56 ANNALS OF ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
roots very long and stout; internodes green, 1—1 in. long. Leaves 4—8 by 3—2 in., spreading 
and waved, deeply channelled, dark green. Peduncle 1—2 in., stout, green, with broad 
ovate obtuse sheaths + in. long, the lowest of which are annular; spike 4—5 in., dense- 
fld., glabrous or faintly furfuraceous; bracts nearly as long as the short ovary; flowers 
4 in. broad iu Penang specimen, 1 in. in the Bhotan drawing. Sepals and petals widely 
spreading. Zip about as long as the sepals, yellowish, flushed with red, dorsal callus 
erect forked; spur almost bottle-shaped, the inflated truncate end 2-lobed and each lobe 
again faintly lobulate, sometimes transversely septate near the base within. Column 
very short and stout, rostellum obscure, Ал е” flat, ovate, acuminate; pollinia 
globose ; strap very slender, dilated above; gland small. 
A very stout species as figured here, remarkable for the bottle-shaped spur of the lip, which 
resembles that of Saccolabium buccosum, Reichb. f. I have some doubts as to whether there may 
not be two species included under C. spicatum, and that the Sikkim plant (of which I have seen no 
specimen) figured here may be different from the Tenasserim and Penang one, the flowers are so 
much larger; allowance, however, must be made for the habitual exaggeration of native artists. 
On the other hand, the Sikkim habitat may not be a correct one, the transposition of labels of 
garden plants is so frequent and not detectable. The drawing is inscribed “ Sarcanthus latifolius, 
Т. Anders., from В. G., 26th April 1866, introd. by 8. Jennings, Esq., from Bhotan. Т. Anders.” 
Another drawing of a plant with narrower leaves is inscribed * From Perak, Kunstler misit, H. B.C. 
fld. 23-5-84." 
Fig. 1, flower with the sepals and petals displaced; 2 and 3, anther; 4, pollinia:—aZ enlarged. 
PLATE 84. 
CLEISOSTOMA  UTERIFERUM, Hook. f. 
C. uteriferums acaule, folis paucis late loriformibus flaccidis apice oblique rotundatis 
v. 2-fidis marginibus undulatis, pedunculo rachique spice densiflore striato crasso foliis 
breviore, bracteis minutis, floribus parvis, sepalis obovato-oblongis petalisque angustioribus 
lineari-oblongis flavis basin versus fusco-rubris, marginibus undulatis, labelli ore constricto 
lobis lateralibus brevibus truncatis, terminali minuto ovato carnoso, calcare magno globoso 
inflato antice sulcato. Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 74. 
Нав.--Ревак, Kunstler (in Herb, Caleutt.). 
Stem very short, with tufted roots. Leaves pendulous or decurved, flat, rather 
pale green, base hardly contracted, tip sometimes obliquely truncate. Spike with 
_ peduncle 3$ in.; flowers about 1 in, diam.; ovary about j in. Sepals and petals fleshy. 
_ Lip almost wholly consisting of the globose  bottle-like spur with thin walls; it 
bears a small callus under the minute caruncled midlobe, and a large erect tongue-like 
one below the column. Column very short and stout, rostellum short, protruded. Anther 
broad, truncate, crown 2-lobed, l-celled ; pollinia globose, strap elliptic-lanceolate, 
narrowed at both ends, gland oblong. Fa 
A very well marked species, of which I have seen only dried flowers accompanying the drawing, 
which is inscribed ©“ Kunstler e Perak misit, Fl. in Н.В. О., 14-6-84.” © | 
Е _ Fig. 1, side and 2, front view of flower; 3, section of lip; 4, column and portion of sac of lip with dorsal callus; 5, anther; 
. 6, pollinia یسر‎ enlarged. 
