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near its union with the mentum. Stigma large. Bostellum small. 
Follinia ovoid, the caudicle oblanceolate; the gland very small, ovoid. 
Capsule 1'5 in. long, triquetrous. 
Sikkim: in the valley of tlie Teesta; elevation about 1,500 feet: 
flowering in July. 
The flowers are white, with two blotches of brown on the calli of 
the lip. They open singly and smell of almonds. 
SACCOLABIUM, Blume. 
Saccolabium pseudo-distichum, ii. spec. Stems slender, 6 to 9 in. 
long, slightly branching. Scares fleshy, lanceolate, the apex finely and 
minutely bifid, *5 to *75 in. long, and *2 to *25 in. broad. Peduncle 
*35 in. long, sub-umbellately 5- or 6-flowered. Flowers '3 in. in diam. 
bracts minute. Sepals and petals sub-equal, oblanceolate-oblong. Lip 
with a wide hemispheric spur; side lobes absent; terminal lobe 
broadly cordate, blunt, entire, fleshy, concave, deflexed, quite without 
callus. Column very short. Follinia 2, entire, ovoid-globose; gland 
deeply 2-lobed. 
Sikkim: at elevations of 6,000 to 8,000 feet; flowering time August 
to October. 
This grows along with S. distichum Lindl. to which it is closely 
allied. As in that species the sepals and petals are greenish or 
yellowish with purple spots ; the lip in this is yellow, except the 
terminal lobe which is orange. The chief distinction between the two is 
to be found in the lip which, in this, is entirely without calli of any kind ; 
while, in S. distichum , the lip has two large calli situated at its base. 
The times of flowering of the two are moreover separated by three 
months. 
Neottieae. 
CHEIROSTYLIS, Blume. 
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Cheirostylis Franchetiana, n. spec. Boots short tubercular. Stem 
6 to 9 in. long, the nodes slightly swollen. Leaves few, scattered, 
glabrous ; linear-lanceolate and much reduced in the flowering plant; 
in the young plant '25 to "35 in. long, ovate and shortly petiolate. 
Raceme pubescent, 1- to 2-flowered. Flowers '25 to '3 in. long, with 
ovate bracts shorter than the ovary. Sepals oblong, curved, con¬ 
nate for one-third their length ; the dorsal concave, shorter than the 
laterals. Petals broad, sub-quadrate, with an oblique central nerve. 
Lip slightly exceeding the sepals, abruptly deflexed from a saccate base .; 
the limb very shortly clawed, deeply divided into two linear obliquely 
sub-acute rather divergent lobes. Column with two pyriform processes 
