Cletsostoma.'] CXLVIII. oticHtftE/F!. (<J. D. Hooker.) 73 



dull red with a pale central band ; lip yellowish flashed with red, midlobe incurved, 

 spur sometimes transversely septate towards the base, dorsal callus forked ; column 

 very short, rostellum short; anther beaked, strap of globose pollinia slender, dilated 

 upwards, gland small. The spur is like that of Saccolab. buccosum. 



7. C. tenerum. Hook. f. ; stem scandent, leaves 1-2 in. oblong, 

 base cordate, raceme few-fld. on a short stout leaf-opposed peduncle, side lobes 

 of lip large truncate crermlate, midlobe ovate obtusely 3-lobed fleshy, spur 

 very short conical incurved. CEceoclades tenera, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 

 236; Wight Ic. t. 1680; Thwaite* Enum. 306; IValp. Ann. vi. 8.95. 

 CEonia ? alata, A. Sick, in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, xv. 67, t. 7. Saccolabium 

 ? tenerum, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 36. 



NILGHIHI HILLS ; in woods near Ncddubetta, Perrottet. CEYLON ; in the Central 

 Province, alt. 3-5000 ft., Macrae, &c. 



Stem 1-2 ft., as thick as a duck's quill. Leaves scattered, fleshy, tip rounded 

 or notched. Peduncle | in., woody ; basal sheaths cupular ; bracts cymbiform ; 

 flowers f in. diam., fleshy, yellow or greenish, nerves red ; sepals and petals oblanceo- 

 late obtuse, lateral sepals decurved ; midlobe of lip white, dorsal callus fleshy ; 

 column Trither long ; anther short broad acute, strap of globose pollitiia slender, gland 

 small. Capsule 1 in., turgid, elliptic-oblong or p>riform. Erronejusly referred to 

 Saccolab. brevifolium in Gen. Plant, (iii. 579). I have seen no Nilghiri specimen. 



8. C. bipunctatum, Hook.f.; stem slender scandent, leaves 4-6 

 by -| | in. subacute, peduncle very short, 1-2 fid. side lobes of lip small 

 subfalcate, midlobe large ovate-lanceolate, spur very small incurved 

 obtuse, saccate. Saccolabium bipunctatum, Par. & Beichb. f. in Trans* 

 Linn. Soc. xxx. 145. 



TENASSEEIM ; at Moulmein, Parish. 



Stem about as thick as a duck's quill. Leares lorate, laterally notched towards 

 the tip; costa stout beneath. Flowers about in. diam., yellow and purplish; 

 bracts obscure ; sepals oblong-lanceolate, acute, 3-nerved, and linear-oblong 1-nerved 

 petals falcate ; midlobe of lip longer than the sepals, white, 3-nerved with a basal 

 callu?, dorsal scale membranous toothed ; column very short ; anther short, very 

 broad, strap of subglobose pollinia linear, gland small. I have seen only a very small 

 specimen. Reicheubach, though describing the scale in the spur, places this in 

 Saccolabium. 



9. C. brevipes, Hook. /. ; stem elongate, leaves 4 in. distichous 

 uniform linear-lanceolate acute fleshy, spike short sessile dense-fid., rachis 

 very thick, bracts short, flowers f in. diam., sepals and petals subsimilar 

 ovate-oblong obtuse orange-yellow with two purple bands, lip pale yellow, 

 side lobes falcate acute, midlobe sliort ha*tate with a membranous 2- 

 awned tip, disk thickened, spur a short sac tip rounded. 



SIZKIM HIMALAYA, (Ic. in Hart. Calcutt.) ; alt. 5000 ft. Gamble. ASSAM, (Hort. 

 N. CampanyJ) 



Stems tufted, 8-12 in., as thick as a goose-quill, internodes -f in., rugulose. 

 Leaves erecto-pateut, sessile, -| in. diam., flat, hard, tip micronate. Sp>ke 1-1-| in. ; 

 basal sheaths short, annular, and bracts brown ; ovary \ in., green striped with dull 

 purple; sac of lip shining, thiikened disk extending backward to meet the thick 

 callus at the base of the column, thus closing the orifice of the sac; column short, 

 stour, pollinia subquadrate, strap compressed, gland large, 2-partite. Capsule 1-1 

 in., fusiform, terete, fleshy, stria te. Described from fresh cultivated specimens 

 seat to Kew. 



