148 VANDES. 
Hi, 356; Itin. Notes 170; No, 869; Ió-PL As Е 394; Walp. Ann, vi 688; Hook. f. 
Fl Br. Ind. vi, 60; King & Pantling in Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Cale. viu, 225, t. 300. 
ZErides calecolare Smith in Rees Cyclop., Suppl. Æ. leoparcorum Wall, MSS. Gastrochilus 
calceolaris Don. Prod, 32. Sarcochilus nepalensis Spreng. Syst. Veg. ш, 721.  Epidenarum 
calceolare Ham. MSS. | 
Dehra Dun, Gamble No. 25689, Mackinnon; Garhwál, Falconer, Duthie’s collector 
No. 25814. Flowers during April and May. It extends eastwards to Nepal, Sikkim and 
the Khasia Hills. 
3. SACCOLABIUM DISTICHUM Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii, 64. 
Stems 1:5 to 25 dm. long, pendulous, branching, slender, leafy, Leaves 2 to 95 
em. long, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, with two, rarely three, fine sete; the base 
sessile and slightly oblique. Peduncles leaf-opposed, about equalling the leaves in length. 
Flowers two to four in a lax raceme, 12 mm. across, green, irregularly spotted with brown; 
floral bract oblong, subacute. Sepals and petals subequal, oblong-elliptic, obtuse. Zip about 
as long as the sepals, adnate to the lower half of the column, the base with a wide blunt 
sac at right angles to the ovary, its inner surface without hairs or ealli; side lobes none; 
terminal lobe yellow, semicircular, entire, smooth, fleshy, its margins deflexed, the base 
with two blunt conical calli. Column broad; rostellum short, broad. Anther shortly beaked 
in front; pollinia 2, elliptic; caudicle long, slender, cylindric; gland elongate, bifid, 
Capsule fusiform, about 1'5 em. long. Reichb. f. in Ot. Hamb. 43; Hook. f. Fl. Br. 
Ind. vi, 64; in Ann, R. Bot. Gard. Cale. v, 49, t. 73 (in part); King & Pantling in 
Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Cale. уш, 227, t. 303. 
Garhwál, near Tehri, 6,000 feet, Mackinnons collector (Duthie’s No. 24196); Sub- 
Himalayan tract of the Bahraich district in М, Oudh, Duthie’s collector No. 23869. 
Flowers in April and May. It extends eastwards to Sikkim and Manipur. 
26. .Cleisostoma Blume. 
Epiphytes without pseudo-bulbs. Stems more or less elongated, leafy. Leaves 
coriaceous or fleshy, flat or semiterete, Inflorescence leaf-opposed, racemose or paniculate. 
Sepals and petals adnate to the column, subequal, spreading, Lip sessile on the footless 
column, the base with a large saccate or infundibuliform Spur, sometimes dilated at the 
apex, its cavity more or less closed by two calli the posterior of which is often bifid, 
and sometimes also by a dorsal scale, but never by a septum; lateral lobes small or 
absent; apical lobe thickened, concave. Column short, thick, without a foot.  Aníhe' 
depressed ; pollinia 2, often bifid, caudicle single, —Species about 40. Eastern Asiatic and 
Australian. 4 
CLEISOSTOMA MICRANTHUM King & Pantling in Ann. В. Bot. Gard. Calc Vill, 29: 
t. 312. | 
Stem stout, compressed, 7°5 to 20 cm. long, enveloped in leaf-sheaths. Leaves 6:5 
to 9 сш. long, narrowly oblong, keeled, obliquely truncate and slightly bifid, the base 
shortly sheathed. ^ Hacemes leaf-opposed, longer than the leaves, Абано ка rachis 
stout. Flowers many, 5 mm, across; floral bract broad, blunt, less than half as long ағ 
