A CENTURY OF INDIAN ORCHIDS; WJ. D. HOOKER). 47 
Нав.--біккім and Внотач Himataya, alt. 3—5,000 feet. Kuasta and Уукта Hırıs, 
alt. 2—4,000 feet, common. 
Stems 6—19 in. or more, rooting at the base, strongly decurved. Leaves 2—4 in., 
fleshy, very variable in breadth, from terete and deeply channelled to linear and concave, 
always recurved.  Peduncle slender, 2—4 in., terete, green; branches of panicle spreading, 
filiform, flexuous, green with ovate acute bracts at the forks; flowers } in. long, rather 
remote, quite sessile and parallel to the rachis; bracts broadly ovate, much shorter than 
the short deeply grooved ovary with alternate green and red ribs. Sepals all amethystine 
purple or tipped with white; petals purple. Lip white, rather longer than the sepals, 
very variable in shape, sometimes linguiform, nearly flat, at others laterally compressed, 
blade white; spur variable in length, purple, sometimos cylindrie and nearly as long as 
the ovary, at others shorter and conic. Column very short indeed, with two terminal 
subulate processes, Anther broadly ovate; pollinia globose; strap broad, tongue-shsped, 
gland large. Capsule sub-sessile, %--3 in. long, oblong, curved. 
The drawing was made by myself in Sikkim, 2nd August 1848. In another, from the Calcutta 
collection of drawings, the sepals are of a very pale rose purple. | 
Fig. 1, side view of flower ; 2, ovary and lip; 3, lip; 4, top of ovary and column; 6 and 6, pollinia :—a/1 
enlarged, 
PLATE 71. 
SaccoraBIum (Micranthe) PENANGIANUM, Hook. f, 
S. penangianum; caulibus fasciculatis flexuosis, foliis linearibus v. anguste lineari- 
lanceolatis canaliculatis oblique bidentatis, floribus minutis in racemum parvum puber- 
ulum breviter peduneulatum confertis, sepalis lateralibus late ovato-oblongis subacutis 
l-nerviis, dorsali multo minore obtuso obovato, petalis lanceolatis acutis, labello 
supero sepalis multoties longiore in cornu шешуша compressum acutum longe ultra 
lobos producto, disco carnoso, lobis lateralibus rotundatis, terminali minuto ungui- 
forme lateralibus apposito. Hook, f. Fl. Brit. Ind, vi. 57 et in Hook. Ie., Pl. t. 2129B. 
Нав, _РЕМАХС, on the Sonkey river, Curtis, PERAK, Kunstler (in Herb. Сайсий.). 
Stems 4—5 in., apparently tufted, as thick аз а crow-quill, internodes + in. 
Leaves 24—4 by i in. spreading, curv ed, keeled, tip usually acutely notched as 
' it were on one side, bright green. Racemes with the very short peduncle 1—1} in., 
fruiting decurved; bracts subulate; flowers subsessile, ф in. from the dorsal вера! 
to the tip of the lip, pale yellow or whitish with a few specks of red. Lateral 
sepals very oblique, dorsal obovate-oblong rounded at the tip. Petals l-nerved, much 
smaller than the sepals. Zip erect, much larger than the rest of the flower, forming 
a compressed or angled more or less inflated incurved acute horn with the orifice 
and 3 small lobes close under the column, baso contracted. Column very short; 
 rostellum inconspicuous; anther hemispheric ; pollinia globose; strap rather long, 
dilated upwards, gland minute. Capsules $ in. long, sessile, oblong, crowded, reflexed. 
