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cxiviii. OROHiDEji!. (J. D, Hooker.) [Sareoehtlus. 



claw of Up spotted with purple, lateral lobes purple, midlobe cream-cold., spur speckled 

 with purple; column rather short ; anther hardly beaked, yellow, poUinia subglobose, 

 strap short.— Described from a drawing in the Calcutta Gardens. Evidently allied 

 to b. aureus m the form of the lip, but the whole plant is much smaller. The peduncle 

 18 clavate, the sepals and petals much smaller and narrower, and as well as the lip 

 differently cqloured. Soortechini's drawing is of a young plant. 



Sect. IV. MicBOPEEA, Lindl. (gen.). (See p. 33.) 

 8. S. purpureus, Senth. mss. ; raceme peduncled lax-fld., flowers pale 

 piu-ple, hp strongly laterally compressed hatchet-shaped, side lobes 0, sac 

 mth a strong included recurved spine under the tip. Micropera pallida, 

 Wall.Lat. 7321 (mpart). Oamarotis purpurea, lAndl. in Wall. Cat. 7329: 

 Qen.SrSp. Orchid. 219; 8ert. Orchid, t. 19; in Journ. Linn. Soc. Hi. 2,7 ; 

 -^axt. Mag Bot. vii. t. 25. C. rostrata, Seichh.f. in Walp. Ann. vi. 881. 

 brides rostratum, i2oa;6. JP^.Jmc^. iii. 474 



Khasia Mm., near Churra. Siihbt and Chittagokg, Roxburgh, Wallich., &c. 

 tn^fK T :'v.^% ?> ^' "^ goose-quill. Leaves 3-4 by i in., obtusely 2-lobed, 



W^ 1, /t "''!?• /»««'»f equalling or exceeding the leaves, laxly many-fld. 

 oW,?i rV T^\ ^'"'r H "•• ^''■'^■' ^^P"'^ """l '"''=«>• ^^''ll*' petals ver^ 

 slender "" °" °°^ "''^' *«^»°"=- Capsule 1^-2 in. long, 



flpr,!; ^fl-**>*'»"*"Sr»»"*.;«^o°f/.; raceme long-peduncled decurved rather 

 loZf'lf cream-white, hp shpper-shaped laterally compressed, side* 



lobes large rounded^ sac with an exserted spine under the tip" Micropera 

 ^1' t"n- Z Mi ^'n^- """^^ *• 1^22 ; in Wall. Cat 7321 Hnp^; 

 37 %ff,-,?ZYA 219- Oamarotis pallida, im<^;. in Journ. lAnn. Soc. iii 

 d7. Andes pallidum, Soxb. Fl. Ind. lii. 475 {not of Undley). 



Bengai,; at ComjUa, Clarhe. CniTTAaoNG, Hoxlurah, &c Tenassphtw • »f 

 Mergui, Griffith {Kew Distrib. 5241), Selfer (K D 5255) aenasseeim , at 



IjfT A- T*""™!. ^^^ °°" °^ Sarcanthus secundus ; but there arf specimens of 

 pallida under his number 7321 in Herb. Lindley. specimens ot 



10. S. obtusus, 5e»a. wiOT. ; raceme very shortly nedunoled Pv^^f Vr, 

 Tenasserim ; at Moulmein, Grijith, Parish. 



I i(:Tf c^uC'kTeLd! ^^n ^:j::r'^r^::j^^i 'r\ r "/ 



lamella, midlobe minute 3.toothed; beak of?o!nmn bng, rbfi'qndyTnc'r^ed.'"*'""' 



shaSd ^bt'fsrdSvfrti' iZrouZirtAr^"!' '^^-^'■' ''^ ^^w- 



scale truncate, close under the fleshytitSip®^^' "''^'^'''> ^"^^""'^^ 

 Khasia Hills, alt. 2-8000 ft., Maun 



