828 CXLVIII. ORCHIDEX. (J. D. Hooker.) | Trichosma. 
E. coronaria, Reichb. f. in Walp. Ann. vi. 272, and in Gard. Chron. 1876, 
234. CUcelogyne coronaria, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1841, Misc. 83. 
SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 5-6000 ft., and K Hasira Hits, alt. 4-5000 ft. ked 
Stems 3-6 in., from an underground soft rhizome, as thick as a goose-qur, Pol 
fleshy ; basal sheaths few, lax. Leaves ovate-lanceolate acuminate, thick, igir 
Scape 1-2 in., 2—4-fld.; bracts large ; pedicel with ovary ł-1 in. ; flowers Tate; 
yellowish. or purplish, sweet-scented; lateral sepals 3-4 in. long, ovate- ilow with 
petals oblong ; lip subsessile, ovate-oblong, streaked with purple ; disk "h lobe ; 
2 thick crenate ridges between the side lobes, and 7 on the suborbicular m j 
anther rather fleshy. 
34. CHLOGYNE, Lindi. 
. . : ' -)leaved. 
Epiphytes ; rhizome creeping; pseudobulbs 2-(rarely 1) 
Leaves coriaceous, or thin and plaited. Scape usually short; Hower 
usually racemed, rarely (except in sect. Pleione) 2 or solitary i o bale 
long, sheathing, deciduous. Sepals subequal, lateral saccato Ar and em- 
Petals narrower. Lip sessile at the base of the column, erec foot 0; 
bracing it, base concave or saccate. Column long, erect, ee cohering 
top hooded, membranous; anther more or less 2-celled ; pollini la an. 
in pairs by a granular viscus.—Species about 70, Indian and Malay 
eveloped 
In some species of this genus the flowers are produced from mE is quite 
pseudobulbs; in others only from the fully developed ; and this c ar seudobulbs 
constant. Again, in some species which flower from the undevelope coriaceous or 
the sheaths of the flowering scape are closely imbricating, and a r one or two 
membranous; in others the inner sheaths are more or less foliactow it species, ut 
may form fully developed leaves. ‘This character does not so well of the species 
is very useful. Lastly, the presence or absence of sheaths on the senpe very constan 
which flower from the mature pseudobulb, and their position, affor ters suggest? 
characters, A consideration of these hitherto partially recognized charac 
the following arrangement of the Indian species. 
-» 9-lobed, the 
Sect. I. EUCŒLOGYNE. Flowers and leaves cowtaneous. Lip 3-lobed, 
terminal lobe spreading. 
* Flowers from an undeveloped pseudobulb at the base of th 
Sheaths of the scape all basal. 
T Sheaths of the scape imbricating, none becoming fo 
in C. suaveolens, occultata, breviscapa & sulfurea). . istata). —SP 1-8. 
§ Racemes pendulous or decurved, many-fld. (or few-fld. in C. — 9-20. 
$8 Racemes erect or inclined, rarely drooping, many- or few:fld.— Ü suaveolens, 
tt Inner sheaths of the scape more or less foliaceous. (See also V 
occultata, breviscapa & sulfurea).—Sp. 21-29. 
** Flowers from the top of the mature pseudobulb. 
+ Scape sheathed at the base only.—Sp. 30-35. S 36-38. 
tt Scape not sheathed either at the base or beneath the raceme. "P 
ttt Scape with distichous imbricating sheaths below the r* 
Sp. 39-47. leaves (except 
Sect. II. PLEIONE. Flowers appearing before or after ren 
C. -Hookeriana) trom the base of the mature pseudobulb. Lip 
with a shovel.shaped mouth, very obscurely 3-lobed.—Sp- 48-93. 
Doubtful species.—Sp. 54-55. 
e ol d pseudobulb. 
imes 
liaceous (except somet 
t. 38; 
Sect. I. Euc«arocYNE (see above). 
l R j 33; 
Cc G r ar l. 
. a ardneriana, Lindl. in W all. 4 L As. 
