. 

 Peninsula). 



23. ACAMPE, Lindl. 



Epiphytic herbs ; stem usually very long and stout. Leaves thickly 

 coriaceous, keeled, distichous, oblique at the apex. Flowers corymbose, 

 in large spreading panicles, fleshy, brittle, yellow, spotted; peduncles 

 short, rigid, lateral ; bracts broad, short, persistent. Sepals fleshy, 

 brittle, flat ; lateral sepals aduate to the usually small spur of the lip ; 

 dorsal sepal often slightly larger than the lateral ones. Petals like the 

 sepals, straight. Lip fleshy, bent upwards, saccate or spurred, adnate 

 to the footless column, often tuberculate and pubescent within the sac. 

 Column short, thick, without a foot ; anthers ovate, 2-celled ; pollinia 2, 

 waxy, globose ; caudicle slender, linear, longer than the pollinia ; gland 

 small, subrotund. — Distbib. Tropical Asia ; species 8 or 9. 



The genus was founded by Lindley in 1853 [Fol. Orchid. (Acampe)]. The ' Flora of 

 British India' places it as a section {Acampe) under Saccolabmm, but the genus seems 

 sufficiently well defined to have independent rank accorded to it. Ridley remarks 

 [Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 32 (1896) p. 346] that there seems no good reason wiiy the genus 

 should be merged in Saccolahium. Pfitzer [Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenf. v. 2, part 6 (1889) 

 p. 213] keeps the genus distinct and Mr. Eolfe of the Kew Herbarium is also in 

 favor of so maintaining it. 



1. Acampe Wightiana, Lindl. Fol. Orchid. (1853) p. 2 (Acam2Je). 

 Stem 12-18 in. long, as thick as the little finger, clothed with sheaths 

 of fallen leaves ; interuodes short ; roots long, very stout. Leaves 4-8 

 by f-1 J in., ligulate, thickly coriaceous, flat, irregularly 2-lobed at the 

 apex, the lobes rounded, usually with an acute sinus. Flowers corym- 

 bose, in supra-axillary panicles 1|-2| in. long including the peduncle; 

 peduncle about as long as the panicle, stout, with many cupular sheaths; 

 bracts short, broadly ovate, persistent ; pedicels with ovary i-i in. long. 

 Sepals yellow, barred with red ; lateral sepals f by i in., elliptic-oblong, 

 obtuse ; dorsal sepal as long and as broad as the lateral ones, obovate- 

 oblong, obtuse. Petals yellow, barred with red, ^ by -^^ in., obovate, 

 obtuse. Lip less than ^ in. long, M'hite, with a few transverse red 

 stripes ; side lobes small, rounded ; midlobe ^ in. long, ovate, obtuse, 

 fleshy ; spur a short rounded sac. Pollinia 2, large, globose ; caudicle 

 short ; gland small. Capsules l|-3 in. long, sessile or nearly so, clavate, 

 or oblong, or fusiform, with many ribs. Acamjie excavata, Lindl. Pol. 

 Orchid. (1853) p. 3 {Acampe). Saccolabium Wirjhtianum, Hook. f. PI. 

 B.Lv. 6(1890) p. 62; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) 

 p. 519; Trim. PI. Ceyl. v. 4, p. 199. Saccolabium proimorsum, Hook. f. 

 PI. B. I. V. 6 (1890) p. 52 ; Prain, Beng. PI. p. 1022. S. papillosum, 

 Dalz. & Gibs. Bo. PI. (1861) p. 264 (not of Lindl.). vErides prcemorsum, 

 Grab. Cat. p. 204 {not of Willd.). Vanda Wightiana, Lindl. ex "Wight, 

 Icon. V. 5, part 1 (1852) p. 9, t. 1670.— Plowers : May. 



Konkan: Graham, Stocks \, Law\, Woodrow, 5!; Indapiir (S. Konkan), Graham. 

 S.M. Country: Eelgaum, Eitchie, 716 !— Distrib. India (Bengal, W. PeninsLda); 

 Ceylon. 



I cannot separate Acampe excavaia, Lindl., from this. The material in Herb. Kew. 

 is scanty and an examination of fresh specimens much to be desired. 



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