C. elegans is a Himalayan species ; it was discovered by 

 WaUich in 1821, in the forests of Nepal. I met with it in 

 Sikkim at an elevation of 7000 feet, and in the Khasia 

 Mountains at a lower elevation. Further east it has been 

 found by Mr. C. B. Clarke on Kohima, a mountain in 

 Munuepore, at an elevation of 5400 feet. The specimen 

 figured was sent to the Royal Gardens, Kew, by Mr. 

 Gustav Mann in 1885, and flowered in November, 1887.^ 



Desce. Stems crowded, short, clothed at the base with 

 the brown distichous equitant truncate bases of the old 

 leaves, at length swollen and pseudobulbous. Leaves twelve 

 to eighteen inches long, very numerous, recurved, strap- 

 shaped, one-half to three-quarters of an inch in diameter, 

 dark green above, grooved down the centre, paler keeled 

 and striate beneath, tip minutely two-fid. Scape four to 

 six inches long, arising from amongst the leaves, slender, 

 erect, green, clothed with deciduous sheaths. Raceme six 

 to ten inches long, pendulous, very many- and dense- 

 flowered, cylindric-oblong, three to four inches in diameter ; 

 flowers imbricating, shortly pedicelled ; bracts minute, 

 subulate. Perianth one and a half inches long, rather 

 funnel-shaped, dull yellow or straw-coloured. Sepals 

 linear-oblong, erect, with acute spreading or recurved tips. 

 Petals like the sepals. Lip as long as the petals, loosely 

 embracing the column, narrowly wedge-shaped, three-lobed; 

 lateral lobes very narrow, subacute, the inner margin 

 sinuate ; disk with two very close orange- coloured medial 

 ridges that are swollen at the base of the lip, and do not 

 extend to the midlobe; midlobe rather small, tongue-shaped, 

 obtuse. Column slender. Pollen-masses pyriform, sessile 

 on a large subquadrate gland. — /. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Lip ; 2, column ; 3, anther j 4 and 5, pollen-masses : — all enlarged. 



