72 CXLVHI. ORCHIDE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Cleisostomct. 



CEYLON; in the Central Province, Macrae, &c. 



Stem as thick as a swan's quill. Leaves coriaceous, obtusely unequally 2-lobed. 

 Peduncle with annular sheaths; bracts short, broad; flowers in. diam., yellow 

 spotted with red ; spur much smaller than the obovate-oblong sepals, dorsal scale 

 truncate ; column very short, rostellum short ; anther small, strap of globose pollinia 

 linear, gland small. Capsule 1^ in., narrowly clavate. Beutham (Gen. Plant, iii. 

 580) erroneously unites Thwaites' Saccolabium lineolatum, C.P. 2741 (S. ochraceum, 

 Lindl.) with Lindley's C. maculosum. 



4. C. crassifolium, Lindl. in Paxt. Fl. Gard. in. 125, t. 99 ; leaves 

 8-10 in. obtuse keeled, peduncle long stout branched, spikes recurved, lip 

 with a pubescent ridge at the mouth of the cylindric spur, side lobes rounded, 

 midlobe broadly ovate, lateral angles acute recurved. Jard. Fleur. iv. t. 

 397; Walp. Ann. vi. 889 ; Lindenia iii. t. 139. 



TENASSERIM ? (Hort. Veitch.). 



Stem as thick as the thumb. Leaves recurved, very thick, channelled above. 

 Peduncle equalling the leaves ; flowers \ in. diam. ; sepals oblong, obtuse, and petals 

 green and spotted; lip rose-cold., mouth of spur closed by the thickened ridge, disk 

 of midlobe thickened ; dorsal callus compressed, decurved ; column very short ; 

 anther acuminate, pollinia 4, subglobose, strap linear, gland small. 



** Stem short. Peduncle slender ; flowers scattered on the slender 

 branches of the panicle. 



5. C. ramosum, Hook. f. ; stem short, leaves loriform obliquely 

 2-lobed, panicles broad, sepals obovate equalling the conical spur, side lobes 

 of lip very small, midlobe triangular-ovate obtuse, disk at base and short 

 spur within pubescent. Saccolabium ramosum, Lindl. Gen. <$f Sp. Orchid. 

 224. S. flexuosum, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 36. CEceoclades flexuosa, 

 Lindl in Wall. Cat. 7333 ; Gen. $ Sp. Orchid. 236. Aerides ramosum, 

 Wall. mss. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA; in hot valleys, J. D. H. LOWER BENGAL and the Sunder- 

 bunds, Waltich, Clarke. BUKMA on the Attran Kiver, Wallich; Moulinein, 

 Parish. 



Stem 3-3 in. Leaves 3-5 by ^-i in. Panicle erect; bracts minute ; flowers 

 in. diam., buff, or yellowish flushed or faintly blotched with red, or dull red with 

 green margins ; sepals and smaller obovate petals 3-nerved ; lip white, flushed with 

 pink or baaded with yellow ; dorsal scale in spur erect 2-fid. pubescent ; column 

 very short, broad ; anther short very broad, pollinia (4, 2 very small, Ciarke), strap 

 dilated upwards and suddenly contracted at the tip. Capsule $ in., fusiform. 

 Wallich's specimens from Burma have very narrow leaves. 



*** Stem usually elongate. Peduncle slender or stout rarely branched, 

 usually shorter than the Leaves. 



6. C. spicatum, Lindl. in Sot. Reg. 1847, under t. 32 ; leaves 4-8 by 

 | 2 in., spike stout simple dense-fld., bracts ovate-subulate deflexed, side 

 lobes of lip broad rounded, midlobe small ovate fleshy, spur contracted 

 above the inflated 4-lobulate base. Sarcanthus densiflorus, Par. & Reichb. 

 f. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxx. 136'. Saccolabium densiflorum, Lindl. in Wall. 



Cat. 7311 ; Gen. fy Sp. Orchid. 220 ; in Bot. Reg. 1838, Misc. 56. brides 

 densiflorum, Wall. mss. 



TENASSERIM ; at Moulmein, Parish. PENANG, Wallich, Curtis. DISTRIB. 

 Borneo. 



Stem as thick as the middle finger in Penanjr, more slender in Moulmeiu. 

 Leaves oblong or linear-oblong, broadly unequally 2-lobed. Spike decurved or pen- 

 dulous ; flowers in. diam., glabrous or subrurfuraceous ; sepals and petals broad, 



