168 cxLvm. ORCHTDKE. (J. D. Hooker.) \HrmipHia. 



leaf orate or qblong, lip obcordate, gpnr shorter than the sepals, Eeichb. f. 

 in Of. Hamb. 38 ; Bot. Mag. t. 6920. 



TKITASSESIM ; on limestone rocks at Monlmein, Gilbert, Parish. 



LeafS-o in., from almost orbicular-ovate to linear-oblong acute, and slender scape 

 and bracts dark green mottled with brown. Scape with few-fld. racemes 6-8 in. ; 

 flowers distant, f in. diam. ; bracts shorter than the ovary ; dorsal tepal oblong, and 

 lateral and petals white ; lip purple, side lobes low, rounded, midlobe broad, 2-lobed ; 

 pollinia small, oblong, adnate to the elongate spathulate candicles. 



109. SATTBZUM, Sicartz. 



Terrestrial leafy erect herbs, tubers undivided. Leaves broad or narrow. 

 'Flowers in dense spikes. Sepals and petals snbsimilar, free, spreading 

 or deflexed. Lip superior, sessile at the base of the colnmn, erect, broad, 

 hooded, 2-spnrred or -saccate behind. Column erect, terete ; stigma terminal, 

 broad, concave, or forming with the rostellnm a 2-lipped body ; anther 

 dorsal, cells snbparallel ; pollinia 2, candicles recnrved, glands large naked 

 sometimes connate. Species 50, African and Indian. 



S. nepalense, Dem Prodr. 26; Lindl. Ger Orchid. 34- 



Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 44; Wight Ic. t. 929; Bat. Jfag. t. 6625 ; Wall Cat. 

 S. Perrottetianum. A. Hick, in Ann. Sc. 3 - 53: 



Wight Ic.i. 1716. S. albiflornm, A. ich. I. c. Wight Ic. t. 1717. - 

 pallidom, A. Sick. I. c. 



TEMPEEATE HIMALAYA, from Kashmir, alt. 4-6000 ft., eastwards, ascen 

 14,000 ft. in Sikkim. KHASIA HELLS, alt. 4-6000 ft. The DECCAX PEKUPSULA, from 

 Conran to Travancore. CETLOS, alt. 4-6000 ft. PBuBMA ; Shan states, alt. 4000 



Stem with spike 6-30 in., usually very stout, sheathed above. Leaves few, from 

 oblong to linear-oblong, 4-10 by 2-4 in., rather fleshy, sessile, base sheathing. 

 Spike 1-6 in., dense-fld. ; bracts much larger than the flowers, oblong or lanceolate, 

 erect spreading or recurved ; ovary turgid, \ in. long ; flowers from dark pink to 

 white, fragrant; sepals linear-oblong, obtuse, spreading and recurved ; petals rather 

 Earrower ; lip superior, broadly oblong, concave, strongly keeled on the back, spurs 

 variable in length and stoutness, about as long as the ovary ; column contracted and 

 terete at the base ; anther broad, cells turgid, tubes short, pollinia clavate, caudicles 

 frbort, glands orbicular; stigma large, concave. A very common and variable plant. 

 The Burmese specimen has orbicular leaves at the very base of the stem. 



Var. Wightwna ; radical leaves few broad, spike short dense-fld. S. Wighti- 

 vnmn, Lindl. Gen. $' Sp. Orchid. 340; in Journ. Linn. Soc. 1. c. ; Wight It. 1. 1713. 

 Xilghiri Mte. 



Var. ciliata, Lindl. 1. 1. c. ; a small plant with spurs hardly longer than the 

 sepal*. Sikkim, alt. 7-12,000 ft., J. D. H. Bhotan, alt. 10,000 ft., Griffith. 



110. DISPEBIS, Swartz. 



Terrestrial leafy herbs ; tnbers entire. Leaves 2 or more, scattered, sessile, 

 cordate. Flowers solitary or few. Dorsal sepal very narrow, coherent 

 with the broad petals into a snbglobose hood ; lateral spreading or deflexed, 

 free or bases connate, disk with a depression within answering to a cone 

 withont. Lip confident with the colnmn to above the anther, appearing as 

 if it surmounted the column. Column short in the Indian species, terets 

 below, stigmas on a transverse hyaline membrane, the ends of which form 

 twisted tabular processes that sheath the caudicles and glands of the 



