70 CXLYIII. OKCHIDE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Sarcanthus. 



gland ovate. Described from an excellent drawing by Parish. Habit, spike and 

 bracts of Cleisostoma spicatum ; but the flowers are smaller, yellow, and the spur 

 distinctly septate within. 



13. S. oxyphyllus, Wall, ex Lindl. in Bot. Eeg. 1840, Misc. 58 ; 

 leaves 6-12 by |-f in. rigid acuminate, racemes short dense-lid., sepals 

 oblong obtuse, petals smaller obovate-oblong, side lobes of lip acuminate, 

 midlobe small ovate incurved, spur much longer than the sepals sub- 

 cylindric obtuse. ? Cleisostoma subulatum, Blume Bijd. 362. Angraecum 

 pugioniforme, Klotzsch in Cat. Sem. Hort. Berol. 



TENASSEEIM ; at Moulmein, Parish. 



Stem short. Leaves thickly coriaceous, margins recurved, narrowed to both ends. 

 Raceme 4-6 in. ; bracts minute, acute; flowers in. diam., dull purple, with yellow 

 disk and margins ; spur large, obtuse, septate below the middle, dorsal callus large 

 lobed ; column rather long, rostellum minute ; anther acuminate, pollinia didymous, 

 strap very slender, gland minute. Very near S. pugioniformis, Reichb. f. in Otto and 

 Diet. Gartenzeit, 1856, 219, but the leaves in that are broader and racemes much 

 longer. Lindley (Bot. Reg. 1. c.) says that oxyphyllus is nothing but a narrow leaved 

 var. of the Chinese S. rostratus, but as noted under S. secundus there has been a 

 misapplication or transference of Wallich's name of oxyphylhis by Liudley or 

 Wallich. 



SPECIES UNKNOWN TO ME. 



S. AEIETINUS, Reichl. f. in Gard. Chron. 1869, 416 ; stem 5 in., leaves 3 in. 

 straight stout terete as thick as a quill, raceme small deflexed many fm., bracts trian- 

 gular not half the length of the pedicelled ovary, flowers small greenish, lip rosy, sepals 

 oblong, petals ligulate obtusely acute, lip 3-fid, side lobes obtuse-angled plaited in 

 the middle, midlobe triangular acute yellowish, spur retrorse with an erect lamellate 

 grooved callus under the column, column slender velvety at the angles of the lip near 

 the fovea. Assam (Hort. Day). Stiff, as if made of tin. 



S. ASPEESTJS, Reichb. f. in Haml. Gartenzeit, 1865, 297; near S. Parish leaves 

 ligulate broadly 2-toothed, peduncle long slender, flowers racemed equalling 8. 

 paniculatus, sepals green, lip purple-spotted, sepals ovate apiculate, petals spur 

 curved with a longitudinal septum, side lobes semi-ovate involute auricled at the 

 isthmus and at the base, midlobe sessile triangular. Burma, Hort^Soc. 



S. CHEYSOMELAS, Reichb. /. in Gard. Chron. 1869, 662 ; leaves broadly lorate 

 unequally 2-lobed, panicle simple, bracts triangular much shorter than the pedicelled 

 ovaries, flowers yellowish, disk of sepals and petals blackish-purple, sepals and sub- 

 equal petals oblong, side lobes of lip triangular with an ascending awn, midlobe 

 triangular, spur straight conical, septum running from the posticous base of the spur 

 along the anticous and excurrent on the midlobes, callus under the column bicrural, 

 column slender, base puberulous. Tenasserim, at Moulmeiu, Benson (Hort. Veitch.) 

 S. paniculatus has a 3-fid midlobe of the lip ; S. racemifcr (Saccolab. racemiferum 

 and Sarcanth. pallidus, Lindl.), has a totally different column anther, callus, and 

 different side lobes of lip. 



S. MACEODON, Reichb f. in Gard. Chron. 1872, 1555 ; leaves short oblong-ligulate 

 with 2 triangular forcipate teeth, raceme elongate laxly many-fld., bracts most 

 minute, pedicelled ovary and cylindric spur equal, sepals and petals oblong straight 

 ribbe*d on the back, lip 3-fid, side lobes subquadrate anticous angle folded inwards, 

 midlobe triangular concave, column short with a styliform deflexed process on 

 each side next to the elongate deflexed linear triangular rostellum. Madras Presi- 

 dency, Benson (Hort. Veitch.}. 



S. MIEABILIS, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1878, ii. 300; leaves 6 by f in. ligulate 

 2-fid, lobes ligulate obtuse, panicle If in. elongate slender, branches distant erect 

 ends racemose, bracts most minute, flowers small yellowish, spur purple, sepals oblong 

 acute dorsal arched gibbous, petals ligulate, lip 3-fid, side lobes short erect oblong 

 acute, midlobe triangular horizontal, spur cylindric semicurved grooved septate, 

 dorsal callus forked, strap of pollinia oblong bent over the compressed andrc cliuium, 

 pollinia blue on a forked appendage of the strap. Burma ? (Hort. Hobart). Near S. 



