706 CXXV. ORCHIDACE.i;. 



24. SARCANTHUS, Lindl. 



Epiphytic herbs ; stems usually elongate ; pseudobulbs 0. Leaves 

 fleshy, terete or flat. Flowers small, in extra-axillary racemes or 

 panicles : bracts small. Sepals subequal, all spreading or reflexed, or 

 the dorsal concave or connivent over the column. Petals rather smaller 

 than the sepals, spreading. Lip adnate to the base of the column or to 

 its foot ; base with an infundibuliform spur sometimes dilated at the . 

 apex, divided by a longitudinal septum reaching from the base to about 

 half-way up or higher, but not reaching the mouth, with a callus both on 

 the upper and lower walls ; side lobes small, more or less triangular and 

 acute ; midlobe small, triangular or hastate. Column short, stout, often 

 with a foot as long as or longer than itself ; anther depressed ; pollinia 2, 

 bifld. — DiSTRiB. Eastern Tropical Asia ; species about 35. 



1. Sarcanthus peduncularis, Dcdz. in Keiv Journ. Bot. v. 3 (1851) 

 p. 343. Stem 10-12 in. long, about as thick as a duT^k's quill, pendulous, 

 leafy. Leaves coriaceous, 4-6 by \ in., linear, obtusely acuminate, 

 narrowed at the base, straight or falcately recurved, the sheaths ribbed. 

 Flowers deflexed, in racemes which are shorter than the leaves ; bracts 

 minute, ovate, acute, persistent ; pedicel with ovary ^ in. long. Sepals 

 yellow with red margins ; lateral sepals i by -^-^ in., elliptic, obtuse ; 

 dorsal sepal slightly longer and slightly narrower than the lateral ones, 

 spathulate-oblong. Petals -1- by -^^ in., spathulate, colored like the sepals. 

 Lip white or yellowish, with violet side lobes, i in. long; side lobes 

 triangular, acute, small ; midlobe incurved, acute ; spur yV— g- ii^- long, 

 subcylindric or conical, septate almost to the mouth. Column short ; 

 anther with a long subulate beak ; pollinia 2-partite ; caudicle slender ; 

 glaud small. Capsules f-| in. long, fusiform or oblong, sessile or nearly 

 so. Fl. B. I. v. 6, p. 67 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 264 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 4, 

 p. 200. Sarcantlms paucijlorus, Wight, Icon. v. 5 (1852) part 1, p. 20, 

 t. 1747 (bad). — Flowers : July-Aug. 



Konkan: Stocks, ^f>\. Law \; near the village of Vii-di in Wari country, Dalzelll 

 Kanaka: Kala nacldi, ^/Vc^/e, 1430! — Disthib. India (W. reninsula) ; Ceylon. 



25. POGONIA, Juss. 

 Terrestrial, tuberous-rooted, 1-leaved herbs ; tuber giving off below 

 the surface of the ground 2 or 3 stolons, each producing at its tip a 

 tuber smaller than that of the parent. Leaf broadly cordate or orbicular, 

 strongly plicate, from the same tuber as the flowers, but usually subsequent 

 to the appearance of the flowering scape, occasionally contemporaneous 

 with the flowers. Flowers solitary, or few, or several, racemose, often 

 pendulous on scapes arising from the tuber. Sepals subequal, narrow, 

 connivent or spreading. Petals like the sepals. Lip adnate to the base 

 of the column, sometimes slightly saccate at the base, rather narrow, 

 the lower portion convolute round the column ; side lobes small or ; 

 midlobe flat, ovate or orbicular, entire or fimbriate. Column elongate, 

 clavate upwards ; stigma anticous, oblong or orbicular ; anther more or 

 less incumbent, substipitate ; pollinia 2 or 4, elongate, powdery, often 

 coherent, without caudicle or gland. — Distrib. Species about 60, Asiatic, 

 American, and African. 



Scapes l-3-(Iowered ; bracts •^^ in. long; lip withont side lobes ... 1. P. plicafa. 

 Scapes many-flowered; bracts ^ in. long; lip with obtuse side lobes. 2. P. carinata. 



