594- G. KiDg & R. Pantling. — New lndo-Malayan Orchids. [No. 3, 



Khasia Hills ; at an elevation of 3,000 feet ; Pantling drawing No. 

 628; in flower during July. 



The sepals and petals are of a dull yellow, the lip being white 

 with irregular rose-coloured spots. 



The characters of the flower in this plant are more those of Sacco- 

 labium than of any other Indian genus. The wide pouched lip, ad- 

 hering to the column from its apex downwards, and expanding below its 

 base into a wide eseptate sac, is a character which brings this into 

 alliance with the group of species in Saccolabium of which S. calceolare 

 is the type. There is, however, in this no distinct apical lobe, but only 

 a great thickening of the anterior extremity of the mouth of the wide 

 sac of which the lip practically consists, and in this respect it differs 

 from S. calceolare and its immediate allies. 



Sarcanthus Rolfeanus, n. spec. Stems slender, pendulous. Leaves 

 terete, 2 to 4 in. long, and about *12 in. thick. Racemes pendulous, 

 25 in. long, few-flowered. Flowers '33 in. across ; floral bract minute, 

 slender, subsessile. Sepals unequal ; the dorsal ovate, concave, erect ; 

 the lateral pair oblong, very blunt, reflexed. Petals much narrower 

 and somewhat shorter than the sepals, linear, blurt, reflexed. Lip 

 about as long as the petals ; side lobes large, oblong, blunt, entire ; their 

 apices oblique, subacute, directed forwards and slightly converging; apical 

 lobe fleshy, triangular, its upper surface with a small antrorse tooth ; 

 spur short, horizontal, much shorter than the ovary, dorsal ly compressed, 

 imperfectly septate, the posterior wall near the mouth with a broadly 

 saggitate callus with a straight line of short stiff hairs in front of it. 

 Anther-lip acute ; pollinia 2, each completely bipartite, the caudicle 

 broad ; the gland triangular, orange-coloured. 



Moulmein ; Burmah ; ? Peche. 



This plant, which flowered in the Botanic Garden, Calcutta, last 

 June is believed to have been received from Mr. Peche, Moulmein. The 

 sepals and petals are of a dark purplish-brown, and the lip is white or 

 pale pink. The species is allied to S. appendiculatus, Hook, fil., but is 

 more slender, has smaller flowers, with a shorter spur, the structure of 

 which differs greatly from that of S. appendiculatus. The latter species 

 moreover has not the peculiar saggitate callus on the column which is 

 so conspicuous in this. 



Sarcanthus Kunstleri, n. spec. Stem erect, rigid, often branch- 

 ing, 4 to 6 in. long. Leaves terete, fleshy, stout, horizontal or slightly 

 decurved, 25 to 3 in. long, and about # 25 in. in diam. Inflorescence more 

 than twice as long as the leaves, spreading or erect ; the peduncle with 

 one sheath at the base and a few shorter scattered along its length ; 

 bearing above a raceme or panicle with thickened rachis. Flowers 



