Saccolalrium^] OXLVIII, ORCHIDE/E. (J. D. Hooker.) 63 



very stout, internodes short, sheaths annular, bracts semicircular, flowers 

 papillose, midlobe of lip broadly ovate or rounded, sac rounded tubercled 

 and pubescent at the base within. Acamp'e excavata, Lindl. Fol. Orchid. 

 3 ; Walp. Ann. vi. 874. Cymbidium praemorsum, Swartz in Nov. Act. 

 Upsal. vi. 75 ; Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 103 ; Eoxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 465. Epiden- 

 drum prEemorsum, Eoxb. GOT. PI. i. 34, t. 43. Rheede Hort. Mai. xii. t. 4. 

 Aerides undulata, Smith in Rees Cyclop, xxxix. 



WESTERN PENINSULA ; in the Circars, Roxburgh; the Coucan, Laiv. 



Apparently near 8. Wightianum, but more slender, leaves narrower, lip deeply 

 lobed, very complicate, flowers small, papillose all over, -| -| in. diam. Capsule 

 2% in. 



32. S. papillosum, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1552 (excl. syn.} ; Gen. & 

 Sp. Orchid. 222 ; stem elongate branched scandent, leaves 3-4 in., scape 

 1-2 in., internodes close, bracts semicircular, midlobe of lip ovate, spur 

 conical pubescent within. S. carinatum, Griff. Notul. iii. 354. Acampe 

 papillosa, Lindl. Fol. Orchid. 2 ; Walp. Ann. vi. 873. Sarcochilus pree- 

 morsus, Spreng. Syst. PI. iii. 721, fid Steudel. 



BENGAL and the lower HIMALAYA MTS., from Sikkim eastwards. ASSAM, the 

 GANGETIC DELTA, the CIRCAES and TENASSERIM. 



Stem 2-3 ft., as thick as a goose-quill. Leaves obliquely notched. Scape closely 

 scarred to the base ; flowers -| in. diam.; ovary very short. Capsule l in., fusi- 

 form. The lip is broader in Lindley's figure than in Sylhet specimens, in which they 

 are oblong-ovate. - 



33. S. cephalotes, Hook. /. ; stem very short, leaves 3-5 in. narrow 

 with a unilateral semicircular sinus at the tip, peduncle 1 in., midlobe of 

 lip broadly ovate crenulate, sac conic hairy within. Acampe cephalotes 

 Lindl. Fol. Orchid. 3 ; Walp. Ann. vi. 873. 



SILHET ; H.f. fy T. 



A small species, of which there are very few specimens ; it appears to differ from 

 S. papilloseum in the short stems, longer crowded leaves and small yellow green 

 flowers barred with purple ; lip pale rose with darker spots, disk fimbriate. 



34. S. congrestum* Hook. f. ; stem short very stout, leaves 6-8 in., 

 scape l|-2 in., internodes very short, bracts broadly ovate acute, flowers 

 crowded, limb of lip rhomboid acute-angled, spur shortly conical or saccate 

 hairy within. S. papillosum, Wight Ic. t. 16'72 (not of Lindl.}. Acampe 

 congesta, Lindl. Fol, Orchid. 3 ; Walp. Ann. vi. 873. Vanda congesta, 

 Lindl. in Sot. Reg. 1839, Misc. bl. 



MALABAR, Wight. CEYLON (Hort. Loddiges). 



Lindley's V. congesta i'rom Ceylon is described as having obliquely mucronulate 

 leaves, yellow and brown flowers, lip with an excavate pubescent base, and column 

 with mucronate angles (a single flower only is in Herb. Lindl.). Wight S. papil- 

 losum, is figured with .deeply 2-lobed leaves and a curved spur ; his specimens (in 

 Herb. Lindl. 1019/1836) have curved leaves 8-10 by 1-14- in- 



Sect. IY. PLATYRHIZOX. (See p. 54). 



35. S. viridiflorum, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. foe. iii. 36 ; leaves 

 1-2^ in., racemes shorter than the leaves subcorymbose, spur acute glabrous 

 within parallel to the blade of the lip. Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 263; 

 Walp. Ann. vi. 885. Micropera viridiflora, Dalz. in Hook. Journ. Sot. iii. 

 (1851), 282. 



The SOUTHERN CONCAN ; in the Western Ghats, Law, Dalzell. CEYLON, near 

 Kandy (Ic. in Serb. Kew). 



Leaves |- in. broad. Raceme 3-5-fld. ; bracts short, broad, obtuse j flowers 



