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shorter, flat. Lip 2 as long as the sepals, with the claw nearly as long as the body, 
and about as long as the side arms, margined with red, perforated as it were from the 
insertion of the claw to the globose sac or spur, above which is the short caruncled 
midlobe or epichil. Column short, rostellum very short, acute; anther very shortly 
beaked; pollinia globose; strap subspathulate, gland narrow. 
There are several drawings of this beautiful species in the Calcutta collection, made from specimens 
that had flowered in the Royal Garden. But none are satisfactory as to the analysis of the lip 
especially. I have seen no specimens except some detached flowers in a pocket attached to the drawing ` 
here reproduced ; as to which it is difficult to wholly reconcile their lips with those in the drawing, though 
I think the latter are in the main accurate. The fact is that the distortion of the lip when dried is so 
great that I think it better to withhold any further attempt at comparing it with that of the drawing 
further than to observe that in Fig. 2 the circular markings at the top of the claw represent caruncles, 
and the terminal globose body, the spur, over which rises the epichil. The drawing is made from 
a plant that flowered in the Calcutta Garden in May 1888, 
` Fig. 1, side view of flower; 2, ditto with sepals and petals displaced ; 3, 4 and б, anther; 6, pollinia:—all enlarged 
PLATE 65. 
SARCOCHILUS CLADOSTACHYS, ‚Hook. f. 
S. cladesiachys; caule brevi subrobusto, foliis loriformibus bifidis recurvis, 
pedunculis 2—3 infrafoliaceis foliis multoties brevioribus clavellatis paucifloris, floribus 
majusculis albidis, labello purpureo picto, sepalis petalisque augustioribus elliptico-lanceolatis 
acuminatis, labello sepalis breviore angusto a latere compresso longo unguiculato ungue 
stipitiforme, hypochilii lobis lateralibus oblongis obtusis, epichilio brevi 2-fido hypochilio 
imposito lobis quadratis retusis calcare globoso, v. (si velis epichilio 3-lobo lobis lateralibus 
quadratis intermedio globoso). Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 95. 
HAB.— PERAK (Ге. Scortechini). Maraya, Kunstler. 
Stem about an inch long, as thick as the little finger. Ben 6—12 ГА, E: bos يس‎ 7 
or pendulous, pale green, flat, keeled, Peduncies 1—2 in., flexuous, nearly ually 
1 kakî upward to the obtuse tip; bracts ovate, acute; pedicel with ovary } inch; 
flowers 1i inch diam,, not quite white, rather eream-coloured, perianth spreading, but not 
widely, the segments narrow, very finely acuminate. Zip about $ shorter than the sepals, 
‘slightly incurved; claws spotted with purple, as is the spur (or midlobe of the epichil); 
lobes of the hypochil pale purple, Column rather short, rostellum hardly beaked ; anther 
acute in front; pollinia globose. 
sted from the drawing, for I have seen no specimens. It is evidently closely allied to 8. aureus, 
but Жу وا‎ robust plant, with’ less rigid leaves, much shorter clavellate peduncles, narrower 
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in this the epichil is developed into two erect lobes. The drawing bears the inscription “Malaya 
НН. Kunstler, Fld. Aug. 1887, flowers lasted only two days. Again May 1888, fig, again only two 
days. 6. King" i 
| Fig. 1, flower ; 2, the same, with sepals and petals removed; 8, lip; 4 and 6, anther; 6, pollinia;—a/ of the 
Axx. Вот. Вот. GARD. Cito, "Vor. V. 
