AN:S"ALS OF EOYAL BOTANIC GAEDEIÍ, CALCUTTA.
P L A T E CO.
D O E I T I S BEACEAXA, Hook. Y.
D. Bracearía-, subacaulis, foliis liueaa-i-oblongis obtusis v. subacutis coriacois, scajMS
erectis crassis viridibus mbro-puuctatis 8—10 floris, bractois rainutis, floribus nutantibus
pedicellis crassiuseulis decurvis, sepalis petalisque obovato-oblougis obtusia flaris costa
i-ufesceiite, labelJi violacei lobis lateralibus ovato-Iauceolatis subacutis appoiidicula parva
furcata interposita, terminali spathulato-obovafco apico rotuudato, mento elongato
calcariformo. Kook. f . Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 196.
H A I Í . — S I K K I M OK BHOTAN-HIMALAYA, Gamble.
Boots very n-nmerous, long, flat, apparently pubescent. Stem about i in. long,
clothed witb the browu sliort sheaths of old leaves. Loaves ia the di-awiiig, two, one
2i by nearly 1 in., straight, rounded at both ends, very dark green and grooved down
the middle, appaieutly thickly coriaceous ; the other about 2 by ^ in,, acute. Scapes 2,
nearly as thick as a crow-quill from the base to the top of the raceme, with one or
two flowerless bracts, dark green, speckled with red-brown ; bracts ovate, greeu, about
iV in. long ; pedicels with ovary f in. long ; flowers nearly 1 in. diam. Zip
niembranons, midlobe narrowed to the base ; mentuin as long as the erect sidelobes.
CoiMm large, stout, fleshy; pollinia 4 (2 bipartite ?) subglobose.
A very singular species from its very stout habit, luiid greea foHago, and in tlaes9 respects and
its many-ñd. erect raceme very unlike its congeners kno^va to me, but witli the flower quite that
of D. t a c M in general character and ia the colour of the lip. I have seen no specimens, and
hare described it from the djawing in Herb. Calcutta, and from notes made by Mr. Brace from the
living plants which flowered in the Calcutta Botanio Garden, and which were brought to
Mr. Gamble at Darjeeling hy a Bhotea coUector in 188'2. I dedicated it to Mr. Brace, sometime
employed in the Herbarium of the Royal Garden, Calcutta.
Pig- 1, flower; 2. tlio same wilt the lip removed; 3 iip-.—al¿ eniarged.
P L A T E 61.
SARCOCHILUS {Pieroceras) IIUKICULATTRS, Hook. / .
S. muriciiìatus-, acaulis v. caule brevi, foliis late oblongis v. loriformibus S-fidis
flaccidis medio canaKoulatis, scapo foKis breviore rachique viscidis, sepalis pctalisque
Jate ovatis subacutis primuHnis v. albis vittis 2 traiisveris purpureis v. roseis notatis,
sepalis lateralibus basi labelli v. pedi column® adnatis, labello saccato, sacco conico, lobis
latcralibus erectis late ovatis v. quadi-atis apicibus sinuato-lobulatis intermedio minuto
truncate v. bifido pubescente, columna longiuscula, rostello brevi acuto. Beichb. f . in
Gard. Chron. 1881, ii. 198; Hook. f . Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 34.
H A B . — A N D A Ì I A N ISDS., Ktirs, Berkeley.
Stem sometimes 6—8 in. long, rooting below. Leaves 6—9 by 1—in. , pale green,
unequally bifid, the lobes and sinus acute or rounded. Scape rather slender,
with the raceme 2—3 in., green speckled with red; bracts broad, minute; pcdicels with
ovary i in. ; flowers ^ in. diani., sweet-scented. Lip about a» long as the sepals, variable
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in the size of the lateral lobes. Column incurved; anther broadly ovate, acute; pollinia
globose or ovoid; strap short, flat; gland small.
Thero is considerable discrepancy in the analyses made
from the original dried specimen collected by
some detached flowers which accompanied
foot of the column, and the insertion along it
s should be referred to section YI, according
British India. Much better specimens are
which in one flower when spread out took
Kurz' and Eeichenbach's description and my analysis of
the drawing here reproduced. In the latter the length of the
of the lateral sepals (fig. 1), would indicate that the specie:
to the arrangement of the species given in the Flora of
required to arrive at a satisfactory knowledge of the lip,
the form of figure 2, being simply cuneiform. The
from a plant that was brought from the Andaman
flowered in the Calcutta Botanio Garden, 5-5-84.
made under Mr. Brace's directions
by a native collector (Abdulla), and which
Fig. 1, portion of lateral sepal, i
anllier; 5, pollinia-.—oW eiiZarfferf.
petal, lip and column; 2, lip (imperfect?) from a dried flower; 3, column; 4,
P L A T E 62.
SAECOCHILUS [Pieroceras) STENOGLOTTIS, Hook. f .
S. stenogloitis-, caule brevi robusto, foHis elongatis late loriformibus decurvis subbilobis
V. emarginatis, scapis deflesis v. pendulis foliis multo brevioribus apices versus
plurifloais, bracteis ovatis rufis, floribus stramineis v. fere albis, sepalis oblongis obtusis,
petalis angustioribus Hneaii-oblongis acutis, labello breviter unguiculato a latere valde
compresso subcymbiforme marginibus undulatis basi breviter 2-auriculato, in appendiccm
T. calcar claviforme rectum obtusuni producto, columna basi constricta anguste alata,
rostello decurvo. Hook f . Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 34.
H A B . — P E E A K ? Scoriechiiii. DISTKIR. Sumatra.
Stem 1—2 in., as thick as the thumb. Leaves many, apparently flaccid, 6—12 by IJ 2
in., pale green, nearly flat; sheaths very short and broad. Scapes^—4 in., dark purple or
red-brown, sheathed with a few small acute bracts; rachis of many-fld. raceme i ^ l in.,
rather thickened (or flattened ?) subserrate from the peristent bracts (as in sect. Forniearia);
pcdicels with ovary ^ in., slender. Flowers about i — f in, diam., white with a faint
yellow tinge and a few red markings towards the base of the perianth. Sepals and petals
many-nerved. Lip very singular, longer than the sepals, white, strongly laterally
compressed, curvcd like a boat, forming a long fleshy narrow cup with undulate lip.s
running half way along the upper margin, and then contracting into a club-shaped
terminal appendage, which I take to be a modified spur or sac, and which, instead of
being inserted beneath the body of the lip, is in a straight line -n-ith the latter
Anther shortly beaked, membranous; pollinia oblong; strap spathulate; gland small.
I t is not possible to describe the lips of Sarcochili so as to convey any tolerable idea of their
form and structure, and to draw them with, accuracy is very difficult from living specimens and
impracticable from dried ones. The drawing of the plant here reproduced was insciibed "Malaya
Kunstler Fid. in H. B. C. 4-8-83. Sumatra Orchid." The analyses were made by myself from detached
flowers in a pocket attached to the drawing.
fig. 1, dorsal, and 2, lateral sepals; 3, petal; 4, side *
polHuiom -.—all enlarged.
T of colnmo and lip ; 6, front v of lip ; 6, anther; 7
ANN. HOY. BOT. GAUD. CALC., VOL. Y.