28 rEOPDSSOE LINBLEy's COyTBlBUTIONS TO 



a plant with leaves 2 feet long, If broad, and a raceme almost as 

 dense as in C. elegans. "Wight's figure resembles C. pendulum ; 

 but that does not seem to be a continental species. O. erectum 

 (Wight, Ic. 1753) is very near this ; I have not seen it. 



177. C. cyperifolium, Wallich, Cat. No. 7353. (Cymbidium viridi- 

 florum. Griff. Itin. Notes, p. 126, No. 454.) 



Khasija, J. D. H. Sf T. T. (267) ; Bootan, Griffith. 



The long leaves of this resemble those of some Carex ; its long 

 linear-lanceolate bracts far overtopping the flowers ; and the linear 

 distant straight lamellae are quite peculiar. 



178. C. cochleare; foliis longissimis angustissimis caricinis, racemo 

 debili multifloro, bracteis obsoletis, sepalis petalisque linearibus acu- 

 minatis, labello angusto versus apicem dilatato trilobo laraellis in 

 cochlear semiliberura apice confluentibus. 



Sikkim, in hot valleys, J. D. H. (235). 



The habit is that of C. ci/perifoUum ; but the bracts are almost 

 obsolete, the very narrow sepals, petals, lip, and column are full 

 2 inches long, and the lamellae of the perfectly bald lip are united 

 into a spoon-shaped process attached by its middle. The form of 

 the end of the lip is unknown to me. 



179. C. eburaeum, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1847, t. 67. (C. syringodorum, 

 Griff. Not. iii. 338.) 



Khasija mountains, Myrung, Griffith. 



180. C. affine, Griffith, Not. iii. 336, t. 291. 

 Khasija hills, Surureem, Griffith. 



It is impossible to reconcile the statements made for Grriffitli 

 by his editor, without assuming that some confusion of papers 

 has taken place. This plant, which I have from himself with his 

 own name, is evidently that to which the second description of 

 his C. densiflorum applies, and has nothing to do with the first 

 description, which applies either to a variety of C, elegans, or to 

 something very near it. The hairy middle lobe of the lip assists 

 in distinguishing this from C elegans, to which it approaches. 



181. C. elegans, Lindl. Gen. Sf Sp. Orch. 163, No. 9, Sertum Orchi- 

 daceum, 1. 14. (Cyperorchis elegans, Blume, Mns. Lugd. Bot. i, 48. 

 C. densiflorum, Griffith, Not. iii. 337, so far as the first description 

 goes.) 



Khasija hills, 5000-6000 feet, J.B. H. ^' T. T. (231) ; Myrung, Grif- 

 fith; Darjeeling, Id.; Sikkim, Cathcart, 5000-8000 feet, J. D. H. 

 (232). 



This species varies greatly in the number of orange-yellow flowers 



