SACCOLABIUM. 991 
short, stout and sheathed at the base, the flowering rachis slender. Flowers "65 in. in 
diam. vertically; floral bract very minute, the stalked ovary about '4 in. long. Sepals 
and petals sub-equal, spreading, obovate, blunt. Zip with a spur longer than the sepals, 
flexuose, cylindric, blunt, sometimes inflated at the bend; side lobes none; apical lobe 
linear-oblong, sub-acute, entire, its tip upturned. Column short, stout. Anther dome- 
shaped, shortly beaked in front; ро іа two, globose, divaricate; caudicle strap-shaped, 
its margins in-folding after removal from the column; gland oblong-quadrate. Capsule 
sub-clavate, 1 in. long. Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ПІ, 35 (exel. syn.); Paxt. Mag. Bot. 
ХШ, t. 49; Bot. Mag., t. 5595; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 64. rides ampullaceum, 
Roxb. Fl. Ind. III, 476. 
Sikkim, common at elevations of 1,000 to 3,000 feet; Pantling, No. 259. Westward 
to Nepal; eastward and southward to Sylhet, Munipur, Diii, Khasia Hills; in flower 
during March and April. 
All the parts of the flower except the pollinia are coloured pink of various shades, 
and the leaves are invariably mottled with brown; the pollinia are deep purple. In Sikkim 
all specimens have the spur of the lip flexuose, not straight. This is very closely ,allied 
to S. eurvifolium, Lindl., which has, however, orange-scarlet flowers and longer narrower 
leaves. А plant of this collected in Assam by Dr. G. Watt, c.rr., had brick-red flowers, 
but their structure in no way differed from those of the plant here figured. 
PLATE 293.—Saccolabium ampullaceum, Lindl. A plant, of natural size. Fig. 1 a flower, 2 bratt, 
stalked ovary, column with anther іп situ and lip, seen from the side, З section of the foregoing, 
4 under surface of empty anther, 5 pollinia as they rest on the column prior to removal, 6 the same 
after removal; all enlarged. 
5. SaccoLABIUM Ромпло, Reichb. fil. in Walp. Ann. VI, 886; Gard. 
Olio 1875, II, 98. 
Siem very short, ы Leaves two or three, linear-oblanceolate, slightly faleate, 
the acute apex minutely and obliquely bifid; length 1:5 to 3:5 in., breadth “4 to “б in. 
Inflorescence about as long as the leaves; the peduncle slender, доа than the many- 
flowered raceme, with a tubular sheath about the middle; rachis of raceme stout. Flowers 
:9 in. long; floral bract minute, ovate, acute. Sepals unequal; the dorsal oblanceolate- 
oblong, obtuse, concave, overhanging the column; the lateral pair spreading, elliptic, 
obtuse. Petals linear-oblanceolate, obtuse, toothed at one side, smaller than the sepals. 
Base of lip with a long tapering spur exceeding the ovary and curving forwards; the 
side lobes at the mouth of the spur small, short, rounded; the apical lobe broadly 
triangular, acute, much decurved. Column stout, not winged. Anther much depressed, 
shortly beaked. Pollinia obovoid, attached by a stout tapering caudicle to a small 
narrow gland. Capsule cylindric, tapering at the base, ribbed, 8 in. long. Hook. fil. 
Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 56. Ж. discolor, Reichb. fil. Ot. Hamb., 42. 8. pusillum, Lindl. in 
Journ. Linn. Soc. ІП, 36 (not of Blume). Cceoclades pusilla, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7332; 
Gen. and Spec. Orch., 237. 
Sikkim, at elevations of about 1,500 feet ; in flower during April; Pantling, No. 112. 
Sylhet ; Wallich. 
The flowers are cream-coloured with a dash of purple at the entrance of the spur 
and at the base of the apical lobe of the lip, the column being brownish pink. On 
