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Gr. King & R. Panfling— New Orchids from Sikkim. [No. 3, 
J. A. Gammie, Deputy Superintendent of the Government Cinchona 
Plantation in Sikkim, whose work in the cultivation of the medicinal 
species of Cinchona and in the local manufacture of Quinine is so well- 
known and so highly appreciated. The species is allied to G. Mastersii , 
Benth. and C. ajjine, Warn. 
SARCOCHILUS, R. Br. 
Sarcochilus retro-spiculatus, n. spec. Leafless; the roots large, 
numerous and flat. Scape about '75 in. long, bearing at its apex 1 or 2* 
green, minutely bracteolate flowers ’2 in. long. Sepals and petals sub¬ 
equal, linear-lanceolate, wide-spreading, the laterals inserted on the 
sides of the lip. Lip sessile, linear-lanceolate, the apex with a retrorse 
tooth; the base sub-gibbous, side lobes none: the spur globose, its 
mouth contracted. Column very short. Pollinia 4: the caudicle short, 
dilated below the pollinia, the gland ovate. 
Sikkim: at elevations of about 5,000 feet; flowering in June. 
A very inconspicuous species, remarkable for the curious retro- 
flexed apical spicule-like appendage of the lip. 
Sarcochilus crepidiformis, n. spec. A minute leafless plant with 
comparatively large spreading roots. Raceme erect, *35 in. long, flowers 
*15 in. long, bracteate, distichous, opening singly. Sepals sub-equal, 
ovate, blunt. Petals shorter than the sepals, lanceolate. Lip sessile on 
the column, forming a roundish cup with entire edges, about equalling 
the dilated horizontal spur which is pilose just inside its mouth. Column 
very short. Anther thin, with a slightly deflexed fleshy lip. Pollinia 4, 
all attached to a single thread-like caudicle : gland ovate. Ovary long, 
sub-sessile : fruit 1 in. long, cylindric. 
Sikkim: in tropical valleys: flowering in September. 
The sepals and petals of this curious little plant are greenish, the 
lip is white, and the stigma has purple margins. It is named from the 
lesemblance of the combined lip and spur to a slipper or last. 
Sarcochilus bimaculatus, n. spec. Stem very short. Leaves linear- 
oblong, narrowed to the base, sub-falcate, the apex obliquely bifid, 2 in. 
long, and 35 in. broad. Raceme stout, *75 in. long, compressed, and 
with persistent triangular bracts. Flowers confined to the upper half 
of the rachis, distichous, *3 in. in diam., sessile. Sepals suRequal, 
ovate-lanceolate, apiculate, the laterals attached to the base of the 
column. Petals shorter than the sepals, ovate, sub-acute. Lip springing 
at right angles from a short mentum, and lying parallel to the column ; 
its side lobes narrow, elongate, falcate, acute at the apex : apical lobe 
triangular, very fleshy and with two flat calli at its base where the side 
lobes end : the centre of the body of the lip with larger elongate calli 
