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broad at the widest part. Scape stout, together with the densely 

 flowered raceme 2 to 4 feet long, puberulous, with a few short scattered 

 sheaths. Flower bracts 1 in. or more in length, linear, acuminate, 

 deflexed, about as long as the ovaries. Floiuers 1 in. across, yellow. 

 Sepals '4 in. long, ovate, sub-acute, 5-niervedy reflexed, and resting upon 

 the stalked ovary. Petals elliptic-lanceolate, acute, narrowed towards 

 the base, erect. Lip\erj short, sessile, inserted at the top of the column, 

 transversely elliptic or quadrate, 2-lobed ; the lobes reflexed, their margins 

 entire or sub-crenate, with 5 crested lines running along the centre 

 from base to apex. Column short and stout : stigmatic surface on 

 each side of the entrance to the spur. Sptcr exceeding the stalked ovary, 

 sub-clavate, slightly curved, sparsely pubescent, the inner wall with hair- 

 like papillae in the upper half. Pollinia clavate, in 4 pairs, attached to 

 an oblong gland. 



Sikkim; at Choongthang, elevation 6,000 feet ; flowering in May, the 

 flowers sweet-scented. R. Pantling No. 365. 



This species comes nearest to 0. Mannii, Hook. fil. which has, 

 however, a very short spur. This is as yet a little known plant, only a 

 few specimens having hitherto been gathered. 



Vandeas. 



SACCOLABIUM, Blume. 



• 

 Saccolabium LANCiFOLiuM, n. spcc. Stem pendulous, 8 to 12 in. 

 long. Leaves fleshy, linear, acuminate, aristate at the apex, slightly 

 keeled, 3 to 5 in. long and '25 to "3 in. broad. Racemes axillary, densely- 

 flowered, pendulous, 1* 5 to 2 in. long, their peduncles as long as themsel- 

 ves and bearing a few membranous lanceolate scattered bracts. Flowers 

 yellow, -25 in. long ; floral bracts minute, triangular, much shorter than 

 the sessile ovary. Dorsal sepal broadly ovate, very concave, the apex 

 broad and slightly eniarginate, the laterals obliquely obovate, blunt, all 

 three connivent. Petals oblong, blunt. Lip boat-shaped, its limb about 

 as long as the sepals, the apex with a large callus behind it. Spur 

 funnel-shaped, longer than the ovary, much curved forwards, its apex 

 not ' thickened. Column very short, the rostellum beaked. Pollinia 2 

 pairs, small, globular- ovoid, attached to the inflexed beak of the cfiudicle; 

 caudicle broad below the beak, much narrowed to the base ; gland 

 elongate, notched at its base. 



Sikkim : at Rissisoom, elevation 6,000 feet ; flowering in June. 

 Allied to the Khasia species S' acuminatum Hook, fil., but with 

 smaller flowers, longer, narrower, and more sparsely arranged leaves 

 and also with shorter stems. 



