SACCOLABIUM. 219° 
Apical lobe of lip small, semi-circular or broadly oblong, entire, 
glabrous, without calli or with small calli or ridges; caudicle of 
pollinia slender; flowers in short racemes, stems very slender, 
leaves flat with setulose apices. 
Apical lobe of lip triangular. 
Apical lobe with two small conical calli near its base — . 1). 8. distichum. 
. Apical lobe with two mesial ridges . . . . . . . . 15. 8. affine. 
Apical lobe of lip broadly cordate, blunt, without calli or 
ТИНЕ EGO ОШО И салы малы ws Ла osos 26 б, petudoditiaum., 
Spur with two calli about the middle and a small horizontal plate or septum 
near the mouth . « «o». о 6 on ASS а оао о 17, В, trichromum. ` 
1. SACCOLABIUM PAPILLOSUM, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1552 (excl. syn.). 
Stems erect, rigid, clustered, ‘35 in. thick, bearing many sub-horizontal leaves, 
sometimes branched. Leaves coriaceous, curved, conduplicate, the apex truncate or 
obliquely notched; length 3 to 4 in., breadth (when flattened out) "6 to ‘8 in. Peduncle 
leaf-opposed, about “5 in. long, bearing a sub-corymbose 4- to 8-flowered raceme. Flowers 
“95 in. across; floral bract triangular. Sepals sub-equal, oblong, sub-acute,: spreading. 
Petals narrower than the sepals, sub-spathulate. Lip slightly longer ‘than the sepals : 
adnate to the base of the column, its base with a cylindrie, slightly tapering spur half 
as long as the ovary and sub-parallel to it, hairy within; side lobes попе ; apical lobe 
decurved, ovate-oblong, blunt, erenate, the upper surface transversely rugulose. Column 
short. Aniher broadly conical; pollinia two, deeply bipartite, sub-ovoid; caudicle elongate, 
tapering downwards to the small oblong-quadrate gland. Capsule fusiform, ridged, 
125 in. long. Lindl. Gen. and Spec, Orch. 222; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 63. 
S. carinatum, Griff. Notul ІП, 354, Acampe papillosa, Lindl. Fol. Orch. 2; Walp. 
Ann. VI, 873. | 
Sikkim, at low elevations; in flower from October to January; Pantling, No. 243. 
Khasia, Assam, Chittagong, the Bengal Sunderbans, and Burma. 
In Sikkim the sepals and petals of this are yellow with brown bars, the spur of 
the lip is pale yellow, and the apical lobe is white with transverse pale purple 
Prare 290.—Saccolabium papillosum, Lindl. A plant, of natural size. Fig. 1а flower, 2 bract, 
stalked ovary, column with anther in situ and lip, in profile, 3 section of preceding, 4 under surface 
of empty anther, 5 pollinia; ай enlarged. : 
9. SaccoLABIUM OCHRACEUM, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1842, Misc. 2. 
Stem stout, 1 to 3 feet long, bearing numerous sub-horizontal leaves. Leaves fleshy, 
rigid, keeled, oblong; the apex blunt and unequally bifid, the base not contracted at the 
junction with the sheath; length 6 to 9 in., breadth 1 to 1:3 in. JPanicies leaf-opposed, 
nearly erect, slender, rigid, twice as long as the leaves; the branches numerous, 
9. to 6-flowered Flowers “4 in. across; floral bract minute, broadly triangular; ovary 
sessile, sparsely pubescent, Sepals unequal, the dorsal broadly oblanceolate, blunt; the 
lateral pair smaller, oblong, sub-falcate, blunt. Petals as long as the sepals, spathulate, 
Lip shorter than the sepals and petals, the base with a long cylindric spur nearly 
as long аз the ovary and parallel with it, hairy within; the side lobes, near the base 
Axx. Ror: Bor. Gard., Carccrra, Vor. VIII. 
