36 Cxtviil. ORCHID:^. (J. t). Hooker.) [Sartochilus. 



claw of lip spotted with purple, lateral lobes purple, midlobe cream-cold., spur speckled 

 with purple; column rather short ; anther hardly beaked, yellow, pollinia subglobose, 

 strap short. Described from a drawing in the Calcutta Gardens. Evidently allied 

 to S. aureus in the form of the lip, but the whole plant is much smaller. The peduncle 

 is clavate, the sepals and petals much smaller and narrower, and as well as the lip 

 differently coloured. Scortechini's drawing is of a young plant. 



Sect. IV. MICK.OPERA, Lindl. (gen.). (See p. 33.) 

 8. S. purpureus* jBenth.mss.; raceme peduncledlax-fld., flowers pale 



purple, lip strongly laterally compressed hatchet-shaped, side lobes 0, sac 



with a strong included recurved spine under the tip. Micropera pallida, 



Wall. Cat. 7321 (in part). Camarotis purpurea, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7329 ; 



Gen. 8f Sp. Orchid. 219 ; Sert. Orchid, t. 19; in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 37 ; 



Paxt. Mag. Bot. vii. t. 25. C. rostrata, Reichb.f. in Walp. Ann. vi. 881. 



brides rostratum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 474. 



KHASIA MTS., near Churra. SILHET and CHITTAGONG, Roxburgh, Wallich., &c. 

 Stem 2-3 ft., as thick as a goose-quill. Leaves 3-4 by fc in., obtusely 2-lobed, 



toothed or notched. Racemes equalling or exceeding the leaves, laxly many-fld. ; 



bracts short, broad ; flowers -f in. diam. ; sepals and rather smaller petals very 



obtuse; beak of column turned on one side, flexuous. Capsule 1^-2 in. long, 



slender. 



9. S. Roxburgh!!* HooJc.f.; raceme long-peduncled decurved rather 

 dense, flowers cream-white, lip slipper-shaped laterally compressed, side 

 lobes large rounded, sac with an exserted spine under the tip. Micropera 

 pallida, Lindl. in Sot. Beg. under t. 1522 ; in Wall. Cat. 7321 (in part)\ 

 Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 219. Camarotis pallida, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 

 37. ^Elides pallidum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 475 (not of Lindley). 



BENGAL; at Comilla, Clarice. CHITTAOONG, Roxburgh, &c. TENASSEKIM ; at 

 Mergui, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 5241), Heifer (K. D. 525 1). 



Stem 2-3 ft. Leaves 2-3 by -^ in., tip rounded, notched. Peduncle with raceme 

 longer than the leaves ; bracts persistent ; flowers many, i in. diam. ; sepals and petals 

 as in M. purpurea, but nearly white ; beak of column straight. The Micropera 

 pallida of Wallich's Herb, in Linn. Soc. consists of one sheet of S. purpurea, one 

 of Saccolab. ramosum, and one of Sarcanthus secundus ; but there are specimens of 

 pallida under his number 7321 in Herb. Lindley. 



10. S. obtusus, Benth. mss. ; raceme very shortly peduncled erect, lip 

 slipper- shaped tip obtuse decurved, side lobes incurved ; anticous scale erect 

 tinder the truncate 3-lobed tip. Camarotis obtusa, Lindl. in Sot. Reg. 

 1884, Misc. 73 ; Walp. Ann. vi. 881. 



TENASSERIM ; at Moulmein, Griffith, Parish. 



Stem 6-8 in., not so thick as a goose-quill, simple or branched. Leaves 2-3 by 

 fin., subacute, keeled, often recurved. Raceme subsessile, lax-fld. ; bracts broad, 

 acute ; flowers i in. diam., pale rose-cold. ; sepals and petals linear-oblong, obtuse ; 

 lip yellowish with a subsaccate decurved apex, mouth with an exserted anticous 

 lamella, midlobe minute 3-toothed ; beak of column long, obliquely incurved. 



11. S. XVXannii, HooJc.f. ; raceme very short sessile few-fld., lip slipper- 

 shaped obtuse decurved, side lobes obtusely triangular incurved, anticous 

 scale truncate, close under the fleshy entire tip. 



KHASIA HILLS, alt. 2-3000 ft., Maun. 



Stem as thick as a goose-quill. Leaves very coriaceous, 4 by -| | in. Raceme 

 -|-| in. long; flowers ^ in. diam., apparently pale; sepals and petals spathulately 



