-i® • ANNALS or EOYAL BOTANIC GAEDEN, CALCUTTA.
P L A T E 41.
C(ELOGYSE [Elicailorjyne) ovALis, Lindl.
C. ovalis ; rhizoniate repente ramoso vaginato, psetidobulbis obloogis obtusis, foHis
elliptico-lanceolatis acutis 5-uerviis, scapo ex apice pseudobulbi foliis breviore basi vaginato
1—3-floro, bractea magua spathacea caduca, sepalis lateralibus ovato-lanceolatis acutis
pallide brunneisj dorsali oblongo, petalis augustissimc linoaribus filiformibusvej labello
flavo V. albo «tro-purpureo vittato et venoso laxe loHge fimbriato et piloso, lobis lateralibus
rotundatis v. subacutis, terminali lato ovato, disco Inmellia 2 neiTisque validis
pereurso. Lindl in Bot. Reg. 1838 Misc. 91 et Fol Orchid. 12; Walp. A^m. vi. 232.
Hoot f . Fl. Brit. Lid. v. 836. C. fimbriata, lindl. in Wail. Cat. n. 1957; Gri^. Noiul.
iii. 281, et Ic. PI. Asiat. 291. f. i. ? C. pilosissima, FlaJich. Hort. Donat. 104. Broughtonia
linearis, Wall. mss.
H¿B.—TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; from Kümaon eastwards, alt. 4—7,000 ft. KHASIA
HILLS, alt. 4,000 ft.. MUNÍÍIPORE (a large leaved var.), alt. 4,000 ft., Clarice.
Rhizome as tliiek as a goose-quill or less, closely annulate. Fseiidobulhs 2—3 in., flattened,
•with a lai'ge ovate brown basal sheath. Leaves 3—4 in., hardly petioled. Scape. 1—2 in.
flesuous, usually 1-fld. ; bracts elong-ate, acuminate, coriaceous; pedicel -with ovary,
^ in. ; flowers very variable in size. Sepals J—1 in., yellowish-brown, lateral ovatelanceolate,
acuminate, dorsal oblong; petals 1-nerved, extremely narrow, strongly falcately
recurved usually backwards on each side of the dorsal sepal; lip witii a yellow-brown
hypochil and large orbiciilar-ovate epichil, copiously fringed and covered on the surfacc
•with flexuous purple hairs, disk of epichil with a slender median and two broad dark
purjile stripes that meet at the apes, and two ridges or lamelte, one on each side of
t h e median stripe ; very many purple nerves run from the broad outer stripes to the
inargiu. Column long, tip rounded. Capsule 1 in., turgidly pyriform.
A . very variable plant in size, ttougli I hare seen BO specimen approachiDg in this respect that
here figured, the drawing of which is inscribed "Sikkim, 4—6,000 ft. October 1876. G. K " But for
tlie greater size, tliia is hardly if at all distinguishable from C. fimbria'a, Lindl,—a Kbasia species also
found in China, of which the rhizome is no thicker than a duck's quill, and the pseudobulbs J—li ¡n.
long and ovoid-oblong. Indeed unless better characters are found on a comparison of lÍTÍDg specimens
to distinguish these two plants, I think tliey must be united under the name of C. fmóridía, Lindl., in
Wall. Cat. n. 1957. Both species were established by Lindley and described oontomporaneously in 1838,
C. fmhnata at Tab. 868 of the Botiinical Register, and C. ovalis in the Miscellanea of the same year
and volume. C. fuliginosa, Lindl., of Tenasserim (Bot. Mag. 4440), is another far too closely allied
plant.
"Fig. 1, Dorsal sepal; 2, lateml sepulj 3, petals; 4, lip; 5, column; 6, anther; 7, poliinia:—oiZ enlarged.
P L A T E 42.
CCELOGYNE {Eucceioffijne) FLAVIDA, Wall. mss.
C. Jlavida ; rhizomate clongato squamis brevibus ovatLs acutìs arcte inibricafis et
appressis vaginato, pseudobulbis ovoideis v. oblongo ovoideis sulcatis, foliis longe petiolatis
lineari-lanceolatjs acumiuatis multinerviis, scapo pseudobulbo termioali gracili foliis
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broriore apiceni versus vaginis parvis oblongis distichis coriaceis brunneis arcte
imbricatis tecto, racemo brevi erecto, bracteis spathaceis ovario lougioribus deciduis,
floribus parvis stramineis, sepalis oblongis acutis, petalis anguste linearibus obtusis, labelli
lobis lateralibus rotundatis tei-mioali majusculo recurvo cuueatim obcordato, disco tenuiter
2-carinato. C. flavida, Wall. mss.-, Hook. f. Fl. Brìi. Ind. v. 839; Lindl. Fol.
Orchid., Cwloff. 10 {excl. " Auct. Hook. /."); Walp. Ajin.rl 223.
IIAB.—NEPAL, Maviillm. SIKKLM, alt. 1—4,000 ft. KHASIA HILLS, alt. 4—5,000 ft.
Lobi., ^yc. MUNNIPOEE, on Kohima, Prain.
thick as a goose-quill or less, as it were zigzagged superficially by
t h e imbricating triangular brown scales. Pseudobulhs 1—2-^- in., distant on the rliizome.
Leaves 3—6 in., bright green; petiole slender, 1 — i n . Scape 6—10 in., slender, green,
naked up to about one inch below the racemc, where it is clothed with small distichous
closely imbricating convcx glumaceous light-brown scale-like sheaths about J in. long ;
racemc 1—i n . , erect, rather close-fld.; bracts sub-distichous, narrowly oblong, concave,
about ^ in. long or less, deciduous ; pedicel with ovary -J in. ; flowers | in. diam.,
uniformly pale yellow. Sepals oblong, acute ; petals narrowly linear; lip with small
side lobes and a large obcordate midlobe, disk with 2 faint ridges. Capsule -| in.
long, ellipsoid. •
C. flavida belongs to a group of nine Indian species of the genus, with terminal scapes that
bear distichous imbricating scales immediately below tl3e raceme, which is otherwise naked. It would
be interesting to discover the objcct of this singular arrangement. The said scales may be regarded
as greatly reduced empty floral bracts i:ke the small Sowerless glumes beneath the principnl flowerless
ones in some gi-aases, but this is no explanation. A very cmious modification of the scape is represented
at fig. B'., which is token from a specimen in the Wallichian Herbarium, marked in "Wallich's
handwriting as received ftom Mr. Hamilton in Nepal. It presents a scape terminated by an elongate
raohis which hears three superposed series of .distichous persistant imbricating flowerless bracts, separated
by flowering intervals when the raohis is zigzag, and naked from the flowering bracts having fallen
away. The third or uppermost series of flowei-less bracts is succeeded by a continuation of the raehis with
its flowering bracts and "flowers. Of the three naked intervals, the lowest has neither flower nor fruit,
the second bears frmt, the third or terminal is flowering. This aarangement indicates tbreo successive
superposed inflorescenc€8 on the same scape, probably occupying as many years for tlieir devoiop.
ment. I know of no parallel to this in the genus, though such may very well occur. The drawing
here reproduced is of a Khasia specimen and is inscribed "C. flavida, Wall. Mr. Gibson, Cherra."
Fig. 1, bract «nd Cower j 2 orary aud cohimn ¡ 8, dorsal and 4, lateral sepals ; 5, petals ; C, lip ; 7, anther ; 8
poUinia -.—all enlarged.
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CCELOGYNE ? UBIL^LORA, Lindi.
C. ? unijlora, pseudobulbis rhizomate squamoso confertis parvis lagccniformibus
diphyllis squamis distichis membi'anaceis vaginalis, foliis lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis
scapo 0 las i pseudobiilbi brevissimo 1—2 fioro, bracteis pami l i s pedicello decorro brevioribus,
floi-ibus flavis, sepalis laleralibns oblongo-Iairceolatis acuminatis reeurvis, dorsali erede,'
petalis angiislioribas elliptico-lanceolatis acuminatis, labelli a basi subsaccatn patente!
lobis lateralibus fere basilaribua auricuteiormibus patentibus (columnaui non amplectanti'
bus) terminali oboTato-orbicuIari T. subpanduriiorme, disco carinato. Zmdl. in Wall. Cat.