52 ANNALS OF ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
spur slightly incurved, with a very large 2-lobed compressed caruncle under the column 
within, and a vertical plate descending from the base of the midlobe to below the 
middle of the spur, dividing the base of the latter into two parallel cells; the upper 
part of this plate fits into the cleft of the 2-lobed сагапфе. Column very stout, 
rostellum subulate. Anther broad, flat, suddenly contracted in front into a long subu- 
late beak; pollinia large, globose, cleft; strap slender, gland minute. Capsule 4-3 in. 
ellipsoid or oblong, ribs not prominent. 
A little known plant, referred to by Lindley in his paper on Indian orchids in the Journal of 
the Linnæan Society (iii, 39) under 8. peninsularis as possibly that plant; to which it is indeed closely 
allied, but S. peninsularis differs in the ribbed stem and much smaller flowers. 
The drawing here reproduced is inscribed “Sarcanthus oxypyhllus, Wall.” in Wallich’s hand- 
writing; to which is added “ Duphla Hills, Mr. Lister, fld. June 1875." 
Fig. 1, flower; 2, column and lip; 3, section of lip; 4, anther; 6, pollinia:—aU enlarged. 
PLATE 78. 
SARCANTHUS INSECTIFER, Reichb. f. 
S. insectifer; caule robusto compresso elongato radicante folioso, foliis brevibus dis- 
tichis oblongis 2-lobis «crasse coriaceis amplexicaulibus, spicis subsessilibus brevibus 
paucifloris sepalis late oblongis petalisque obovato-oblongis obtusis patentibus rubro 
strietis, labelli calcare brevi conico-infundibulari, lobis lateralibus brevissimis rotundatis, 
terminali triangulari-ovato carnoso roseo, columna brevissima apice 2-aristata aristis recur- 
vis. Reichb. f. in Bot. Zeit. 1857, 159; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 68. 
Нав.--Венав, J. D. Н.  Cacuam, Mann. Снитасоче (Ге. in. Hort. Calcutta). 
'TENASSERIM, Parish. | 
. Stem scandent, as thick as a swan's quill or less, green. Leaves 2—11 by 1-2 
in many and sometimes almost imbricating, deeply channelled, nerveless, terminal 
lobes unequal with sometimes an interposed mucro. Spikes 3 in., subsessile; bracts 
minute, deciduous ; ovary short; flowers $ in. diam. Sepals and petals greenish yellow, 
with red stripes. Zip rather longer than the sepals; terminal lobe as long and as 
broad as the spur, bright rose-coloured or purplish, sometimes margined with white; spur 
with a large 2-fid eallus below the column within, semiseptate by a plate descending 
| from the base of the midlobe. Column very stout, clinandrium horizontal or reclinate, 
with the two awns from the sides of the column in front arched over it; rostellum 
. obscure. Anther flat, subquadrate, truncate or broadly retuse in front; pollinia large, 
globose ; strap very short and broad; gland transverse. 
" A ; remarkable and exceptionally bright-flowered species, of which I have seen several drawings 
. displaying a good deal of variation in the colour of the flowers. That here reproduced (for the 
~ Original is в full-sized folio) is inscribed “Saccolab. carinatum, 
Hot Sprin ear Hat nd 
` seta кооп d Hill"—the latter is one of U the Chittagong Hills. E m Ды = 
2. 22 Fig 1, side and 2, front view of flower ; 3, column; 4 and 5, anther; 6, pollinia, 
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