JErides!] cxLvin. oeohidejs. (J. D. Hooker.) 47 



Wight's S. ruhrum. Feduncle very short and stout ; raceme simple or sparingly 

 hranched, rachis stout j bracts minute ; flowers f in. diam., bright red in Wight's 

 S. ruhrum, nearly white with rosy tips in his S. Wightianum ; spur about as long 

 as the blade of the lip, incnrved, obtuse ; anther beaked ; strap of poUinia short, 

 subtriangular, gland large. Ccupsule f in, long, pyriform, angled and grooved. 



12. S:. lineare, Mook. f. ; stem short stout, leaves 6-12 by |-i in. 

 very Tineqnally 2-lobed, panicle long peduncled much branched longer 

 than the leaves, flowers as in JE. radicosum, but rather smaller rose-cold. 

 Saocolabium lineare, lAndl. in Wall. Cat. 7312. S. paniculatum, Wight Ic. 

 t. 1676 ; Reichb. f. in Bonpl. iii. 226. Cymbidium lineare, Serb. Seyne: 



Dbooan Peninsuia. ; on the Ghats from Canara southwards, alt. 5-7500 ft., 

 Wight, Ac. Cbtlon ; in the Doombera district, Thwaites. 



As far as I can judge from dried specimen .^. lineare is with difficulty dis- 

 tinguishable from JE. radicosum, except by the more slender very much branched 

 panicle, and rather smaller flowers. Wallich's specimens of Sacc. lineare are very 

 bad. — The synonyms of this and the preceding may be mixed. 



Sect. III. Leases lorate, keeled. Midlobe of lip incurved between the 

 much larger side lobes. 



13. IE. odoratum, Lour. Fl. Cooh. 525 ; lobes of leaf large rounded, 

 lateral sepals much larger than the dorsal and petals, midlobe of lip 

 oblong-lanceolate acute entire or erose. Lindl, Oen. Sf Sp. Orchid. 239 ; 

 in Joum. Linn. Soc. iii. 41 ; Sot. Mag. 4139 ; JPaxt. Fl. Oard. ii. t. 143 ; 

 Flor. Cal. ii. 75 ; Maund Botanist, iv. t. 180 ; Knowles & West. t. 75 ; 

 Hartm. Farad, ii. t. 4; Walp. Ann. vi. 898, Lindenia, t. 14('uar.). M. cor- 

 nutum, Boxb. Sort. Feng. 63 ; Fl. Ind. iii. 472; Bot. Beg. 1. 1485. 



Teopicai Himalaya ; Nepal, Wallich ; Sikkim, J. D. S. The Khasia Hilis, 

 SiLHET, Chittaoonq and Tenasseeim. The Conoan, Heyne in Kerb. Mottl. — 

 DiBTKiB. Java, China, Cochin-China. 



Stem 4-12 in., very stout. Leave's 6-10 by f-lf in. Macemes many, 10-12 in. j 

 peduncle and rachis stout; flowers purple to nearly white, sweet-smelling, often 

 purple-spotted or -tipped ; side lobes of lip subcuneate, midlobe short ; spur very 

 large, uncinately incurved ; column short; anther obtuse ; strap of poUinia not long, 

 linear, gland small. Capsule 1-1^ in., oblong-clavate, angles obtuse ; pedicel i in., 

 very stout. 



Vae. bicuspidata ; midlobe of lip with a biouspidate tip. — Malacca, Maingay 

 {Kem Distrib. 1648). Peeak (Ic. in Sort. Calcut.). A specimen of this sent from 

 Calcutta (Garden?) to Herb. Hooker by Dr. Carey is named by the latter .M. 

 cornutum. 



14. SS. suavlssimum, Lindl. in Joum. Sort. Soc. iv. 263 ; in Paxt. 

 Fl. Oard. ii. 141, t. 66 ; differs from ^. odoratum in the midlobe of the lip 

 being longer and emarginate. Jard. Fleur. t. 213 ; Folfe in Oa/rd.- Chron. 

 1890, i. 43 ; Walp. Ann. vi. 898. M. Boiohenbachii, Linden in Koch & 

 Fintelm. Wochenschrift, 1858, 61; Beichb. f. Xen. Orchid, ii. 11, t. 104. 

 M. nobile, Warner Sel. Orchid. Ser. 1. t. 11 ; Gartenfl. 40, t. 641. M. 

 Eohanianum, Beichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1884, i. 206. M. flavidum, LvndL 

 in Faxt. Fl. Gard. ii. 101. M. Ballantinianum, Beichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 

 1885, ii. 198. 



Penang and Bttema. » 



Said to be the sweetest scented species of the genus, but more definite characters 

 are wanting to distinguish it from .^. odoratum. The sepals and petals are rosy 

 with often darker tips, the spur yellow mottled red. J5. Sallantinianum is an early 

 flowering form. 



15. Si. Emerlcii, Beichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1882, 586 ; lobes of 



