Saccolahium.'] oxlviii. oechide^. (J. D. Hooker.) 63 



very stout, internodes short, sheaths annular, bracts semicircular, flowers 

 papillose, midlobe of lip broadly ovate or rounded, sac rounded tubercled 

 and pu bescent at the base within. Acampe excavata, Lindl. Fol. Orchid. 

 3; Whip. Ann. vi. 874. Cymbidium prEemorsum, Swartz in Nov. Act. 

 Upsal. vi. 75 ; Willd. 8p. PI. iv. 103 ; Boxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 465. Epiden- 

 drum pr»morsum, Roxb. Cor. PI. i. 34, t. 43. — Bheede Sort. Mai. xii. t. 4. 

 Aerides undulata, Smith, in Bees Cyclop, xxxix. 



Wbstern PENINSULA; in the Circars, Roishai-gh ; the Couoati, Law. 



Apparently near S. Wightianum, but more slender, leaves nairowei', lip deeply 

 lobed, very complicate, flowers small, papillose all over, i-f in. diam. Capsule 

 2Jin. 



32. S. papillosum, Lindl. in Bat. Beg. t. 1552 {excl. syn.) ; Qen. & 

 Sp. Orchid. 222 ; stem elongate branched scandent, leaves 8-4 in., scape 

 1-2 in., internodes close, bracts semicircular, midlobe of lip ovate, spur 

 conical pubescent within. S. carinatum, Oriff". Notul. iii. 354. Acampe 

 papillosa, Lindl. Fol. Orchid. 2 ; Walp. Arm. vi. 873. Sarcochilus pras- 

 morsus, Spreng. Syst. PI. iii. 731,^fl! Steitdel. 



Benoal and the lower Himalaya Mis., from Sikkim eastwards. Assam, the 

 GAsaETic Delta, the Cikcaes and Tenasseeim. 



Stem 2-3 ft., as thick as a goose-quill. Leaves obliquely notched. Scape closely 

 scarred to the base ; flowers f in. diam.; ovary very short. Capsule 1^ in., fusi- 

 form. — The lip is broader in Lindley's figure than in Sjlhet specimens, in which they 

 are oblong-ovate. 



33. S. cepbalotes, Sooh. /. ; stem very short, leaves 3-5 in. narrow 

 with a unilateral semicircular sinus at the tip, peduncle 1 in., midlobe of 

 lip broadly ovate crenulate, sac conic hairy within. Acampe oephalotes 

 Lkndl. Fol. Orchid. 3 ; Walp. Ann. vi. 873. 



SiLHBT ; H.f. ^ T. 



A small species, of which there are very few specimens ; it appears to differ from 

 S. papilloseum in the short stems, longer crowded leaves and small yellow green 

 flowers barred with purple j lip pale rose with darker spots, disk fimbriate. 



34. S. conffestuBttj Soak. f. ; stem short very stout, leaves 6-8 in., 

 scape 1^-2 in., internodes very shor^, bracts broadly ovate acute, flowers 

 crowded, limb of lip rhomboid acute-angled, spur shortly conical or saccate 

 hairy within. S. papillosum, Wight Ic. t. 1672 {not of Lindl.). Acampe 

 oongesta, Lindl. Fol. Orchid. 3 ; Walp. Ann. vi. 873. Vanda congesta, 

 Lvndl. in Pot. Beg. 1839, Misc. 61. 



Malabae, Wight. Ceylon {Sort. Loddiges). 



Lindley's V. congesta from Ceylon is described as having obliquely mucronulate 

 leaves, yellow and brown flowers, lip with an excavate pubescent base, and column 

 with mucronate angles (a single flower only is in Herb. Lindl.) . Wight 8. papil- 

 losum, is 6gvLTed with ideeply 2-lobed leaves and a curved spur; his specimens (in 

 Serb. Lindl. 1019/1836) have curved leaves 8-10 by 1-li in. 



Sect. IV. Platybhizok. (See p. 54). 



36. S. viridiflorum, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Foe. iii. 36 ; leaves 

 1-2|- in., racemes shorter than the leaves subcorymbose, spur acute glabrous 

 within parallel to the blade of the lip. Palz. Sf Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 263; 

 Walp. Ann. vi. 885. Micropera viridiflora. Pah. in Sook. Journ. Pot. iii. 

 (1851), 282. 



The SoUTHBBN CoNOAN ; in the Western Ghats, Law, Dalull. CsYLoif, near 

 Kandy (tc. in Seri. Kevi). 



Leaves J-J in. broad. Maceme 3-5-fld. j bracts short, broad, obtuse; flowers 



