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2. CamaroTis Mansi, King and Pantling. 
Stems pendulous, slender, 8 to 12 in. long, leafy, sometimes branched, clothed 
with the ridged sheaths of fallen leaves. Leaves coriaceous, linear, acute and very 
minutely bifid at the apex, 3 or 4 in. long. and 3 or 4 in. broad. Racemes straight, rigid, 
shorter than the leaves, extra-axillary; the peduncle very short, stout like the rachis. 
Flowers not crowded, about :25 in. іп diam.; bract membranous, oblong, acute, one-third 
the length of the sessile scurfy ovary. Sepals and petals sub-equal, obovate, narrowed at 
the base, the petals slightly falcate, all reflexed. Zip an elongated sac at right angles 
to the ovary, adnate to the column, its anterior wall cut away at а right angle in 
the upper half; the edges of the mouth with two minute, oblong, obliquely truncate, 
erect side lobes, and between them а minute broad shallow triangular apical lobe; the 
margins of all the lobes slightly incurved; the apical lobe with a flat callus or scale 
immediately within it and projecting into the cavity of the spur; the posterior wall 
of the interior of the spur with a raised ridge, but forming no real septum. Column 
short, stout, twisted; the rostellum sigmoid and beak-like. Anther depressed; pollinia four, 
plano-convex, attached by pairs to the long tapering caudicle; gland small, oblong. 
Sarcochilus Mannii, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 30. 
. Sikkim, valley of the Teesta at an elevation of 1,200 feet; flowering during June 
and July; Pantling No. 173. 
The flowers of this are very pale pink, the sepals, petals and lip being spotted 
near their bases with crimson. 
Puare 317.—Camarotis Manni, King and Pantling. А plant, of natural size. Fig. 1 flower, 
2 bract, ovary, column with its foot, and the lip, З front view of the column with the anther in situ 
and the lip, the anterior wall of the saccate portion of the latter cut away so as to show the ridge 
along the posterior wall, 4 the lateral and apical lobes of the lip as seen from behind, showing the 
upper surface of the callus which lies behind the apical lobe and protrudes into the cavity of the 
spur, 5 lower surface of the anther, 6 apex of the column, showing the pollinia in situ, the cap of 
the anther having been removed, 7 pollinia; ай enlarged. 
55, Sarcanthus, Lindl. 
Epiphytes, without pseudo-bulbs. Séems usually elongate. Leaves fleshy, terete or 
flat. Inflorescence extra-axillary, racemose or paniculate. Sepals sub-equal, all spreading 
or reflexed, or the dorsal concave and connivent over the column. Petals smaller than 
the sepals, spreading. Lip adnate to the base of the column or of its foot, rarely 
jointed; the base with an infundibuliform spur sometimes dilated at the apex, the 
interior with a callus both on the anterior and the posterior wall, and always divided 
into two lateral compartments by a vertical antero-posterior septum; lateral lobes small, 
more or less triangular and acute; apical lobe small, triangular or hastate. Column short, 
stout, often with a foot as long as or longer than itself. Anther depressed; pollinia 
two, bifid. Species about 35, eastern tropical Asia. | 
Leaves terete. 
Lip jointed to the foot of the column . . ‚л w € ote 7. 2 8, apposdieulatw. 
Lip adnate to the broad foot of the AE ООО eee ы E O ormi. 
Leaves flat. 
Leaves 8 to 12 in. long; flowers in panicles; foot of column very short. 3. 8. pallidus. 
Leaves 29:5 to 4 in. long; flowers in racemes, column with no foot . . 4. $. secundus. 
