Refugium Botanicum.| [ October, 1872. 
TAB. 109. 
Tribe VANDER. 
Genus Sarcantuus, Lindl. 
S. naxus, Jtchb. f., Bot. Zeit. 1866, 878! Caule abbreviato crasso 
ohgophyllo, densifolo, vaginis brevissimis purpureo-punctatis, 
laminis abbreyiatis oblongis mequaliter seu eequaliter obtuse 
bilobis, valde carnosis, inferne per nervum medium carinatis, 
maculis guttisque purpureis plurimis, racemo elongato pluri- 
floro laxifloro levi, bracteis minutis, floribus carnosulis, sepals 
oblongis obtuse acutis, tepalis hneari-lgulatis obtuse acutis, 
labello crasso deflexo, laciniis posticis erectis lobulatis, lacinia 
media triangula apiculata excavata, calcarl conico, carina de 
fundo calcaris per ineam mediam usque in basin lacinize medic 
ascendente, ibi retusa, medio altiore, columna gracili arrecta, 
rostello ornithorrhyncho, polliniis spheericis bipartitis in caudi- 
cula lineari sessilibus. Flores sordide albidi. Labellum ker- 
mesinum, basi ac caleare albis. Folia prasina, inferne pur- 
pureo-lavata ac maculata. 
This species appeared at the Royal Gardens at Kew in 1865, 
when I saw it in full flower. Itis a discovery of the collector for 
the Rev. Mr. Parish, and may be gathered in the neighbourhood 
of Moulmein. 
Stems very short. Sheaths of leaves with purplish spots. 
Leaves close together, few, short, keeled, very thick, oblong, equally 
or unequally bluntly bilobed or bidentate, keeled on the under side, 
and with numerous purplish spots. taceme (according to the 
artist, also branched, which may be), long, many-flowered, lax, 
“hairless. DBracts very small. Flowers somewhat fleshy. Sepals 
oblong blunt acute. Tepals linear-ligulate blunt acute. Lip thick, 
bent down or forward ; lateral lacinie erect oblong, lobed; middle 
lacimia triangular apiculate, hollowed out; spur conical, a keel 
from the base of the spur on the middle line ascending to the 
base of the middle lacinia, where it is retuse, highest in the 
middle. Column slender, arcuate, with a long beaked rostellum. 
Pollinia two, bipartite, with a single linear caudicle. Leaves leek- 
ereen, clouded with dark violet-purple beneath. J Vower-stalks 
