A CENTURY OF INDIAN ORCHIDS ; (J. D. HOOKER). al 
in the size of the lateral lobes. Column incurved; anther broadly ovate, acute; pollinia 
globose or ovoid; strap short, fat; gland small. 
There is considerable discrepancy in the analyses made from the original dried specimen collected by 
Kurz’ and Reichenbach’s description and my analysis of some detached flowers which accompanied 
the drawing here reproduced. In the latter the length of the foot of the column, and the insertion along it 
of the lateral sepals (fig. 1), would indicate that the species should be referred to section VI, according 
to the arrangement of the species given in the Flora of British India. Much better specimens are 
required to arrive at a satisfactory knowledge of the lip, which in one flower when spread out took 
the form of figure 2, being simply cuneiform. Тһе drawing was made under Mr. Brace’s directions 
from a plant that was brought from the Andaman Isds. by a native collector (Abdulla), and which 
flowered in the Calcutta Botanic Garden, 5-5-84. 
Fig. 1, portion of lateral sepal, a petal, lip and column; 2, lip (imperfect Р) from a dried flower; 3, column; 4, 
anther; 5, pollinia :—a4 enlarged. 
PLATE 62, 
` SancocHILUS (Pteroceras) sTENOGLOTTIS, Hook. f. 
S. stenoglottis; caule brevi robusto, foliis elongatis late loriformibus decurvis sub- 
bilobis v. emarginatis, scapis deflexis v. pendulis foliis multo brevioribus apices versus 
plurifloris, bracteis ovatis rufis, floribus stramineis v. fere albis, sepalis oblongis obtusis, 
petalis angustioribus lineari-oblongis acutis, labello breviter unguiculato a latere valde ` 
compresso subcymbiforme marginibus undulatis basi breviter 2-auriculato, in appendicem 
v. calcar claviforme rectum obtusum producto, columna basi constrieta anguste alata, 
rostello decurvo. Hook f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 34. 
Нав.--Ревак? Scortechini. DISTRIB. Sumatra, 
Stem 1—9 in., as thick as the thumb, Leaves many, apparently flaccid, 6—12 by 11—29 
in. pale green, nearly flat; sheaths very short and broad, Scopes 3—4 in., dark purple or 
red-brown, sheathed with a few ‘small acute bracts; rachis of many-fld. raceme 1—1 in., 
rather thickened (or flattened ?) subserrate from the peristent bracts (as in sect, Fornicaria) ; 
pedicels with ovary % in., slender. Flowers about }—§ in. diam., white with a faint 
yellow tinge and.a few red markings towards the base of the perianth, Sepals and petals 
many-nerved. Lip very singular, longer than the sepals, white, strongly laterally 
compressed, curved like a boat, forming a long fleshy narrow cup with undulate lips 
running half way .along the upper margin, and then contracting into a club-shaped 
terminal appendage, which I take to be a modified spur or вас, and which, instead of 
being inserted beneath the body of the lip, is in a straight line with the latter, 
Anther shortly beaked, membranous ; pollinia oblong; strap spathulate; gland small. 
It is not possible to describe the lips of Saroochili so as to convey any tolernble idea of their 
form and structure, and to draw them with accuracy is very difficult from living specimens, and 
impracticable from dried ones. The drawing of the plant here reproduced was inscribed “Malaya 
Kunstler Fld. in H. B. С. 4-8-83. Sumatra Orchid." The analyses were made by myself from detached 
flowers in a pocket attached to the drawing. | 
` Fig. 1, dorsal, and 2, lateral sepals ; 3, petal ; 4, side view of colama and lip; 6, front view of lip; 6, anther; 7 
polliniom الو‎ enlargeds i: | | : я 
Axx. Roy. Вот. Garp. Carc., Vou. V. 
