SarcocMlus.'] CXLTIII. ORCHIDE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 37 



oblong; lip with the claw as long as the saccate portion. Very much stouter and 

 larger more coriaceous -leaved than S. oltusus. Lip with a ridge along the posticous 

 face. 



Sect. Y. CHILOSCHISTA, Lindl. (gen.). (See p. 33.) 



12. S. usneoides, Reichb.f. in Walp. Ann. vi. 497 ; racemes elongate 

 many-fld., flowers white, capsule 1^-2 in. Chiloschista usneoides, Lindl. in 

 Wall. Cat. 7330 ; Gen. fr 8p. Orchid. 219 ; Bot. Beg. under t. 1522 ; Serf. 

 Orchid. Frontisp. f. 4 ; in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 43 ; Gard. Chron. 1846, 135. 

 Thrixspermum usneoides, Reichb.f. Xenia, ii. 120. 



TEOPICAL HIMALAYA ; Nepal, Wallich. SIKKIM, J. D. H. 



Soots densely tufted, tortuous ; stem 0. Raceme 3-6 in. ; bracts ovate acute, 

 membranous ; flowers subsessile, i in. diam. ; sepals spreading, oblong, obtuse ; side 

 lobes of lip linear-oblong, obtuse; disk between the lobes pubescent ; midlobe truncate, 

 emarginate; column very short ; rostellum indistinct ; anther broadly ovate, with 2-3 

 slender setse; pollinia 2, 2-lobed, strap very short broad, gland large. Capsule 

 slender, slightly curved, glabrous. 



13. S. luniferus, Reickb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1868, 786 (Thrixsper- 

 mum) ; racemes elongate, many-fld. flowers yellow spotted with purple. 

 Sarcochilus luniferus, Bot. Mag. t. 7044. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, J. D. H. ; at Mungpo (Ic. in Sort. Calcutt.). TENA- 

 SEEIM ; at Moulmein Parish. 



Except in the colour of the flowers I can find no difference between this and 

 S. usneoides, the authority for the colours of which latter is a drawing made by 

 Wallich's artists during his visit to Nepal, and another in Sikkim. Parish observes 

 that very small leaves are sometimes produced, and these have been seen in Kew 

 Gardens. 



14. S. Wiglitii* Hook. f. ; racemes short few-fld., flowers white or 

 cream-coloured, capsule f in. long. Chiloschista usneoides, Wight Ic. 1. 1741 

 (excl. the left-hand figure] (not of Lindl.} ; Walp. Ann. vi. 498. P ^Eceoceadus 

 Eetzii, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 237. Epidendrum pusillum, Retz Obs. 

 vi. 49. Limoderum pusillum, Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 126. 



MALABAR ; at Cochin, Johnson. NILGHIKI HILLS ; on the western slope of the 

 Wynaad, Wight, &c. CEYLON, on trees in the Botanical Gardens ; Trimen. 



A very imperfectly known species ; Wight's figure represents the side lobes of the 

 lip as somewhat crenate, and the sepals and petals as glabrous without and hairy 

 within, the flowers as much smaller than in C. usneoides, the capsules as much 

 shorter and stouter. The left-hand figure (No. 7) on Wight's plate represents a very 

 different plant, which I do not recognize. There is in Herb. Kew a specimen, 

 apparently of S. Wightii, from Ceylon (Herb. Horjt. Peradeniya), sent by Dr. Trimen 

 (C.P. 4017), who has since informed me of its locality. 



15. S. minimifolius, Hoolc.f.; raceme few-fld., capsule -g- in. long 

 Cymbidium minimifolium, Thwaites mss. 



CEYLON ; Central Province, at Hattegodde Hill, Thwaites. 



Roots much more slender than in S. usneoides. Leaves 2, very minute. Raceme 

 ^-f in.; flowers in. diam.; side lobes of lip rounded, nearly as large as the 

 lateral sepals. Capsule much curved, pubescent. The specimens are insufficient for 

 a further description. 



Sect. YI. (see p. 33). 



16. S. Berkeley!, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1882, 557 (Thrix- 

 spermum) ; raceme elongate decurved, lip long-clawed produced into an 

 elongate clavate laterally compressed obtuse spur with an inflated tip, 

 side lobes small erect, midlobe minute incurved. 



