60 oxLTiii. OECHiDEiis. (J. D, Hooker.) [Saccolahium. 



longer than, tie small saccate or subglobose spur, petals linear l-nerved, 

 blade of lip oblong concave subtruncate, side lobes small rounded. Taenio- 

 phyllum Jerdonianum, Wight Ic. 1. 1756. 



Malabab ; on branches of trees, JerAon, 



Stem 1-3 in., tufted. Leaves l-lj by f in. Racemes much longer than the 

 leaves ; bracts ovate, acuminate ; flowers yV in. long ; column short ; anther broad j 

 pollinia with a short strap and large narrow gland. — Described chiefly from 

 Wight. 



19. S. lanatum, Hook. f. ; stem short, leaves linear-oblong broadly 

 2-lobed, peduncle very stout longer than the leaves, spikes dense-fld. 

 tomentose or woolly, sepals ovate tips keeled, side lobes o£ lip triangular, 

 midlobe ovate bicuspidate, spur short saccate traversed by a pubescent 

 ridge from the base of the column to that of the midlobe. Oleisostoma 

 lanatum, Lindl. in Journ. Sort. Sac. iv. 264 ; Walp. Ann, 889. 



Tenasseeim ; at Moulmein, VarisTi, Scott. 



Stem very stout. Leaves i-4i by 1-lJ in., thickly coriaceous, keeled. Scape 

 with long appressed sheaths, simple or branched ; spikes 4-7 in. ; bracts J in., large, 

 ovate, acuminate, spreading or reflexed j flowers ^ in. long; sepals dingy purple and 

 green ; petals obovate, ciliate, yellow and purple ; side lobes of lip notched on the 

 inner margin, ciliate; midlobe with a large pubescent gibbous compressed callus 

 descending into the spur, mouth of spur contracted to a slit with a pubescent raised 

 border ; column stout, recurved, tumid below, shortly beaked ; anther beaked ; 

 pollinia globose, sulcate, strap long slender dilated and forked above, each arm 

 spathulate and with the globose pollinia immersed in their iconoave tips, gland 

 small oblong. — A remarkable plant, put by Lindley into Gleis^toma, but I do not 

 find the great gland in the spur under the column. 



.Sect. II. Oalcbolahia. (See p. 64.) 



The species of this section wants a thorough revision with much better material 

 than is at my disposal. 



20. S. calceolare, Lindl. in Wall. Oat. 7302; Gen. Sf Sp. Orchid. 

 223 ; Sert. Orchid. Frontisp. 6 ; in Bot. Reg. 1883 ; Misc. 139 ; in Journ. 

 Linn. Soe. iii. 33 {exc. syn.^ ; leaves acutely unequally 2-lobed or -cleft, 

 blade of lip reniform erose disk eohinate all over. G-riff. Notul. iii. 356 ; 

 Itin. Notes 170, No. 869; Ic. Plant. Asiat. t. 334; Walp. Ann. y\. S'&Z. 

 Aerides calceolare, Smith in Bees Cyclop. Suppl. Ae. leopardorum, Wall, 

 mss. Gastroohilas calceolaria, Don Prodr. 32. Sarcochilns nepalensis, 

 Spr. 8yst. Veg. iii. 721. Epidendrum calceolare. Ham. mss. 



Tbopioal Himaiata ; from Garwhal to Bhotan, Assam, Siihet and the 

 Khasia Hills. Tenassekim, Parish. Peeak, Carter. — Dibtrib. ? Java. 



A very common plant, and, if two species are not included, very variable. 

 Stem very short. Leaves in Wallieh's 7342 A from Nepal 6-12 by i-f in., strongly 

 falcate. His B from Silhet (which is the common form elsewhere) is a much smaller 

 plant, with nearly straight leaves 4-5 by J-f in. Peduncle -I— IJ in. ; pedicels 

 J-1 in. ; flowers ^| in. diam., yellow or greenish speckled barred or blotched with 

 red brown ; lip white or yellow, speckled with red. Capsule in 7342 A 2 in. long ; 

 in the ordinary form |-1 in . — Grifiith's Tab. 334 represents a plant with the leaves 

 oi intermedia aadVi'p o{ calceolare, but it is impossible to determine satisfactorily his 

 Saccolab. No. 2, 3 and 4 of Notul. iii. 356, 357, and his Ic. Plant. Asiat. t. 333, 334. 



,21. S. nilaffiricum, Hook. f. ; leaves narrow deeply unequally 

 2-lobed, sepals and petals each with two series of large blotches, limb of 

 lip fimbriately erose, disk smooth. Vanda pulchella, Wight Ic. 1. 1671. 



NiLG-HiKl Hills ; on the banks of the Kaitairy river and at Quelin, Wight. 



Stem short. Leaves 5-10 by i-| in., flexuous, lobes very unequal, obtuse, often 



