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22. SARCANTHUS. 



Epiphyte, stems pendulous, elongate, leafy. Leaves fleshy. Flowers 

 small, in racemes shorter than the leaves, bracts small, sepals subequal, 

 petals rather smaller than the sepals, lip adnate to the foot of the 

 column, spur conical, with the cavity divided by a vertical septum 

 and with a dorsal 2-lobed callus, lateral lobes small, midlobe small, 

 incurved, column short, anther beaked, poliinia 2, bipartite, caudicle 

 slender, gland small. 



1. Sarcanthus peninsularis, Dalz. Fl. Br. Ind. VI, p. 67; 

 Dale, and, Gibs. p. 264 ; T, Cooke, Fl. of Bombay, II, p. 706, 

 (by error peduncularis). 



Stem as thick as a duck's quill, flexuous, green, invested by the 

 leaf sheaths, up to a foot in length. Leaves 4 to 6 inches long by I 

 inch broad, fleshy, curved, linear — lanceolate acuminate, narrowed at 

 the base. Racemes about 11? inch long, leaf opposed, flowers deflexed, 

 scattered, J inch in diameter, bracts minute, rachis slender, pedicels 

 very short, sepals and petals spreading, yellow with intramarginal 

 red bands, lateral sepals elliptic obtuse, dorsal a little longer and 

 narrower than these, petals subequal to the lateral sepals, spathulate, 

 lip with violet lateral lobes and a pink, incurved, acute midlobe, spur 

 conical, septate, dorsal callus small. 



Floivers during the rains. 



Distribution. — This species only occurs in North Kanara within our area, 

 from thence it extends southwards to Travancore and Ceylon. 



23. CLEISOSTOMA. 



This differs from Sarcarithus only in the spur not being septate 

 and from Saccolabium in having a dorsal scale or callus within he 

 spur beneath the column. 



1. Gleisostoma (sp. nov. ? ). 



Stem about 3 inches long, as thick as a goose quill. Leaves sheath- 

 ing, greenish brown, coriaceous, keeled, iinear-oblong emarginate, up 

 to 14 inches in length. Inflorescence shortly racemose, peduncle 

 slender, stiffly erect, bearing pink flowers, each ^ inch in diameter, in 

 clusters of l> towards the apex ; sepals broadly ovate, semi-patent, 

 broader than the petals, lip, base spurred, continuous with the column, 

 spur obtuse, incurved, with two colli at its mouth, blade 3-lobed, 

 lateral lobes shallow, pointing forwards, midlobe broadly triangular 

 obtuse, column short, broad, joot 0, anther 1, poliinia 2, each bilobed. 



