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obovate-oblong, nearly flat, grooved, hardly constricted at the base of the broadly ovate 
epichile, dark purple with a yellow base. Column very short. Poliinia oval, attached to 
a conical caudicle. Capsule 2°5 to 3 cm. long. Blume Mus. Bot, 1., 64; Reichb. f. Xen, 
Orch, i, 204, t. 78, fig. 1; Lindl. Fol. Orch. 3; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. vi, 93, Meso- 
clastes brachystachys Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 1994; Gen. and Sp. Orch. 45. 
Garhwál, Falconer; Kumaon 2,600 to 2,800 feet, Stewart No. 641. It extends 
eastwards to Sylhet and the Khasia Hills, and to Bengal at Jessore, Dacca and the 
Sunderbuns; it is found also in Tenasserim, ‘It flowers during March and$April. 
Mr. C. B. Clarke describes the sepals as green outside and rose-purple within; the petals as 
greenish at the apex and base aud rose-purple in the middle, and the lip black-purple with а 
yelow base. 
4. Lurta rxcowsPICUA Hook. f. MSS. іп Herb. Hort. Cale. 
Stem 1 to 1'5 dm. long, slender, not branching. Leaves 3 to 6:5 em: long and about 
З mm. in diam. Spikes 1- to 3-flowered, 4 to 5 mm. long. Flowers pale yellowish-green, 
4 mm. long; foral bract membranous, triangular, acuminate, Sepals ovate-lanceolate, sub- 
acute, spreading. Petals oblong, tapering slightly to the blunt apex. Lip as long ав 
the sepals, the hypochile hemispherieally saecate, green spotted with purple; epichile 
decurved, flat, sub-reniform, notched at the apex, its upper surface minutely hispid aad 
with 5 or 6 vertical lines. Colwmn half as long as the lip, purple. Anther depressed, 
rostellum large; pollinia broadly ovoid, attached by а slender caudicle to an oblong- 
quadrate gland. Copsule 1 cm. long. King & Pantling in Ann. R, Bot. Gard. Cale. 
viii, 203, t. 272. Saccolabium? inconspicuum Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. vi, 56; in, Ann. R. 
Bot. Gard. Cale. v, 46, t. 69. Cymbidium inconspicuum Wall. MSS. 
Garhwál, east of Tehri, Mackinnon’s collector (Duthie's No. 25127); Tejam in 
Kumaon, Duthie’s collector No. 24114; Бата Valley in Kumaon, Duthie’s collector 
Хо. 24114(a). It extends eastwards to Sikkim and Assam, аё low elevations, flowering 
during June and July. 
This species resembles L. brachystachys, but is more slender and smaller in all its parts. 
21. Sarcochilus R. Brown. 
Epiphytal. Stem none or very short. eaves narrowly oblong or absent. Flowers 
usually in pendulous racemes. Sepals and petals subequal, free, spreading; the dorsal 
sepal concave, the lateral pair broader and partly adnate to the foot of the column, Lip 
jointed or adnate to the long produced foot of the column, without a spur; the 
side lobes very large, erect; the apical lobe minute, tooth-like; the disk with 
hairy ridges and calli. Column, thick, shorter than its foot, wingless, rostellum short, 
Anther terminal, depressed, shortly beaked in front, sometimes bearing two lateral 
sete; poliinia 4, in pairs, compressed; the  caudicle slender, flattened, the gland 
small,—Species about 10, Indian, Chinese and Australian. 
SARCOCHILUS usneo:pes Reichb. f. in Walp. Ann, vi, 497. 
Roots densely tufted, tortuous, Stem none. ЖКасете 7'5 to 15 ст. long, many- 
flowered; peduncle brownish, bearing a few amplexicaul ovate acute membranous 
