168 cxLviii. ORCHiDEiE. (J. D. HookeT.) \_Hemipilia. 



leaf ovate or oblong, lip oboordate, spur storter than the sepals, JBeichb. f. 

 in Ot. Hamb. 38 ; Sot. Mag. t. 6920. 



Tbnasseeim ; on limestone rooks at Moulmein, Gilbert, Parish. 



Leaf 3-S in., from almost orbicular-ovate to linear-oblong acute, and slender scape 

 and bracts dark green mottled with brown. Scape with few-fld. racemes 6-8 in.; 

 flowers distant, f in. diam. ; bracts shorter than the ovary ; dorsal sepal oblong, and 

 lateral and petals white ; lip purple, side lobes low, rounded, midlobe broad, 2-lobed ; 

 poUinia small, oblong, adnate to the elongate spathnlate caudicles. 



109. SATVRXUnX, Swartz. . 



Terrestrial leafy erect herbs, tubers undivided. Leaves broad or narrow. 

 Flowers in dense spikes. Sepals and petals subsimilar, free, spreading 

 or deflexed. Lip superior, sessile at the base of the column, erect, broad, 

 hooded, 2-spurred or -saccate behind. Column erect, terete ; stigma terminal, 

 broad, concave, [or forming with the rostellum a 2-lipped body ; anther 

 dorsal, cells subparallel ; pollinia 2, 'caudicles recurved, glands large naked 

 sometimes connate. — Species 50, African and Indian. 



S. nepalense^ Don Prodr. 26 ; lAndl. Gen. & 8p. Orchid. 340 ; in, 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 44 ; Wight Ic. t. 929 ; Bot. Mag. t. 6625 ; Wall Cat. 

 7025. S. Perrottetianum, A. Bich. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 2, xv. 76, t. 53 ; 

 Wight Ic. t. 1716. S. albiflornm, A. JRicli. I. c. ; Wight Ic. t. 1717. S. 

 pallidum, A. Sich. I. c. 



Tempeeate Himalaya, from Kashmir, alt. 4-6000 ft., eastwards, ascending to 

 14,000 ft. in Sikkim. Khasia Hilis, alt. 4-6000 ft. The Deccan Peninsula, from 

 Conoan to Travancore. Ceilok, alt. 4-6000 ft. PBuema; Shan states, alt. 4fl00 

 ft , Manders. 



Stem with spike 6-30 in., usually very stout, sheathed above. Leaves few, from 

 oblong to linear-oblong, 4-10 by 2-4 in., rather fleshy, sessile, base sheathing. 

 Spike 1-6 in., dense-fld. ; bracts much larger than the flowers, oblong or lanceolate, 

 erect spreading or recurved ; ovary turgid, ^ in. long ; flowers from dark pink to 

 white, fragrant ; sepals linear-oblong, obtuse, spreading and recurved ; petals rather 

 narrower ; lip superior, broadly oblong, concave, strongly keeled on the back, spurs 

 variable in length and stoutness, about as long as the ovary ; column contracted and 

 terete at the base ; anther broad, cells turgid, tubes short, pollinia clavate, caudicles 

 short, glands orbicular; stigma large, concave.— A very common and variable plant. 

 The Burmese specimen has orbicular leaves at the very base of the stem. 



Var. Wightiana ; radical leaves few broad, spike short dense-fld. S. Wighti- 

 fnum, Lindl. Ben. Sf Sp. Orchid. 340; in Journ. Linn. Soc. I. a. ; Wiglit Ic. 1. 1718. 

 — Nilghiri Mts. 



Var. ciliata, Lindl. 1. 1. e. ; a small plant with spurs hardly longer than the 

 sepals.— Sikkim, alt. 7-12,000 ft., J. D. H. Bhotan, alt. 10,000 ft., Griffith. . 



110. DXSPEXtXS, Swartz. 



Terrestrial leafy herbs ; tubers entire. Leaves 2 or more, scattered, sessile, 

 cordate. Flowers solitary or few. Dorsal sepal very narrow, coherent 

 with the broad petals into a subglobose hood ; lateral spreading or deflexed, 

 free or bases connate, disk with a depression within answering to a cone 

 without. Lip confluent with the column to above the anther, appearing as 

 if it surmounted the column. Column short in the Indian species, terete 

 below, stigmas on a transverse hyaline membrane, the ends of which form 

 twisted tubular processes that sheath the caudicles and ftlands of the 



