298 ORCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM-HIMALAYA. 
surface free from hairs or calli, side lobes absent; apical lobe fleshy, semi-circular, entire, 
smooth, its margins deflexed, with two blunt conical calli at its base. Column broad; the 
rostellum short, broad, Anther sub-quadrate, with a short beak in front; pollinia two, 
CR with a lateral shoulder; caudicle long, slender, cylindric; gland elongate, bifid. 
Capsule fusiform, "65 in. long. Reichb. fil. in Ot. Hamb., 43; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 
VI, 64; in Ann. Bot. Gard. Cale. V, 49, t. 73 (in part). 
Sikkim, common at elevations of 6,000 to 8,000 feet; in flower during March, April 
and May; Gamble No. 8075; Kurz; Griffith (Kew Distrib. No. 5211); Pantling No. 182. 
Manipur; Watt No. 6338. 
The flowers of this are green of various shades, marked with irregular brown 
spots, the apical lobe of the lip being pale yellow. This grows along with S. pseudo- 
distichum, but flowers at a different season, The two have hitherto been confused 
under the name of this. The leaves are sometimes speckled with brown. 
Ргатв 303.—Saccolabium distichum, Lindl, А plant, of natural size. Fig. 1 flower, 2 тас, ovary, 
column with anther in situ, and lip іп profile, 3 section of column and lip, 4 column and anther, 
front view, 5 apex of ovary with pollinia i» situ, the cap of the anther having been removed, 
6 pollinia; all enlarged. 
15. SaccoLAPIUM AFFINE, new species. 
Siem and leaves as in 8. distichum, Lindl. and 8. pseudo-distichum, King and 
Pantling. Peduncle slender, *75 in. long, bearing two or three flowers in a short raceme. 
Flowers ‘3 in. across. Floral bract ovate, acute, much shorter than the stalked ovary. 
Sepals and petals sub-equal, ovate-elliptic, obtuse, spreading, except the concave incurved 
dorsal sepal. Lip as long as the sepals, adnate to the base of the column, the 
base with a wide dorsally compressed sub-acute conical sac almost at right angles to 
the ovary, smooth on the inner surface, without calli, bifid at the apex; side lobes | 
very narrow; apical lobe decurved, broadly triangular, sub-acute, its margins erose near 
the base, its upper surface with two thick mesial ridges from base to apex. Column 
and pollinia as in 8. distichum. 
Sikkim, above Pemiongtsi, elevation 8,000 feet; in flower T: June; Panthng 
No. 444. 
The colour of the sepals and petals is green flushed with brown; that of - lip 
is yellowish. 
This comes very near 8. distichum and 8. pseudo-distichum, and ought possibly 
to be treated as a variety rather than as a species. From both the plants just 
mentioned it differs by its dorsally compressed conical bifid sac, and by the broad 
triangular ridged apical lobe of its lip. The original specimen of this was collected 
on the western frontier of Sikkim, and for a long time no other Specimen was 
obtained. Recently, however, plants have been obtained from eastern Рани The 
characters in both western and eastern specimens are constant. 
Prate 304.— Saccolabium affine, King and Pantling. A plant, of natural size. Fig. 1 а flower, 
2 bract, stalked ovary, column with anther іп situ, and lip, profile view, 8 vertical section of the 
lip, 4 apex of the column with the anther in situ, 5 P anther from below, 6 — вй 
enlarged. k ; ; 
