64 CXLVIII. ORCHID E JR. (J. D. Hooker*) [Sctecolabium. 



3-1 in. diam., 'greenish white; lip clouded with rose-colour, blade situated at the 

 mouth of the spur which it embraces, broadly deflexed flabelliform membranous 

 outer margins crennlate or trifid, side lobes free rounded; spur very short, conical, 

 incurved. 



36. S. maculatum, Ilook.f.; leaves 4-6 in., raceme elongate much 

 longer than the leaves laxly many-fld., spur obtuse villous within. Micro- 

 pera muculata. Dalz. in Hook. Jo urn. Sot. iii. (1851), 282; Dalz. fy G-ibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 263 ; Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 38. Sarcochilus macu- 

 latus, Bentk. in Gen. Plant, iii. 575. 



The SOUTHERN CONCAN and CANAEA ; on the Western Ghats, Dalzell, Stocks, 

 Ritchie, &c. 



Leaves 1-2 in., broad, linear-oblong to cuneately oblong, 2-lobed. Raceme 

 8-12 in., very shortly peduncled ; bracts short, broad; rachis stout; flowers \ in. 

 diam., subsessile ; sepals and petals yellow with a central purple spot ; lip white and 

 rose-cold., blade situated below the mouth of the short saccate obtuse spur, which it 

 overlaps, very coriaceous, entire; side lobes connate below, narrow, erect and re- 

 curved. Capsule 1| in., fusiform, 6-ribbed. Allied, 1 think, to S. viridiflorum, 

 and not a Sarcochilus, to which Bentham has referred it. 



Sect. Y. DISTICHA. (See p. 54.) 



37. S. distichum, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 36 ; leaves 1 in. 

 lanceolate acuminate or 2-3-cuspidate, peduncle 2-3-fld., sepals and petals 

 obovate-oblong, lip with a saccate subhemispheric spur, midlobe small semi- 

 circular fleshy entire with a didymous callus at the base. Reichb. f. Otia 

 Hamburg, 43. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 6-8000 ft., Griffith's Collectors. KHASIA HILLS, 

 alt. 5-6000 ft., J. D. H. fr T. T. MUNNIPOEE, alt. 6900 ft., Watt. 



Stems 4-8 in., filiform. Leaves very fleshy. Peduncle rarely longer than the 

 leaves; flowers racemose, 3 | in. diam.; bracts small; sepals and petals green or 

 yellowish spotted with purple ; side lobes of lip ; column very short. Capsule 

 f in., fusiform. 



38. S. tenuicaule, Hook.f.Ic. Plant, ined.-, leaves 3-4 in. linear-lan- 

 ceolate, flowers shortly pedicelled on a tubercle of the stem, sepals broadly 

 obliquely ovate acute, petals smaller, side lobes of lip erect subacute nearly 

 as long as the lanceolate incurved bicuspidate midlobe, spur short con- 

 stricted above the saccate incurved base, villous within at the constriction. 



PENANG ; on West Hill, Curtis. PEEAK, Scortechini, Wray. 



Stem 8-12 in., as thick as a crow-quill, simple or branched, rooting at the base 

 only, deeply grooved. Leaves |- in. broad, strict. Flowers $ in. diam., pale green ; 

 sepals thin, nerves 3 faint; petals 1-nerved ; column stout ; midlobe of lip cymbi- 

 form smooth. Column short, anther membranous, almost flat, acuminate ; rostellum 

 projected, styliform ; strap of small reniforra pollinia broad, with a dilated subreni- 

 forrn apex, gland small. 



Sect. VI. SPECIOS^E. (See p. 54.) 



39. S. ampullaceum, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7307; Sert. Orchid, t.17; 

 in Journ. Linn. iSoc. iii. 35 (excl. syn.}; leaves suberect acutely 2-fid. or 

 truncate and toothed, raceme subsessile, shorter than the leaves, spur 

 straight. Paxt. Mag. Bot. xiii. t. 49 ; Bot. Mag. t. 5595 ; Warner Orchid. 

 Alb. 1. 191. ^Brides ampullaceum, Roxb. Fl. Lid. iii. 476. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA, alt. 1-3000 ft., from Nepal eastwards. SILHET, 

 MUNNIPOBE, BUEMA, and TENASSERIM. 



Stem short, stout. Leaves 2-6 in., deeply channelled. Racemes shorter than 

 the leaves, cylindric ; bracts minute; flowers f in. diam., rose-red; sepals and 

 petals broadly obovate, widely spreading; spur longer than the blade of the lip. 



