12S 



ORCHIDS OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY. 



BY 



G. A. Gammie, f.l.s. 

 Part X. (With Plate X.) 

 (Continued from page 626 of Volume XIX.) 

 21. SACCOLABIUM. 

 Epiphytes. Leaves two-ranked, leathery, keeled, peduncles from 

 lateral axils ; /lowers small, in spikes, sepals and petals adnate to the' 

 base of the column, spreading, subsimilar, free ; lip sessile at the base 

 of the column, spurred, lateral and midlobes small, spur neither 

 septate within nor with calli, column short, broad, truncate, rarely 

 beaked, foot 0, anther one-celled, pollinia 2, bipartite. 

 * Stems long and stout, erect, leaves rigidly- 

 leathery, flowers corymbose, sepals and 



petals with transverse red bands 1. S. wightianum. 



** Stems very short, leaves few, lax and 



leathery, floioers racemose. 

 Sepals and petals greenish, midlohe and spur 



of lip .white tinged with pink 2. S. viridifiorum. 



Sepals and petals yellow, each with a purple 

 spot in the centre, lip white, tinged with 



pink #• S. maculatnm. 



1. Saccolabium wightianum, Hook., f. Fl. Br. Ind., VI., p. 72 

 S. pnemorsum, Hook, f. Fl. Br. Ind., VI, p. 62 ; S. papillosum, 

 Dalz. and Gibs. p. 264 ;' Acampe Wightiana, Lindl., T. Cooke, Fl. oj 

 Bombay, II, p. 705 ; JFrides prcemorsum, Grah. Cat., p. 204. 



Steins 12 to 18 inches long, stout, clothed with the sheaths of 

 fallen leaves. Leaves strap-shaped, 4 to 8 inches long, irregularly 

 2-lobed at the apex. Peduncles stout, green, 1^ inch long, bracts 

 brown, very broadly ovate. Floioers, each about |- inch in 

 diameter, crowded, subcorymbose, fragrant, texture thick, sepals : 

 subequal, ovate-oblong obtuse, slightly keeled on back towards 

 apex, yellow mottled with brown on the outer surface, the inner 

 surface yellow with irregular, reddish brown, transverse bands, p>etals 

 similar in coloration but smaller and narrower, being oblanceolate, 

 lip small, very fleshy, white, dotted and streaked with pink, spur very" 



