Cleisostoma.] OXLVIIL ORCHIDEE, (J. D. Hooker.) 75 
Assam, Mann. SIKKIM? (Jc. in Herb. Calcutt.) 
lhave seen but one specimen; it is as small as C. undulatum, from which it 
differs in the much longer stouter peduncle and raceme, and very small flowers about 
Ys in. diam, (pale golden yellow flushed with red at the base of the sepals and 
petals, according to the Sikkim drawing). Dorsal scale of spur erect, 2-fid ; column 
very short, anther broad, obtuse, pollinia subglobose, strap dilated upwards, rather 
long, gland small. 
44. C. decipiens, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1884, Misc. 11; leaves 8-10 by 
lin. thick purple dotted beneath, peduncle simple or branched, spike 
many-fld., sepals and petals ovate or oblong-ovate,lip broader than long 
entire, spur short broad gibbous. C. maculosum, Thwaites Enum. 304 (C. 
P, 3885) (not of Lindl.) C.'Thwaitesianum, Trimen in Journ. Bot. 1886, 
CEYLON ; on trees in the low country, Thwaites (C.P. 3193). 
, A drawing of this plant from the Perideniya Herbarium represents the stem iy 
in. long, the leaves 5-6 by ł-1 in., lorate, unequally obtusely 2-lobed, sheaths $ in. 
long, and underside of leaf speckled with purple. Flowering peduncle stout, 
speckled with purple, with the dense-fid. spike 2 in., lengthening to 6 in. in fruit ; 
racts minute, subulate ; flowers 1 in. diam., yellowish, more or less suffused with 
ted. Capsule sessile, $ in. linear-oblong.—The specimen in Lindley’s herbarium 
(from Hort. Leddiges) consists of an imperfect leaf 4 by 2 in. anda few inches of a 
branched panicle, the flowers not 1 in. diam., are crowded in elongate spikes with a 
stout rachis. The sepals as drawn by Lindley are obovate-oblong, obtuse, reddish- 
brown, with a broad golden margin ; side lobes of lip erect, truncate, midlobe white, 
spur yellowish; dorsal scale of spur broad erect; column and rostellum very short ; 
strap of globose pollinia linear, with an apiculate tip.—Trimen rightly suspects his 
wattesianum to be Lindley's decipiens. 
15. C. bicuspidatum, /ook. f.; leaves 3-4 by 1-lin. acutely 2-fid, 
raceme lax-fld. much shorter than the leaves, sepals orbicular-obovate obtuse, 
Petals oblong-obovate, side lobes of lip plicate truncate, midlobe very 
stout ovate acute incurved, spur cylindric longer than the sepals obtuse. 
H em HIMALAYA ; near Darjeeling, Anderson (in Herb. Calcutt.). KHASIA 
MES; alt. 2000 ft., Mann. "TlENASSERIM, Parish (1c. in Hort. Calcutt.). 
une em very short. Leaves flat, narrowed towards the base, lobes very acute, often 
b qual, the longer in.  Peduncle with 5-6-fd. simple or branched raceme 2-5 in. ; 
dln small, ovate ; flowers 3 in. diam., spreading or reflexed; sepals and petals 
^ lowish-green, with a median stripe; lip white, speckled or flushed with rose, 
Zi enger than the sepals, mouth infundibular with a thickened ridge, dorsal callus 
globose” column very short, rostellum long decurved; anther beaked; strap of 
pollinia dilated upwards, tip rounded produced beyond the pollinia, margins 
recurved, gland minute. P Bb ` 
SPECIES UNKNOWN TO ME. 
"m MSCOLOR, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1845, Misc. 59; leaves oblong channelled 
sepa], o, P Aneate, peduncle long slender dull purple branched at the extremity, 
in s "ent -ovate 9-nerved, and petals elliptic, both dull yellow with a greenish 
oneal Ip 3-fid, side lobes plicate with a conical caruncle in the inner faces within, 
India woth undivided keeled, spur longer than the sepals obtuse nearly white.— 
Ve ( ort. Loddiges). In Lindley's fragment the leaf is 3} by nearly 1 in., the 
Ty slender peduncle has some small ovate obtuse sheaths; bracts small, broad, 
‘nous ; fl. buds about 1 in. diam., membranous; spur cylindric, longer than the 
continue walls thin; side lobes of lip truncate, subcrenate ; midlobe very short 
Callus bela with the side lobes, incurved, ovate, acute, concave, thin, without calli; 
With r ow the column 2-lobed, puberulous; pollinia each didymous, strap clavate 
*curved margins, gland very small. 
