Saccolabium.'] OXLVIIL ORCHIDE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 59 



BHOTAN HIMALAYA, Lister. ASSAM ; at Goalpara, Hamilton. STLHET, 

 Wallich. TENASSERIM, Parish, 



Stem stout, rigid, iuternodes ^ in. Leaves 3-5 by -f in., fleshy, 5-nrved. 

 Raceme with long slender peduncle 5-6 in., laxly many-fld. ; bracts subulate ; flowers 

 ^ in. diam., yellowish ; sepals 5-nerved ; petals much sin aller, cuneately obovate, 

 3-nerved ; lip yellow, mouth of spur a very narrow chink, neck contracted, base 

 globose didymous ; side lobes of elongate column broad, rounded, top recurved; 

 anther long-pointed; strap of globose pollinia very slender arched, gland very 

 minute.- Column and lip so different from the genus that Rcicheubach 1. c. suggests 

 its separation. Lindley's name of parvulum is too misleading to be adopted. 



15. S. micranthum, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7300; Gen. fy Sp. Ch-chid. 

 220 ; leaves lorate unequally obtusely 2-lobed, scape stout flowering to 

 the base, racemes very many and dense-fld., sepals broadly ovate obtuse 

 3-nerved, petals oblong or lanceolate serrulate, spar of lip shorter than the 

 sepals subtruncate, blade obovate- spathulate with 2 basal calli, lateral 

 lobes broad obtuse. Saunders' Refug. Sot. t. 110. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA; from Garwhal and Kumaou, alt. 2-3000 ft., Falconer, 

 Duthie; to Bhotau, Griffith. ASSAM, SILHET and the NAGA HILLS, Prain. 

 TENASSEEIM, Griffith, Parish. 



Stem 610 in., curved, as thick as a goose-quill or less. Leaves 35 by f 1 in., 

 narrowed to the base. Raceme equalling the leaves ; bracts small, broad ; flowers 

 about in. diam.; 3-nerved sepals and petals violet; lip rose-red; column very 

 short ; anther very broad, acuminate globose ; pollinia strap very short broadly 

 cordate, gland orbicular. Capsules \ in., subfusiform. 



16. S- rostellatum, Hook. f. Ic. Plant, ined. ; stem very short, 

 leaves 4-7 in. lorate flat unequally 2-fid, raceme much shorter than the 

 leaves, bracts minute, sepals broadly ovate-oblong obtuse, lip infundidular 

 narrowed below into a stout obtuse spur rather longer than the sepals, 

 side lobes truncate, midlobe an incurved beak. 



SIKKIM ; at Darjeeling, alt. 7000 ft., G-amble (in Herb. Calcutt.}. 



Roots very many and long, tortuous, flat, appressed to the bark. Leaves ^-f in. 

 diam., ueavly straight. Peduncle with 8 10-fld. raceme 2 in., slender; flowers 

 in. long from the tip of the dorsal sepal to that of the spur ; petals oblong, obtuse, 

 smaller than the sepals; column very short; rostellum subulate; pollinia large, 

 globose, cleft. 



17. S. minimiflorum, Hook. f. Ic. Plant, ined. ; stem very short, 

 leaves elliptic- lanceolate narrowed at both ends acute, scape much longer 

 than the leaves very slender very many-fld., bracts subulate equalling the 

 very minute flowers, sepals and petals oblong obtuse, lip conico- sacciform, 

 side lobes 0, midlobe an incurved beak with a globose tubercle at the 

 mouth of the sac. 



PEBAK, Scort echini. 



Roots slender, tufted. Leaves 1^-2 in., black when dry, thinly coriaceous, 

 reddish beneath. Scape with raceme 2-6 in., with a few subulate empty bracts 

 below ; flowers greenish yellow mottled, about - in. long or broad ; lip larger than 

 the rest of the perianth, its beak-like laterally compressed terminal lobe incurved 

 over the mouth; column short; anther long-beaked. A curious little, plant. I 

 have had difficulty in dissecting the few available flowers, and thereby confirming a 

 description and rude drawing by Scortechini, who mentions " a something membra- 

 nous whitish which I cannot make out whether it is a rostellum or stipes." This I 

 presume to be a recurved elongate body which appears to be attached to the base of 

 the column. 



18. S. Jerdonianum, Reichb. f. in Walp. 'Ann. vi. 8S6 ; leaves 

 linear subacute, racemes simple or branched slender, sepals ovate 1 -nerved 



