42 ANNALS OF ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA, 
PLATE 6з. 
 SamcocuILUs (Pieroceras) BRACHYGLOTTIS, Hook f. 
S. brachyglottis; caule brevi, folis decurvis elongato-oblanceolatis apice acuminatis 
integris v. bicuspidatis, scapo brevi paucifloro, floribus albis, sepalis lanceolatis acutis 
dorso infra apicem corniculato, petalis oblongo-obovatis obtusis, labello parvo sessili a latere 
valde compresso subcuneato truncato obtuso 2-lobo, lobo superiore apicem labelli efficiente 
inferiore in saccum v. calear producto, columna brevi crassa, rostello erecto. Hook. کر‎ 
Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 34. | 
Нав. --Ревак, King’s Collector. 
Stem rather slender. Leaves not crowded, 4—8 by 1-11 in., pale green, keeled beneath, 
contracted at the base almost into a petiole. Scape 1 in., rather stout, green ; bracts 
minute, broad, persistent; pedicels with ovary $ in.; flowers 2 in. diam. Sepals 
and petals faintly tinged with pink. Lip not half the length of the sepals, inserted by a 
narrow base to the base of the column, very much compressed laterally, nearly as deep 
as long, hollow, with a narrow slit along the top, produced into a rounded boss or spur 
below the solid obtuse tip. Column with the clinandrium almost. dorsal, and the 
rostellum (at length 2-fid.) hence suberect. Anther depressed, beaked; pollinia globose, 
strap narrow, gland not large. i ' 
А very well marked species both in habit, leaf, and flowers. Described from the drawing and detached 
flowers accompanying it. It was made from a specimen sent by Kunstler to the Caleutta Botanic 
Garden, which flowered there, 7th October 1884. 
Fig. 1, flower; 2, column and lip; 3, column and lip seen from above; 4, vertical section of lip; 5, side view of 
column and anther; 6, front view of column ; 7 and 8, anther; 9, pollinia :—al/ enlarged. 
PLATE 64. 
ue SARCOCHILU8 AUREUS, Hook. f. 
S. aureus; caule brevi robusto superne folioso, foliis patentibus lineari-oblongis v. 
loriformibus crasse coriaciis 2-fidis, pedunculis plurimis infra-foliaceis foliis brevioribus 
robustis paucifloris, floribus magnis aureis, sepalis basi column:e insertis oblongo-lanceolatis 
acuminatis petalisque angustioribus conniventibus, labello parvo а latere compresso longe 
unguiculato, ungue stipitiforme striata apicem versus carunculata, hypochilii crassiusculi 
lobis lateralibus erectis euneato-faleatis obovatisve, disco carunculato saeco subdidymo 
instructo, epichilio parvo erecto 2-lobo, sacco hypochilo quasi imposito. Hook f. Fl. Brit. 
Ind. vi. 95. 
Нав.--Ревак, King’s Collector. 
| Stem 3—5 in. as thick as the little finger, clothed with the short, compressed pale 
green fleshy leaf-sheaths, and rooting. Leaves 4—10 by 11—2 in., keeled, rigid, pale 
_ green, broadly sessile on the sheaths, narrowed to the acute terminal lobes. сарез. from 
5. the lower part of the stem below the leaves, from the old but still green lower sheaths. 
1 — — 2-7 in. long, rather thickened іп the rachis, green with scattered short, green, ovate-acute 
ets; pedicel with ovary 1—3 in, Sepals 1 in., concave; petals nearly as long or 
