68 CXLVIII, ORCHIDETE. (J. D. Hooker.) [SarcantJms. 



The DECCAN PENINSULA; on the Ghats from the Concan to Travancore. 

 CEYLON ; in the Saffragam district. 



Stem 10-12 in., as thick as a duck's quill, flexnou?, pendulous. Leaves uniform, 

 6-8 by -^ in., rigid, strict or curved, 3-5-nerved, acuminate, tip obtuse, sheaths 

 ribbed. Racemes slender, bracts minute; flowers in. diam., greenish or yellow 

 with pink margins and a violet lip ; sepals and petals rather spreading ; spur 

 more or less perfectly 2-celled, dorsal callus small; column short; anther beaked, 

 pollinia didymous, strap slender dilated upwards, gland small. Capsule -f-f in., 

 deflexed, narrowly oblong. 



6. S. insectifer, Reiclib. f. in Sot. Zeit. 1857, 159; leaves many 

 ^ by f in. oblong amplexicaul, spikes very short stout few-fld., sepals ovate- 

 oblong obtuse, petals oblong, side lobes of lip rounded, midlobe large trian- 

 gular-ovate fleshy, spur short broadly conical. 



BEHAB; at Burkutta, J. D. H. CACHAR, Mann. CHITTAGONG (Ic. in Sort. 

 Calcutt.). TF.NASSEBIM, Parish. 



Stem a foot and upwards, robust, scandent, thicker than a goose-quill. Leaves 

 subimbricate, obliquely obtusely 2-lobed with sometimes an intermediate apiculus, 

 thickly coriaceous. Spikes % in., sessile; bracts small, deciduous; flowers in. 

 diam., greenish-yellow striped with red-brown; lip white and pink or purple, mid- 

 lobe acute or acuminate, spur semiseptate mouth with a pubescent ridge, dorsal 

 callus large ; column very short, stout, tip reclinate and with uncinate recurved 

 arms; anther truncate, pollinia globose didymous, strap short very broad, gland 

 transverse. 



7. S. Scortechinii, Hook. f. ; leaves 3-5 by 1| in. subpetioled 

 oblong-lanceolate acute flat, spike about equalling the leaves very stout 

 many-fld., sepals oblong acute, petals half as broad, side lobes of lip ob- 

 solete, midlobe hastately deltoid, spur longer than the sepals conical obtuse 

 curved. 



PEBAK, Scortechini ; on rocks, Wray. 



Stem elongate, robust, as thick as a goose-quill. Leaves very thick. Spikes 

 2-6 in., flowers ^ in. diam. ; sepals and petals lurid purple with green midrib and 

 margins ; lip -J- in., yellowish, spur 2-celled, dorsal callus large ; column short ; anther 

 obtusely beaked ; pollinia 4, broadly oblong, strap linear. Capsules 1 in., 

 linear-oblong, deflexed. Described from fruiting specimens and a drawing by 

 Scortechini. 



8. S. pallidus, Lindl. in Sot. Reg. 1840, Misc. 78 ; in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. iii. 39 ; leaves 10-14 in. lorate flat, panicle very large copiously 

 branched laxly many-fld., sepals and smaller petals oblong obtuse, side 

 lobes of lip triangular acuminate, midlobe a small incurved ovate acute 

 fleshy beak, spur a cylindiic obtuse sac. S. racemifer, Reichb. f. in Wlp. 

 Ann. vi. 891. S. tricolor, R.f. in Bonpland. ii. 219. Saccolabium racemi- 

 ferum, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 224. Aerides racemiferum, Wall. mss. 



EAST NEPAL, alt. 4000 ft., J. D. E. BHOTAN and the KHASIA HILLS, 

 alt. 4-6000 ft., Wallich, &c. BURMA, Berkeley. 



Stem as thick as the thumb ; roots very stcut. Leaves very coriaceous, 2 in. 

 broad, deeply obtusely 2-lobed. Panicle with the stout peduncle 2-3 ft., branches 

 long, slender; bracts at the forks ovate-lanceolate, floral subulate, persistent; 

 pedicel with ovary \ in. ; flowers \ in. diam.; sepals and petals dark purple edged 

 with yellow ; lip white, s|iur thick-walled, about as long as the sepals, semiseptals 

 longitudinally, dorsal callus 2-lobed ; column short, stout, rostellum obscure ; 

 anther broad, acute, pollinia oblong, strap dilated above, gland small. Capsule 

 f in., ellipsoid or clavate. The E. Nepal specimen has shorter leaves and an ellipsoid 

 capsule. 



