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7. COTTON I A, Wight. 



1. C MACROSTACHYS, Wight Ic. 1755. Epiphytal, caulescent; 

 leaves linear distichous, obliquely emarginate; peduncles very long 

 and wiry, bearing a few-flowered short racemes at the apex ; flower- 

 buds globose ; sepals broad-obovate, obtuse ; petals smaller, sub- 

 lanceolate, cuneate at the base ; lip fiddle-shaped, purple with 

 yellow borders, velvetty, and furnished with bristly knobs and 

 curious appendages. One of our most singular Orchids, the flower 

 somewhat resembling a Humble-Bee. At Kulna in the Warree 

 Country, and on Chola Ghaut, now established in Dapoorie Garden. 

 Syn. Vanda peduncularis, Lind. Gen. and S|>. Orch, p 2!6 ; Pax- 

 ton's Fl. Gard. iii, t. 253. Lindley's specimens were from Ceylon. 



8. MICROPERA, Dalzell. 



1. M MACULATA, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. iii, 282. Almost 

 stemless ; leaves flat, linear oblong, narrow towards the base, 

 obliquely emarginate at the apex, and furnished with a mucro ; 

 racemes basal and axillary, simple, solitary, elongated, erect, many- 

 flowered from the base, twice the length of the leaves ; sepals and 

 petals about equal, obovate; lip painted with white and rose-colour, 

 and furnished with two horns on the sides, which lean backwards ; 

 spur shorter than the flower, saccate, obtuse, pointing forwards, 

 hairy within, and lying under a 3-lobed laminae ; the lip in the front 

 resembles a shoe, with the front leather turned backwards, white at 

 the base ; it is like a side-saddle. Very curious. Tulkut Ghaut; 

 flowers in May ; sepals and petals yellow, with a purple spot in the 

 centre. 



9. SACCOLABIUM. 



1. S GUTTATUM, Lind. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 220. Leaves 

 linear-channelled, denticulate-truncate or prsemorse at the apex ; 

 racemes pendulous, densely many-flowered ; posterior sepal ovate, 

 lateral ones unequal-sided, about twice the breadth of the 

 lanceolate-acute petals ; spur saccate, compressed, conical, hairy on 

 the throat ; laminae of the lip broad, obcordato-cuneate, spreading ; 

 flowers pale-pink, dotted with deeper coloured spots; lip deeper 

 pink. Salsette and the Concans. Syn. S blumei ; S rheedei, 

 Wight Ic. 1745-46, exclude the dissections. 



2. S VIRIDIFLORUM, Lind. in Proc. Linn. Soc. iii, p 36. 

 Stemless ; leaves 2, oblong, flat obtuse, emarginate ; peduncle 

 lateral, with two sheaths, few-flowered, much shorter than the leaves ; 

 sepals and petals unguiculate, obtuse ; lip oval, equal to the 

 incurved infundibular spur. Very like Oeceoclades pusilla, but 

 with much shorter spikes, and fleshy, not membranous, flowers. On 



