212 ORC HILDACL A. | SACCOLABIUM. 
18. SACCOLABIUM, Blume; Fl. Brit. Ind. vi, 54. 
Epiphytes, without pseudobulbs. Leaves coriaceous, flat or 
-conduplicate, often keeled. Flowers usually small, in leaf—opposed 
‘or supra-axillary racemes corymbs umbels or panicles ; floral 
bracts minute. Sepals and petals adnate to the column, subequal, 
spreading or reflexed. Lip sessile on the footless column, forming 
a cylindric or saccate spur ; lateral lobes small or none ; terminal one 
smail, often hairy. Amnther 1- or imperfectly 2-celled ; pollinia 2, 
entire or bipartite.—Species 50, in E. Asia. 
Spur cylindric, straight . p : ; . 1. S. papillosum. 
‘Spur short, at right angles to the ovary, widely 
Saccate :-— 
Ap2x of leaves not setulose ; terminal lobe of 
lip papillose-hairy . N : . 2. 8. calceolare. 
~ Apex of leaves setulose ; eseuiiagt lobe of lip 
fleshy and glabrous . , : : . 3. S. distichum. 
1.8. papillosum, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1552 (excl. syn.); F. B. 
I. vi, 63; K. & P. Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Calc. viii, 219, t. 290 ; Duthie 
ed. ix, part 2, 147; Prain Beng. Pl. 1022. 
Stems 2-3 ft., stout, erect, clustered, bearing many nearly horizontal 
leaves. Leaves coriaceous, 3-4 in. long, conduplicate, curved ; apex 
truncate or deeply notched. Peduncle 1-2 in. long, leaf-opposed, about 
4 in. long, bearing a subcorymbose 4-8-flowered raceme. Flowers 
4 in. in. diam. ; bracts triangular. Sepals and petals yellow barred and 
blotched with brown. Sepals subequal, oblong, subacute, spreading. 
Petals narrower than sepals, subspathulate. Lip longer than sepals, 
adnate to the base of the column; side-lobes none; terminal lobe 
decurved, ovate-oblong, obtuse, crenate ; upper surface transversely 
rugulose, white with transverse purple bars. Spur cylindric, 
straight, half as long as the ovary and parallel to it, cylindric or slightly 
tapering, pale-yellow,. hairy within. Columnshort. Anther broadly 
conical. Pollinia subovoid, deeply bipartite; caudicle slender, 
tapering to the small oblong gland. Capsule 1} in. long, fusiform, 
ridged. — 
Dehra Dun, in swamps (Gamble, Mackinnon). Distris.: Outer 
ranges of Himalaya in Garhwal and Kumaon and eastwards to Sikkim ; 
also in Assam, Bengal, Circars and Burma. 
