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collected in its great oblong nodding racemes. In all states it is 

 to be known by the connivent sepals and petals, and probably also 

 by the presence of a pair of teeth near the base of the two con- 

 tiguous parallel lamella). I must however observe, that I cannot 

 find the latter in my specimens of C, densiflorum^ from Griffith, 

 although he describes them as being present. 



182. C. longifolium, D. lion ; JAndL, 1. c. 

 Sikkim, Cathcart ; Khasija, J. D. H. ^ T. T. (230). 



Flowers appear, from Cathcart' s figure, to be olive-brown, with 

 a white lip spotted with crimson. The lip is covered with down 

 in the inside, and the appearance of the species is that of a smaU 

 C. giganteum. 



183. C. giganteum. Wall. Cat. No. 7355 ; hot. Mag. 4844. 

 Khasija, Nunklovv on trees, Griffith j Darjeehng, Id. j Sikkim, 5000- 



7000 feet, /. D. H. (227, 233). 

 Varies much in the size and colour of the flowers and the 

 breadth of the leaves. Among Cathcart' s drawings, one represents 

 them as dull red on a greenish ground, with the inside of the lip 

 streaked with red, the whole flower being about 3 inches in 

 diameter ; another, on the contrary, represents them as nearly 5 

 inches in diameter, with deep bright-green whole-coloured sepals 

 and petals, and a yellowish lip, the inside of wliich is profusely 

 dotted with crimson. 



184. C. micromeson; fohis linearibus loratis basi canaliculatis rigidis 

 racemo erecto paucifloro longioribus, perianthio membranaceo patente, 

 labello cimeato glaberrimo basi eonspicue saecato laciniis laterahbus 

 rotundatis intermedia unguiculata oblata biloba apiculata multo mi- 

 nora lamellas 2 fihformes crenulatas emittente versus medium la- 

 bellum evanescentes. 



Khasija, Griffith. 



For this curious species I am indebted to the East India Com- 

 pany, by whom it was communicated with many other of Grifiith's 

 plants, through my friend Dr. Eoyle. The great bag formed be- 

 tween the bases of the column, lip, and lateral sepals, the long lip 

 smooth, wedge-shaped, with a very small double purple middle 

 lobe,, from which run down two smooth crenated lamellae, disap- 

 pearing before they reach the middle of the lip, are like nothing 

 else in this genus. 



185. C. ehloranthura, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1843, Misc. 102. (C. vari- 

 ciferum, Rchb.f. in Bonplandia, Oct. 15, 1856.) 



This is not among the collections before me. I learn from 

 Prof. Eeichenbach himself that his name has to be cancelled. 



