iii, 356; Itiii. Notes 170, No, 869; Ic. PI. As. t. 334; Walp. Ann, TI. 833 • Hoot f
>•1. Br, Ind, Yi, 60; King & PanfHng in Ann, E, Bof, Gard, Calo. viii, 225, I. 30o'
Mnles eak-olare Smith in Koos Oyclop,, SuppI, leopMomm Woll, MSS, GadneUU^
c,Maris Don. Prod. 32. Sm-cochUui nepalaau Spreng. Syst. Veg. iii, 721 Epidemnm
aalceolars Ham. MSS.
Dehra Dun, Gamlh No. 25639, MacUnmn; Qai-hwil, B i W r , Duthkh colUctor
No, 2o81i, rioweis during April and May, It extends eastwards lo Nepal, Sitkini and
tlie Khaaia Hills.
3. SACCOLABIUM DISTICHUM Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii, 64.
Stem 1-5 to 2'5 dm. long, pendulous, branching, slender, leafy. Leaves 2 to 2-5
cm. long, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, with two, rarely three, fine setaj; the base
sessile and slightly obKnue. PedmeUi leaf-opposed, about equalling the leaves in length
Flomn two to lour in a lax raceme, 12 mm, across, green, irregularly spotted with h r o m -
fioml imet oblong, subacute. Sepals and petals snbequal, oblong-elliptic, obtuse. Lip about
as long as the sepals, adnate to the lower half of the column, the base with a wide blunt
sac at right angles to the ovary, its inner surface without hairs or calli; side lobes none •
terminal lobe yellow, semicircular, entir-e, smooth, fleshy, its margins deflexed the base
with two blunt conical calli, Celmm broad ; rostetlum short, broad. Anther shortly beaked
in f r o n t ; pollimii 2, elliptic; caudicle long, slender, cylindnc; gland elongate, bi6d.
Capsule fusiform, about I -5 cm, long, Eeichb, f, in Ot, Hamb, 43 ; Hook, ° f , Fl, Br!
Ind, vi, 64 ; in Ann. R, Bot. Gard, Calc. v, 49, t, 7,1 (in part) ; King & Pantlin.^ in
Ann, E. Bot. Gard. Gale, viii, 227, t. 303,
Garhwal, near Tehri, 6,000 feet, Maekinmn's eollecior (Duthie's No. 24196); Sub-
Himalayau tract of the Bahraich district in N. Oudh, DitUae's eollecior No. 23869.
Flowers in April and May. It extends eastwards te Sikkim and Manipur.
26. cieisostoma Blume.
Epiphytes without pseudo-bulbs. Stems more or less elongated, leafy. Leaver
coriaceous or fleshy, flat or semiterete. hjlorescence leaf-opposed, racemose or paniculate.
Sepals and petals adnate to the column, snbequal, spreading. Lip sessile on the footless
column, the base with a large saccate or infuudihuliform spur, sometimes dilated at the
apex, its cavity more or less closed by two calli the posterior of which is often bifid,
and sometimes also by a dorsal scale, but never by a septum; lateral lobes small or
absent; apical lobe thickened, concave. Cohmn shoi-t, thick, without a foot. Anther
depressed; pollinia 2, often bifid, caudicie single,-Species about 40, Eastern Asiatic and
Australian,
CLKISOSTOMA M i c E A S T H U M King & Panlling
t, 312,
Ann, E, Bot, Gard, Cale,
Stem stout, compressed, 7-5 to 20 cm, long, enveloped in Icaf-slieaths, Leaves 6-5
lo 9 cm, locg, narrowly oblong, keeled, obliquely trancate and slightly bifid, the base
shortly sheathed. Racemes leaf-opposed, longer than the leaves, peduncle and rachis
stout, I'hwers many, 6 mm. across; Jloral bract broad, blunt, less than half as loJig as
S A E C A N T H t J S . 149
the short sessile ovary. Sepals and petals white with large purple spots. Sepals broadly
ovate, obtuse, spreading. Petals smaller than the sepals, oblong, spreading. Lip
fieshy, pink or purple, as long as the sepals; the base with a wide bluni spur
adpressed to and as long as the ovary, its interior with two calli near the mouth,
one on the back wall and a larger one on the anterior wall ; dorsal scale absent; lateral
lobes small ; the terminal lobe oblong, convex, blunt, its edges thin and erese, upper
surface smooth. Column very short, stout, without a foot, but with a large protuberance
on either side of the restellum. Anther depressed, with a long pointed beak; pollinia 2,
obovoid, caudicie triangular, cordate or oblong, attached to a small triangular gland!
Saceolaiium micranllmm Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7300; Gen. and Sp. Orch. 220; Saunder's
Eefug. Bot. t. 110; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. vi, 59.
Dehra Dun, Vicarij, Maokinnm; Garhwal Falconer, Duthie's collector No. 25809;
Kumaon in the Gori Valley 2-3,000 feet, Duthie. Flowers during June and J u l y , It
extends eastwards to Sikkim, the Naga and lOiasia Hills; also in Tenasserim,
27, Sarcanthus Lindi,
Epiphytes without pseudo-bulbs. Stems usually elongate. Leaves fleshy, terete or
flat. Lnjlorescence extra-axillary, racemose or paniculate. Sepals subequal, all spreading"
or reflesed, or fcho dorsal concave and connivent over the column. Petals smaller than
the sepals, spreading. Lip adnate to the base of the column or of its foot, rarelyjointed
; the base with an infundibuliform spur sometimes dilated at the apex, the
interior with a eallas both on the anterior and posterior wall, and always divided into
two lateral compartments by a vertical antero-posterior septum; lateral lobes small, more
or less triangular and acute; apical lobe small, triangular or hastate. Column short
stout, often with a foot as long as or longer than itself. Anther depressed; pollinia 2,
bifid.—Species about 35, in Eastern Tropical Asia.
SARCANTHUS ISSECTIFER Reichb, f. in Bot. Zeit. (1857), 159.
Siem 3 dm. or more in length, scandent, robust, flexuous, giving off on all sides
elongate fibres. Zeam crowded and almost imbricate, 3'5 to 5 era. long, distichously
spreading, oblong, amplexicaul, obtusely 2-lobed, rigidly coriaceous, liacema nearly
sessile, shorter than the leaves, few-flowered, decurved, rachis thick; floral iracts minute,
deciduous. Floioen 13 mm. across. Sepals and petals 3-nerved, yollo-wish-green striated
with red. Sepals ovate-oblong, obtuse or subacute. Petals oblong. Lip broadly funnel
shaped, with a ring of hairs at its mouth, tapering into a conical spur, white to rose or
purple; side lobes short; terminal lobe larger than the sepals, triangular-ovate or cordate,
thickened under the attenuated apex; spi^r septate. Column very short. Anther hemispheric
; pollinia sulcate, attached to a short ^quadrate stipe broader than long; gland
transverse membranous. Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. vi, 68.
Outer Garhwiil bills near the Ramganga Valley, Duthie's colleetor No. 25817; Sub-
Hiiiiaiayan tract of the Bahraich district of N. Oudh, Duthie's collector No. 23869.
Flowers in September. It extends eastwards to Behar, Cachar and Chittagong and is
iound also in Tenasserim.