64 CxLTili. OEdHiBEiE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Saccolahiunt. 



i-\ in. diam./greerish wliite; lip clouded with rose-colour, blade situated at the 

 moutli of the spur which it eaibraces, broadly deflexed flabelliform membranous 

 outer margins crenulate or trifid, side lobes free rounded ; spur very short, conical, 

 incurved. 



36. S> maculatum, Hool.f.; leaves 4^6 in., raceme elongate much 

 longer than the leaves laxly inany-fld., spur obtuse villous within. Micro- 

 pera muculata. Dalz. in Hook. Journ. Bot. iii. (1851), 282 ; Dalz. Sf Cribs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 263 ; Lindl. in Journ. Linn. 8oc. iii. 38. Sarcochilus macu- 

 latus, Benth. in Gen. Plant, iii. 575. 



The Southern Conoan and Canaea ; on the Western Ghats, Dalzell, Stocks, 

 'Ritchie, &c. 



Leaves 1-2 in., broad, linear-oblong to cuneately oblong, 2-lobed. Raceme 

 8-12 in., very shortly peduncled ; bracts short, broad; rachis stout; flowers J in. 

 diam., subsessile ; sepals and petals yellow wfith a central purple spot ; lip white and 

 rose-cold., blade situated below the mouth of the short saccate obtuse spur, which it 

 overlaps, very coriaceous, entire; side lobes connate below, narrow, erect and re- 

 curved. Capsule IJ in., fusiform, 6-ribbed. — Allied, I think, to S. viridiflorum, 

 and not a Sarcochilus, to which Bentham has referred it. 



Sect. V. DisTiCHA. (See p. 54.) 



37. S' distichum, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 36; leaves 1 in. 

 lanceolate acuminate or 2-3-cuspidate, peduncle 2-3-fld., sepals and petals 

 obovate-obloug, lip with a, saccate subhemispheric spur, midlobe small semi- 

 circular fleshy entire with a didymous callus at the base. Beichb. i. Olia 

 Hamburg, 43. 



SiKKiM HiMAiATA, alt. 6-8000 ft., Griffith's Collectors. Khasia HiLts, 

 alt. 5-6000 ft., J. D. S. Sj- T. T. Muhhipoee, alt. 6900 ft.. Watt. 



Stems 4—8 in., filiform. Leaves very fleshy. Feduncle rarely longer than the 

 leaves; flowers racemose, ^-J in. diam.; bracts small; sepals and petals green or 

 yellowish spotted with purple ; side lobes of lip ; column very short. Capsule 

 f in., fusiform. 



38. S. tenuicaule, Hook.f.Ic. Plant, ined. ; leaves 3-4 in. linear-lan- 

 ceolate, flowers shortly pedicelled on a tubercle of the stem, sepals broadly 

 obliquely ovate acute, petals smaller, side lobes of lip erect subacute nearly 

 as long as the lanceolate incurved bicuspidate midlobe, spur short con- 

 stricted above the saccate incurved base, villous within at the constriction. 



Penang ; on West Hill, Curtis. Pbeak, ScortecUni, Wray. 



Stem 8-12 in., as thick as a crow-quill, simple or branchedj rooting at the base 

 only, deeply grooved. Leaves J-J in. broad, strict. Flowers \ in. diam., pale green ; 

 sepals thin, nerves 3 faint; petals l-ncrved ; column stout ; midlobe of lip cymbi- 

 form smooth. Column short, anther membranous, almost flat, acuminate ; rostellum 

 projected, styliform ; strap of small reniform poUinia broad, with a dilated subreni- 

 form apex, gland small. 



Sect. VI. SpecioSjE. (See p. 54.) 



39. S. ampullaceum, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7307 ; Sert. Orchid. 1. 17 ; 

 in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 35 {excl. syn.); leaves suberect acutely 2-fid. or 

 truncate and toothed, raceme subsessile, shorter than the leaves, spur 

 straight. Paxt. Mag. Bot. xiii. t. 49 ; Bot. Mag. t. 5595 ; Warner Orchid. 

 Alb. 1. 191. .brides ampullaceum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 476. 



Tbopical Himalaya, alt. 1-3000 ft., from Nepal eastwards. Silhet, 

 MtJNNIPOEB, BOEMA, and Tenasseeim. 



S«e»» short, stout. Leaves 2-6 in., deeply rhannelled. Racemes shorter than 

 the leaves, cylindric ; bracts minute ; flowers f in. diam., rose-red ; sepals and 

 petals broadly obovate, widely spreading ; spur longer than the blade of the lip. 



