Saceolabium.] oxLviii. orohidbjE. (J. D. Hooker.) 56 



The following sections are, I think, natural, but are not clearly definable by words. 



Sect. I. MiOEANTHJE. Leaves flat terete or channelled. Mowers small, often 

 minute, in simple or panicled racemes or spikes. Lip various ; spur long or short, 

 (See also Sect, vi. JXnoifera). (Sp. 1-19). 



Sect. II. Caloeolabia. Leaves lorate, flat, flaccid. Flowers subcorymbose on 

 a short stout peduncle ; bracts short, broad rounded. Lip a large hemispheric sac, with 

 truncate or short side lobes and a short triangular or reniform adnate erose or 

 fimbriate midlobe which is warted or echinate on the disk. Oolumn very short ; strap 

 of globose poUinia linear. (Sp. 20-27). 



Sect. III. AcAMFE. Stem usually long and very stout. Leaves keeled, thickly 

 coriaceous. Flowers corymbose as in§ Calceolaria, rarely in large spreading panicles. 

 Lip as in § Calceolaria, but with a thicker warted reniform or ovate midlobe (spur 

 cylindric in S. ochraceum). Column very short; strap of globose poUinia linear. 

 (AOAMPE, Lindl.) (Sp, 28-34). 



Sect. IV. PlATYKHizoif. SiemO, or very short J roots very long, flattened. Leaves 

 lorate, flaccid. Flowers racemed. Lip very small, spur saccate or conical, midlobe 

 small reniform. Column very short; strap of globose poUinia linear, gland large. 

 (MiOEOPEBA, Bah.) (Sp. 35-36). 



Sect. v. DisTicHOPHTLLa:. Stem tufted very slender pendulous, leafy through- 

 out. Leaves uniform, diatiohous, lanceolate. Flower small, in very short racemes, 

 iip small, spur saccate. Column very short, strap of poUinia slender, gland 

 sagittate. (Sp. 37-38). 



Sect. VI. Sfeciosje. Stem very stout as are the long roots. Leaves linear 

 rigid, keeled, often recurved. Flowers highly coloured, in dense racemes. Lip with 

 a linguiform midlobe, small side lobes and a long cylindric spur. Column short or 

 rather long ; strap of globose poUinia slender. — Habit of .^Irides sect. II. ; but there is 

 no foot to the column. (Sp. 39-41). 



Sect. VII. UliClEEE;B. Siem very short, ieaiies distichous, coriaceous. Flowers 

 in dense racemes. Lip with a large funnel-shaped incurved spur much longer than 

 the sepals. Column decurved, rostellum elongate j anther long-beaked ; poUinia 

 globose, seated near the genicnlately inflexed apex of a very long slender strap with 

 recurved margins; gland large, linear, or sagittate. Ukoipeea, Lindl. (Sp. 42, 43.) 



Sect. I. Micranth:*. (See p. 54.) 



* Stems elongate pendulous ; leaves terete, filiform, or semiterete, 



1. Si g-eBttinatuin, Lindl. in Bat. Reg. 1838 Misc. 50 ; leaves strougly 

 curved terete channelled 3-toothed, racemes slender panicled, sepals ovate- 

 oblong 1-nerved about equalling the conic obtuse spar, petals smaller obo- 

 vate l-nerved, midlobe of lip cymbiform obtuse. Walp. Ann. vi. 885. 



.Eastern Himalaya, alt. 3-5000 ft. ; Bhotan Griffith ; Sikkim J. D. S. Khasia 

 and Jyntba Hiils, alt. 2-4000 ft., common. 



Stem 6-12 in,, curved, rooting at the base. Lemes 2-4 in., fleshy, \-^ in. diam. 

 Panicles longer than the leaves, branches spreading ; bracts small, acute, flowers | in. 

 long ; sepals white, or purple with white tips ; petals purple ; lip variable, blade 

 fleshy, sometimes laterally compressed, side lobes very smaU j column very short, 

 anther ovate, strap of poUinia short, broad, gland very large. Capsule subsessile 

 |-i in. long, oblong, curved. 



2. S> nlveum, Lindl. Gen. Sr 8p. Orchid. 224 ; stem short, leaves 

 recurved semiterete channelled notched, racemes slender panicled, sepals 

 ovate-oblong 1-nerved about equalling the ovoid obtuse spur, petals 

 cuneately oblong truncate 1-nerved, midlobe of lip spathulate fleshy 

 concave. Thwaites Enwm. 804. 



Cbtion ; in the Central Province, alt. 3-4000 ft., Walleer, Thwaites. 

 Stem stout; 1-4 in., curved. Leaves 2-4 in., fleshy, i-i in. diam. Fanwles 

 longer than the leaves, branches spreading ; bracts minute, acute ; flower ^^ m. long. 



