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PLATE: 85. 
ÜLEISOSTOMA BREVIPES, Hook. ур 
С. brevipes; caule valido elongato folioso basi radicante, foliis distichis uniformibus 
lineari-lanceolatis acutis . crasse coriaceis, spicis lateralibus brevibus breviter crasse 
pedunculatis, rachi crassa cylindracea, bracteis parvis acutis, floribus aureis, petalis sepalisque 
ovato-oblongis obtusis vittis 2 rubris purpureisve notatis, labelli lobis lateralibus brevibus 
faleatis acutis, terminali brevi triangulari-hastata apice membranacea bi-aristata disco 
incrassato, calcare brevi sacciforme. 
Нав.--біккім HIMALAYA (Ze. in Herb. Calcutta); alt, 5,000 feet, Gamble; Assam (Hort.). 
Stems tufted, 8—19 in., as thick as a goose-quill, curved, leafless and sheathed below, 
rooting at the base, leafy above, internodes 2—1 in, Leaves similar all the way up 
the stem, 4—6 by 2 in., channelled above, stiff, hard, somewhat narrowed at the base, tip 
almost pungent. Spike 1—11 in., horizontal, green, } in. diam,; basal sheaths annular; 
bracts minute, red-brown; ovary $ in.; flowers 1— in. diam. Sepals and petals widely 
spreading, subsimilar. Zip longer than the sepals, yellow with red markings; spur 
shining, with a thickened callus at the base of the midlobe, which extends across the 
mouth of the spur to meet the thick callus at the base of the column, thus closing the 
orifice. Column short, stout, angles rounded. Рота subquadrate; strap compressed, 
gland large, 2-partite. Capsule 1—14 in., fusiform, terete, fleshy, striate. 
A remarkable spesies, of which I have examined a fruiting specimen collected by Mr. Gamble in 
Sikkim, and a living flowering plant sent to Kew from a nursery in England. Тһе latter differs somewhat 
from the figure here given in the large flowers with more purple bands on the sepals and petals, and in 
having two awns on the membranous tip of the midlobe of the lip; these may have fallen off in the 
specimen figured, which was inseribed “ Sarcanthus from Sikkim, No. 2, Botanic Garden, July 1867.” 
Fig. 1, flower; 2, front and 3, side view of column and lip:—all enlarged. 
PLATE 83. 
` CLEISOSTOMA SPICATUM, Lindl. 
C. spicatum ; caule crasso elongato radicante folioso, foliis latis oblongis 2-lobie, 
pedunculo oppositifolio crasso decurvo, spica foliis longiore pendula multiflora, bracteis 
ovato-subulatis demum deflexis, sepalis petalisque minoribus ovatis مسا‎ fusco-rubris 
vitta media marginibusque aureis, labelli lobis lateralibus rotundatis terminali parvo 
"esto emmoso, calcare magno basi infilato 4-lobo. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. sub. t. 82; Hook. 
£ Fl. Brit Tl vi. 79. Sarcanthus densiflorus, Par. et Reich. f. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 
or 136 : Saccolabium densiflorum, Lindi. ín Wall. Cat. n. 7311 et Gen. and Sp. Orchid, 
290 et in Bot. Reg., 1838, Mise. 96. Aerides densiflorum, Wall. mss. 
Has, —Bnorax (Je. in Herb. Calcutta). Texassernt, Moulmein, Parish. Prxaxo, Wallich, 
Curtis, Prax, Kunstler. DısTRIB. Borneo. 
| as thick as the middle finger in the Penang and figured 
Stem variable in thickness, Tenasserim and Perak ones, flexuous, apparently scandent ; 
specimens, more slender in the 
