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PLATE 69. 
SaccoLABIUM (Micranthw) 1wcoNsPICUUM, Hook. f. 
S. inconsipeuum; caulibus intricatim coespitosis teretibus ramosis, foliis 2—3-pollicaribus 
funciformibus teretibus obtusis, floribus parvis pallidis breviter pedicellatis pedunculo 
perbrevi fasciculatis, sepalis petalisque late ovatis v. ovato-oblongis apicibus recurvis 
subacutis, labeli hypochilio hemispherico marginibus integerrimi, epichilio margine 
hypochilii sessili triangulari-ovato retuso v. emarginato 7 inconspicuo. Hook. f. Fl. Brit. 
Ind. vi. 56. Cymbidium inconspicuum, Wall. mss. 
Нав,--АвчАм, Jenkins (Le. in Herb. Caleutt). 
Stems 6—8 in., as thick as a duck’s quill, terete, flexuous, red-brown, striate, rooting 
at the base only, probably forming pendulous interlaced tufts; internodes about 3 in. Leaves 
about as thick as the stems, straight or slightly curved, dark green. Flowers 4 in. diam., 
in almost sessile supra-axillary tufts of 6—8; pedicel with ovary 4-6 in., curved. Sepals 
and petals greenish white. Lip large for the size of the flower, with a cup-shaped truly 
hemispheric hypochil, apparently fleshy, with no indication of lateral lobes, green, 
purplish at the base, margins slightly everted; epichil greenish white, as broad as the 
hypochil, flat, without ridges, warts, or nerves. Column very stout indeed, purple, clinan- 
drium quite entire; anther broad, flattish, 2-celled, golden yellow; pollinia globose; 
strap short, rather slender, gland ovate. 
A remarkable species, quite unlike any other, of which there is an excellent drawing (reproduced 
here) in the Calcutta Herbarium, executed under Wallich’s superintendence, but of which I can find no 
specimen in his Herbarium, nor have I seen it in any other. The specimen figured is only a portion of 
that in the original, In the shape of the lip, and especially the hemispheric hypochil, it precisely 
accords with that of the section Calecolaria, but it resembles in habit no species of that group in 
foliage and inflorescence, and further differs in the perfectly smooth epichil. The same characters 
remove it from the section Acampe. In the Flora of British India I doubtfully referred it to Saccolabium ; 
and after reviewing the Cymbidiee, I see no possibility of referring it to any other genus. 
The drawing is inscribed in Wallich’s handwriting, “90 Cymbidium inconspicuum, Wall, Capt. 
Jenkins, from Lower Assam.” ' | | 
Fig. 1, fower; 2, the same with the sepals and petals displaced ; 3 and & anther; 5 pollinium :—ad/ 
enlarged. : i | 
PLATE 70. 
SACCOLABIUM (Micranthe) GEMMATUM, Lindi, 
S. gemmatum ; caule elongato flexuoso folioso, foliis linearibus decurvatis semiteretibus 
apicibus 2—3 dentatis, racemis elongatis gracilimis paniculatim ramosis multifloris, flori- 
bus minutis amethystinis v. albis purpureo pictis secus ramos paniculae sessilibus iisque 
= parallelis fere clausis, sepalis ovato-oblongis obtusis concavis papillosis, petalis obovatis 
labello oblongo v. obovato-oblongo subcymbiforme carnoso crenulato, lobis Бъд ли 
_ obscuris, calcare sepalis equilongo cylindrico obtuso. Lindl, in Bot. Reg. 1838, Misc. 50; 
b Walp. Ann. vi. 885; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 55 (errore gemminatum). 
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