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the short sessile ovary. Sepals and petals white with large purple spots. Sepals broadly 
ovate, obtuse, spreading. Petals smaller than the sepals, oblong, spreading. Lip 
fleshy, pink or purple, as long as the sepals; the base with a wide blunt spur 
adpressed to and as long as the ovary, its interior with two calli near the mouth, 
one on the back wall and a larger one on the anterior wall; dorsal scale absent; lateral 
lobes small; the terminal lobe oblong, convex, blunt, its edges thin and erose, upper 
surfaee smooth. Column very short, stout, without а foot, but with a large protuberance 
on either side of the rostellum. Anther depressed, with a long pointed beak; polinia 2, 
obovoid, caudicle triangular, cordate or oblong, attached to a small triangular gland. 
Saccolabium micranthum Lindl, in Wall. Cat. 7300; Gen. and Sp. Orch. 220; Saunder's 
Refug. Bot. t. 110; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. vi, 59, 
Dehra Dun, Vicary, Mackinnon;  Garhwál Falconer, Duthie’s collector No. 25809; 
Kumaon in the Gori Valley 2-3,000 feet, Duthie. Flowers during June and July. It 
extends eastwards to Sikkim, the Naga and Khasia Hills; also in T'enasserim. 
27. Sarcanthus Lindi. 
Epiphytes without pseudo-bulbs, Stems usually elongate. Leaves fleshy, terete or 
flat. Inflorescence extra-axillary, racemose or paniculate. Sepals subequal, all spreading 
or reflexed, or the dorsal concave and connivent over the column. Petals smaller than 
the sepals, spreading. Lip adnate to the base of the column or of its foot, rarely 
jointed; the base with an infundibuliform spur sometimes dilated at the apex, the 
interior with a callus both on the anterior and posterior wall, and always divided into 
two lateral compartments by a vertical antero-posterior septum; lateral lobes small, more 
or less triangular and acute; apical lobe small, triangular or hastate. Column short, 
stout, often with a foot as long as or longer than itself. Anther depressed; pollinia 2, 
bifid.—Species about 35, in Eastern Tropical Asia. 
SARCANTHUS INSECTIFER Reichb, f. in Bot. Zeit. (1857), 159. 
Stem 3 dm. or more in length, scandent, robust, flexuous, giving off on all sides 
elongate fibres. Leaves crowded and almost imbricate, 3:5 to 5 cm. long, distichously 
spreading, oblong, amplexicaul, obtusely 2-lobed, rigidly coriaceous. ^ Hacemes nearly 
sessile, shorter than the leaves, few-flowered, decurved, rachis thick; floral bracts minute, 
deciduous. Flowers 13 mm. across. Sepals and petals 3-nerved, yellowish-green striated 
with red. Sepals ovate-oblong, obtuse or subacute. Petals oblong. Lip broadly funnel 
shaped, with a ring of hairs at its mouth, tapering into a conical spur, white to rose or 
purple; side lobes short; terminal lobe larger than the sepals, triangular-ovate or cordate, 
thickened under the attenuated apex; spur septate. Column very short. Anther hemi- 
spheric ; pollinia sulcate, attached to a short ‚quadrate stipe broader than long; gland 
transverse membranous. Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. vi, 68. | 
Outer Garhwál hills near the Rámganga Valley, Duthie’s collector No. 25817; Sub- 
Himalayan tract of the Bahraich district of N. Oudh, Duthie’s collector No. 23369. 
Flowers in September, It extends eastwards to Behar, Cachar and Chittagong and is 
found also in Tenasserim. 
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