214! ORCHIDACEZ. [ SaccoLaBIuM. 
} ‘ 
Garhwal, up to 6,000 ft., and eastwards to Sikkim, the Khasia Hills 
and Manipur. . 
19, CLEISOSTOMA, Blume ; included under Saccolabium in | 
Fl. Brit. Ind. vi, 59. 
Epiphytic herbs. Stems more or less elongate. Leaves coriaceous 
-or fleshy, flat or semiterete. Flowers in leaf-opposed racemes or 
panicles. Sepals adnate to the column, subequal, spreading. Petals 
like the sepals. Lip sessile on the footless column, the base with 
a large saccate or funnel-shaped spur which is sometimes dilated 
at the apex ; its opening more or less occluded by 2 calli, the pos- 
terior of which is frequently 2-fid., and also sometimes by a dorsal 
‘scale, but never septate; the lateral lobes small or obsolete ; 
apical lobe thickened, concave. Column short, thick, footless. 
Anther depressed; pollinia 2, often 2-fid.; caudicle single.— 
‘Species about 40 in. E. Trop. Asia and Australia. 
C. micranthum, K. & P. Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Calc. viii, 234, t. 
312 ; Duthie id. ix, part 2,148 ; Prain Beng. Pl. 1023. Saccolabium 
micranthum, Lindl. ; F. B. I. vi, 59. 
Stem stout, compressed, 3-8 in. long, enveloped in the leaf-sheaths. 
Leaves 24-3} ip. long., narrowly oblong, keeled, obliquely truncate, 
obtusely bifid, tapering to the shortly sheathed base. Flowering 
stem equalling or longer than' the leaves; racemes many-flowered ; 
peduncle and rhachis stout. Flowers about % in. across; bracts 
broad, blunt, much shorter than the short sessile ovary. Sepals 
and petals spreading, white with large purple spots. Sepals broadly 
ovate, obtuse. Petals smaller than the sepals, oblong. Lip fleshy, 
pink or purple, as long as the sepals. Spur addressed to and as 
long as the ovary, wide, blunt; lateral lobes of lip smal]; term- 
inal one convex, oblong, blunt, margins thin, erose ; upper surface 
smooth. Column very short and stout, with a large protuberance 
on either side of the rostellum. Anther with a long pointed beak. 
Pollinia obovoid; caudicle triangular, shallowly cordate, attached 
. to a small orbicular gland. 
‘Dehra Dun (Vicary, Mackinnon). Flowers during June and J uly. 
Distris.: Outer ranges of Trop. Himalaya in Garhwal and Kumaon, 
up to 3,000 ft., and eastwards to Sikkim, Bhutan, Assam, and on the 
Naga and Khasia Hills; also in Chota Nagpur and in Tenasserim. 
