1024 BENGAL PLANTS. [Camarotis. 
917. Camarotis Lindl. 
Epiphytic herbs; stems elongated; leaves distant, coriaceous, 
wscied: Sraeil 2-fid at the tip. Flowers numerous, in lax, 
extra ary racemes. Sepals subequal, spreading or reflexed. 
Petals like Mao lip sessile on the column, forming a thick- 
walled sac, its lumen narrowed by 2 calli, and partially or com- 
pletely divided by a septum into an upper and lower chamber; 
side-lobes small, obscure ; apical lobe small, thick, concave, entire, 
sometimes nearly obsolete. Column twisted, footless; rostellum 
very long, narrow-subulate, curved, twisted to one side. Ant ther 
dorsal, depressed ; pollinia 4, in two pairs, attached by their bases 
to a long, narrow caudicle, tapering to a minute gland. 
Flowers purple ; lip without side-lobes; sac with an included ge 
ostrata. 
Flowers cream-white; lip with large, rounded side-lobes ; sac “with an 
exserted spine pallida 
2001. Camaroris RostRata Reichb. f. Brides rostratum F. 1. 
iii. 474. Sarcochilus purpureus F. B. I. vi. 36. 
Chittagong. 
An epiphytic herb, stem 2-8 feet long. 
2092. CAMAROTIS PALLIDA Lindl. Erides pallidum F. 1. iii. 475. 
ng. 
An epiphytic herb, stem 2-3 feet long. 
918. Vanilla Swartz. 
Climbing, rooting, branched shrubs; stems ity or angled; 
leaves subsessile, coriaceous or fleshy, sometimes 0. Jlowers 
usu: large, on short, axillary peduncles. pie? — 
‘spreading. Petals like sepals; lip with its base adnate t o the 
column, which is embraced by its broad, convolute limb. col alate 
long. nthe incumbent, its cells separate; pollinia granular. 
Capsule sae fleshy. 
2098. VANILLA nats Reichb. f.; F. B. I. vi. 90. 
Chittagong, forest near Burkal. 
A climbing, rooting, leafy epiphyte. 
919. Didymoplexis Griff. 
Terrestrial, leafless, saprophytic herbs, with tuberous roots: 
Scape simple, bearing a scanty raceme of white flowers, the — 
