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lip of this plant excluding it, in cur opinion, from any other genus. For S. ob/uiws and S. Mannii 
we have re-established the Lindleyan genus Cumarotis (to which the former originally belonged under 
the name Camarotis obtusa), The characters which make the revival of Oamarotis necessary are the 
dorsal position of the anther, the shape and direction of the enormously developed rostellum, and 
the form of the lip. For S. hirtus we retain the genus Séereochilus which Lindley originally fouuded 
for it; and we have transferred, for reasons given under our deseription of the species, to the same 
genus the plant described in the Flora of British India as Cleisostoma bieuspidatum. Stereochilus has a 
spurred lip; the middle lobe is large and the lateral lobes are very small; the anther is terminal - 
and the rostellum at right angles to the column—characters which exclude it from the Sarcochilus of 
Brown. Finally, we have, on account of the conspicuous spur, the small size of the side lobes, and 
th» comparativeiy large sizə of the apical lobe—but above all on account of the fact that the lip 
is jointed to the column—restored ©. Arachnites to Blume's genus Dendrocolla. 
Leafless; racemes pubescent, many-flcwered ^ . .. . . . . . 1. 8. lhmiforus, 
“Leafy; racemes glabrous, with only two to three flowers . > . . 2. S. pugmeus. 
1. SARCOCHILUS LUNIFERUS, Benth, MSS. ex Hook. fil. in Bot. Mag., t. 7014. 
Roots numerous, elongated, flattened and greenish in colour. Stem and leaves absent. 
Inflorescence pendulous, pubescent, 3 to 15 in. long; the peduncle short and with a few 
minut» distant bracteoles; the raceme many-flowered, lax. Flowers almost sessile, “5 
in. across; Jract membranous, ovate-laneeolate, almost equalling the sub-sessile pubescent 
ovary. Sepals unequal, the dorsal ovate, blunt, concave and over-arching the column; 
the lateral pair ovate-rotund, b'unt, spreading. Petals broader than the sepals, sub-quadrate, 
truncate. Lip parallel to the column and jointed to its long foot, forming a deep 
triangular pouch and having very large erect obliquely oblong blunt glabrous side lobes; 
the apical lobe reduced to a small knob. Column short, thick, its foot longer than itself 
but not so fleshy. Anther dome-shaped, rather depressed, bearing two long decurved 
lateral вебе. Pollinia four, orbicular in outline, unequal, compressed, attached by a 
slender cylindric caudicle to a small thick gland. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 37. 
Thrivspermum luniferum, Reichb. fil. in Gard. Chron. 1868, 786. 
Sikkim, in tropical valleys; in flower during May; Pantling, No, 66. Burma; 
Falconer, Brandis, Kurz. | ' | 
^ Тһе sepals and petals of this are yellow with large brown spots; the lip is also 
yellow with broad bands of brown, and the column has two bands of brown below 
the stigma. In the structure of its flowers this exactly agrees with Sarcochilus falcatus, 
R. Brown, as figured by Fitzgerald in bis Orchids of Australia, part 5. Brown’s 
generic description is 8 very brief‘ one, and contains nothing that does not fit this 
plant, which without hesitation we refer to Surcochilus, as Brown defined it. 
Piave 276.—Sarcochilus luniferus, Benth. A plant in flower and fruit; of natural sise. Fig. 1 
a flower, 2 braet, ovary, column and lip, side view, 3 the lip, 160504 at from the base, the top 
having been cut off, 4 longitudinal section of column and lip, 5 column, front view,” showing the 
anther with its setae and the stigma; 6° the under surface of the anther with the pollinia in situ, 
7 the pollinia, front and Lack views; ай enlarged. 
2. SARCOCHILUS PYGMJEUS, new species. 
Stem 1 in. long, pendulous, Leaves two or three, fleshy, linear-oblong, acuminate, 
their apices entire; length 2:5 in., breadth ‘35 in, Racemez one or two, glabrous, their 
