54 ANNALS OF ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
pedicels with ovary i in., flower i in. diam. Sepals and petals widely spreading, 
thick, greenish yellow, with a broad streaked red purple band within the border, or 
the streaks may be replaced by spots. .L/p about as long as the sepals, yellow spotted 
from the middie to the base of the spur; dorsal callus retuse. Column very short, 
stout; clinandrium horizontal, angles obtuse; rostellum short; anther flat, ovate, acuminate; 
pollinia. globose, strap slender, gland medium-sized. 
Closely allied to C. Zatifolium, Lindl, a common species in the Malayan Peninsula, which differs 
in the much broader leaves, stouter stem and peduncles, smaller flower, and in having : a reniform 
esruncled midlobe of the lip. 
The drawing of. С. апдататсит is inscribed “Sarcanthus of Andamans №. 1. Introd. 1867, fld. in 
Н. B. C., April 1868.” 
Fig. 1, beri 2, the same with the isal n diad: 3, column and lip, the latter bisected 
4,anther б, pollinia :—all enlarged. 
PLATE 81. 
CLEISOSTOMA RAMOSUM, Hook. f. 
C, ramosum; caule breve, foliis anguste loriformibus oblique 2-lobis, panicula gracili 
erecta breviter pedunculata, ranis. paucis paucifloris patentibus, floribus parvis breviter 
pedieellatis, sepalis petalisque obovatis obtusis rufo-fuscis albo viridive marginatis, labelli 
lobis lateralibus parvis ovatis terminali triangulari-ovato v. rotundato et subtrilobo, 
disco basique :columnæ pubescentibus, calcare uncinato incurvo, Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 
72. Saccolabium ramosum, Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orchid, 224. S. flexuosum, Lindl. in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. ii. 36. Occeocladus flexuosa, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. n. 7333 et Gen. and Sp. 
Orchid. 236. Aerides ramosum, Wall. mss. 
Нав.--біккім Hımaraya, in hot valleys, J. D. H. Lower BENGAL, in the Sunderbuns, 
Wallich, Clarke. Burma, on the Attran river, Wallich. Мопімкіз, Parish. 
Stem 1—3 in., hardly as thick as a goose-quill. Leaves few, 3—5 by 1—1 in. copending 
and recurved, terminal lobes rounded. . Peduncle 1—9 in., green; j panicle i51 in., branches 
rather distant, spreading; bracts minute; pedicels with ovary $ in.; flowers about $ in. 
diam. Sepals and petals widely spreading. Lip about as long as the sepals, white, flushed 
with pink or banded with yellow; spur corniform, acute, mouth hairy, dorsal scale 
erect, 2-fid., pubescent; side lobes variable in length and midlobe in form. Columa 
very short, ‘broad; angles rounded; rostellum very short. Anther short, broad; pollinia : 
globose, 4 cleft, (2 very small, Clarke); strap dilated i UEM tip contracted ;. gland 
~ small, Capsule ¥ inch, fusiform. 
An insignificant species, presenting a good deal of variation in the length and breadth of the leaves, 
= | colour of the flowers, and form of the lobes of the lip, in so far as the analyses of Herbarium specimens 
_ shows, The latter (flowers only) accompanied the drawing which was inscribed “Sarcanthus from Col. 
5 5 Perreau, in Calcutta, Fid. i in H. B. С., 3rd May 1886, · 
Tig 1, front, and 2, dorsal view of flower; 3, front view of column and lip; 4, lip; 5, side view of column and lip; 
— — К the, same with the lip bisected ; 7, pollinia; و‎ enlarged. | 
