68 OXLviii. OECHiDEiB. (J. D. Hooker.) [Sareanthug. 



The Decoan Peninsula; on the Ghats from the Ooncan to Travancore. 

 Cbtion ; in the Saffragam district. 



S/em 10-12 in., as thick as a duck's qnill, flexnous, pendulous. Leaves uniform, 

 6-8 by J-^ in., rigid, strict or curved, 3-5-nerved, acuminate, tip obtuse, slieaths 

 ribbed. Racemes slender, bracts minute; flowers i in. diam., greenish or yellow 

 with pink margins and a violet lip ; sepals and petals rather spreading ; spur 

 more or less perfectly 2-celIed, dorsal callus small ; column short ; anther beaked, 

 pollinia didymous, strap slender dilated upwards, gland small. Capsule |-| in., 

 deflexed, narrowly oblong. 



6. S. insectifer, Seichb. f. in Bot. Zeit. 1857, 159; leaves many 

 J by f in. oblong amplexicaul, spikes very short stout few-fld., sepals ovate- 

 oblong obtuse, petals oblong, side lobes of lip rounded, midlobe large trian- 

 gular-ovate fleshy, spur short broadly conical. 



Behab ; at Burkutta, J. S. H. Cachar, Mann. Chittaqono (Jo. in Sort. 

 CaJoutt.). Tekassebim, Parish. 



Stem a foot and upwards, robust, scandent, thicker than a goose-quill. Leaves 

 Euhimbricate, obliquely obtusely 2-lobed with sometimes an intermediate apicnlus, 

 thickly coriiiceous. Spikes \ in., sessile; bracts small, deciduous; flowers J in. 

 diam., greenish-yellow striped with red-brown; lip white and pink or purple, mid- 

 lobe acute or acuminate, spur semiseptate mouth with a pubescent ridge, dorsal 

 callus large ; column very short, stout, tip reclinate and with uncinate recurved 

 arms; anther truncate, pollinia globose didymous, strap short very broad, gland 

 transverse. 



7. &■ Scortechinii, Hook. f. ; leaves 3-5 by 1;^ in. subpetioled 

 oblong-lanceolate acute flat, spike about equalling the leaves very stout 

 many-fld., sepals oblong acute, petals half as broad, side lobes of lip ob- 

 solete, midlobe hastately deltoid, spur longer than the sepals conical obtuse 

 curved. 



Pebae, Scortechini ; on rocks, Wray. 



Stem elongate, robust, as thick as a goose-qnill. Leaves very thick. Spikes 

 2-6 in., flowers i in. diam. ; sepals and petals lurid pnrple with green midrib and 

 margins; lip | in., yellowish, spur 2-celled, dorsal callus large ; column short ; anther 

 obtusely beaked ; pollinia 4, broadly oblong, strap linear. Capsules 1 in., 

 linear -oblong, deflexed. — Described from fruiting specimens and a drawing by 

 Scortechini. 



8._S. pallidus, Lindl. jn Bot. Beg. 1840, Misc. 78 ; in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. iii. 39 ; leaves 10-14 in. lorate flat, panicle very large copiously 

 branched laxly many-fld., sepals and smaller petals oblong obtuse, side 

 lobes of lip triangular acuminate, midlobe a small incurved ovate acute 

 fleshy beat, spur a cylindiio obtuse sac. S. racemifer, Beichb. f. in Wulp. 

 Ann. vi. 891. S. tricolor, B.f. in Bonpland. ii. 21t<. Saccolabium racemi- 

 ferum, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 224. Aerides racemiferum. Wall. wss. 



East Nepal, alt. 4000 ft., J. D. H. Bhotait and the Khasia Hiils, 

 alt. 4-6000 ft., Wallich, &c. Bubma, Berkeley. 



Stem as thick as the thumb ; roots very stcut. Leaves very coriaceous, 2 in. 

 broad, deeply obtusely 2-lobed. Fanicle with the stout peduncle 2-3 ft., branches 

 long, slender; bracts at the forks ovate-lanceolate, floral subulate, persistent; 

 pedicel with ovary \ in. ; flowers ^ in. diam. ; sepals and petals dark purple edged 

 with yellow ; lip white, spur thiik-walled, about as long as the sepals, semiseptals 

 longitudinally, dorsal osillns 2-lohed ; column short, stout, rostellum obscure ; 

 anther broad, acute, pollinia oblong, strap dilated above, gland small. Capsule 

 f in., ellipsoid or clavate. — The E. Nepal sptcimen has shorter leaves and an ellipsoid 

 capsule. 



