1897.] Gr. King & R. Pantling — New Indo-Malaijan Orchids. 593 



to the oblique but not bifid apex, narrowed to the base, sessile ; length 6 

 to 8 in., breadth about 1 in. Racemes less than *5 in. long, short, extra- 

 axillary, few-flowered. Flowers opening only one at a time, fugaceous, '5 

 in. long. Sepals narrowly elliptic, sub- acute. Petals shorter than the sepals, 

 ob-lanceolate, acute. Lip rather shorter than the sepals, laterally com- 

 pressed, sub-rhomboid when viewed from the side, chiefly consisting of a 

 funnel-shaped blunt ponch, with straight upper edges, and a short 

 horizontally-projecting bluntly-triangular, fleshy, smooth apical lobe. 

 Column short, thick. Anther apical, horizontal, the lip trilobulate ; 

 pollinia 2, globose, the caudicle ligulate, the gland obovate. 



Jaintia Hills at Am wee, elevation 3,000 feet; Pantling No. 625; 

 flowering in June. 



This species was collected by Mr. Pantling during the cold season 

 of the present year. It flowered in cultivation in June. The flowers 

 are white with purplish-brown markings on the column, and with small 

 spots of the same tint on the sepals, petals, and lip. The apical lobe 

 of the lip is of a bright yellow. This differs from all Indian species of 

 the genus hitherto described by its curious pouched lip much compressed 

 laterally. The flowers resemble those of the plant figured in the fifth 

 volume of the Annals of the Calcutta Bot. Garden tinder the name 

 Sarcochilus br achy glottis, Hook. fil. The lip of the present species has 

 however no calli or septum inside it, and it is perfectly smooth ; and 

 the pollinia also are quite those of Saccolabium^ being globose and not 

 partite, and the column is without a foot. 



Saccolabium crassilabre, n. spec. Pendulous ; stem 2 or 3 in, 

 long. Leaves coriaceous, flat, oblong ; the apices sub-acute, entire, 

 length 3'5 to 5 in., breadth about 1 in. Inflorescence from the stem 

 below the leaves ; the peduncle 15 to 2 in, long, slender, bearing a 

 single short bract about the middle and, at the apex, 3 or 4 sub-umbel- 

 late flowers about "75 in. in diam. ; floral bract ovate, acute, about one- 

 fifth of the length of the stalked ovary. Sepals unequal, spreading ; the 

 dorsal elliptic, acute ; the lateral pair larger, ovate-elliptic, acute. Petals 

 slightly shorter and much narrower than the sepals, sub-spathulate, 

 blunt, spreading. Lip attached to the sides of the column for its whole 

 length, consisting of a deep wide pouched sac bearing two minute 

 falcate side-lobes, the apical lobe reduced to a fleshy thickening of the 

 apex of the sac, bearing a projecting callus inside near its base ; the 

 sac eseptate, but with a few stiff glandular hairs near the bottom of its 

 anterior wall. Column short, with a cluster of papillas at its lower 

 extremity extending into the sac of the lip. Lip of anther truncate ; 

 rostellum short, straight. Pollinia 2, colourless, deeply bipartite, 

 attached in pairs to the small gland. 



