CAMAROTIS, 237 
2. STEREOCHILUS HIRTUS, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. III, 58. 
Siem erect, stout, clothed with the sheaths of the leaves. Leaves narrowly oblong, 
rigid, fleshy, almost terete, narrowed towards the minutely bifid apex, widest at 
the base and jointed to the short rugulose sheaths; length 3 to 5 in., breadth `5 in. 
Racemes axillary, decurved, longer than the leaves; the peduncle and rachis covered with 
short coarse glandular hairs; raceme sparsely flowered; floral bract minute, ovate, acute, 
hairy like the rachis and ovary. Flowers ‘75 in. across, glabrous. Sepals spreading, 
oblong-lanceolate, blunt. Petals oblong, sub-spathulate, the apices blunt and crenate- 
serrate. Тір adnate to the base of the column, consisting of a wide compressed 
conical sac adpressed to the ovary, with triangular converging side lobes and with 
two large calli (one of them bilobed) at the mouth of its oblong cavity and just below 
the column; the limb oblong-ovate, blunt, concave. Column dilated at the base, with 
no foot; rostellum very large, curving downward to near the middle of the column. 
Anther depressed, with a very long beak; pollinia four, in two pairs, broadly ovoid, 
attached by their bases to a long thin flat caudicle ending in a small gland. Sarcanthus 
hirtus, Benth. in Gen. Plant. ІП, 576; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 35. 
Sikkim, at Tendong, elevation 6,000 feet; in flower in June; Pantling No. 157. 
Khasia Hills, elevation 5,000 feet; Hooker and Thomson. Tenasserim; Parish. 
The flowers of this are glabrous; the sepals and petals are pink, the lip white 
and pink, the column white and the anther purple. After the removal of the pollen- 
masses from the anther, the caudicle twists so that the pollinia acquire an oblique 
direction. This arrangement is no doubt to facilitate contact with the stigma when 
an insect to which the viscid disc has adhered visits another flower. Without such 
twisting, the pollinia would be prevented from reaching its stigma by the long stout 
rostellum which hangs down in front of that organ. 
Prate 315.—Stereochilus hirtus, Lindl. A plant. Fig. 8 transverse section of a leaf, of natural 
aize. Fig. 1 a flower, 2 bract, stalked ovary, column and lip, 3 vertical section of ovary, column and 
lip, 4 anther from below, 5 pollinia in situ, the cap of the anther having been removed, 6 pollinia 
after removal, 7 section of spur between the calli and the tip; ай enlarged. Notz.—Fig. 7 із erroneous 
in showing the partition in the spur as continuous; it really consists of two approximated flat calli. 
54, Camarotis, Lindl. 
Epiphytal. Stem elongate, bearing distant coriaceous keeled leaves obliquely bifid at 
the apex. Racemes extra-axillary, many-flowered, lax. Sepals and petals spreading or 
reflexed, sub-equal. Lip sessile on the column, consisting of a thick-walled sac, the cavity 
narrowed by two calli and divided by a septum completely or partially into two cham- 
bers; side lobes small, obscure; the apical lobe small, thick, concave and entire or almost 
obsolete. Column twisted, without a foot; rostellum very long, narrow, subulate, curved, 
twisted to one side. Anther dorsal, depressed; pollimia four, in pairs, attached by their 
bases to a very long narrow caudicle tapering to a minute gland. Species four; Indian 
and one from the Philippines. 
The other three species belonging to this genus are the Indian C. purpurea, Lindl. (Ærides 
rostratum, Roxb.) ; C. pallida, Lindl. (ZErides pallidum, Roxb.) ; and C. Philippensis, Lindl. 
The first appearance of the genus Camarotis was in Wallich's Catalogue, in which he issued, under 
the number 7329 and the name OC. purpurea, Lindl, the plant which Roxburgh had previously named 
