48 ANNALS OF ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
A very peculiar little species, from the minute reversed erect flowers, and minute 
lobes of the lip. The analyses were made by me from dried Penang specimens, and 
they are, I hope, fairly accurate. 
The drawing of the whole plant is from Perak specimens sent by Kunstler which “flowered in 
the Rl. Bot. Garden, Calcutta, 14-7-81." 
Fig. 1, flower; 2, dorsal and 3, lateral sepals; 4, petal; 5, ovary, lip and column; 6, column and upper part of 
lip; 7, column; 8, anther including pollinia; 9, rostellum; 10 pollinia:—all greatly enlarged. 
PLATE 72. 
SaccoLABIUM (Micranthe) LANATUM, Hook. کر‎ 
S. lanatum; caule brevi robusto, folis lineari-oblongis v. breviter loriformibus 
obtuse 2-lobis profunde .canaliculatis crasse coriaceis, pedunculo foliis longiore et spica 
elongata densiflora pendula tomentosis v. lanatis, bracteis magnis imbricatis ovatis 
acuminatis flores velantibus caducis, sepalis lateralibus late ovatis, dorsali elliptico- 
oblongo, petalis obovato-oblongis, labello basi saecato sepalis paullo longiore lobis 
lateralibus triangulari-ovatis integris v. unidentatis terminali ovato 2-cuspidato, disco 
callo pubescente instructo. Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 60. Cleisostoma lanatum, Lindi. 
in Journ. Hort. Soc. iv. 264; Walp. Ann. vi. 889. 
11۵۸8. TENaASsERIM; at Moulmein, Parish, Scott. 
Stem 1—2 in. as stout аз a swan's quill. Leaves 3—4 by 1—14 in., distichous, 
spreading, dark green, lobes equal rounded, sinus acute. Peduncle 3—6 in., flexuous, 
pale green, simple or branched; sheaths tubular, appressed; spike 4—7 in. long, young, 
clothed with densely imbricating long-pointed pale green tomentose bracts that com- 
pletely conceal the flowers, and are very caducous; flowers 4 in. diam., pale green, 
striped with dull purple. Sepals pubescent, tips of lateral compressed and almost 
winged at the back; petals ciliate. Lip with the side-lobes ciliate and usually 
notched on the lower margin; tips of mid-lobe divaricate and recurved; sac 
hemispheric with a pubescent ridge encircling the mouth within; the pubescent callus 
of the disc descending into the sac for a short way. Column not long, compressed 
upwards laterally; rostellum not prominent. Anther nearly flat, membranous, lanceolate 
from a broad 2-lobed base; pollinia small, globose, seated one in the terminal sinus 
of each arm of the long forked strap, which is dilated upward from a very 
slender base, and then forks, each arm being flat and broader than its ро шн; ; 
gland small, oblong or ovate-lanceolate. | 
A very remarkable plant, not satisfactorily referable to any genus, though, as it appears to me, 
technically a Saccolabium. The woolly peduncle and spike and the large deciduous bracts concealing 
the flowers are unlike any of its congeners or their allies, Lindley placed it in Cleisostoma, to 
which genus it seems allied in the pubescent ring encircling the mouth of the sac of the lip, but 
. I find no trace of the callus or sac underneath the column which is characteristic of Cletsostoma. 
| : _ The forked strap of the pollinia is very singular. The drawing here reproduced is inscribed “ Burma, 
= Soott, June 1861.” 
E E Ша 2, side view of سد‎ ші m 3, section of lip; 4 and 5, anther; 6 pollinia :--а/? enlarged. 
