188 BURMA, ITS PEOPLE ASD PJIOBECTIOSS. 



Flowers largo, yellow, speckled with small red dots, 2 inches or more aci'oss. Upper 

 sepal Teiy broad, nearly round. Lower sepal very similar, but not Cjuite so broad. 

 (It should bo mentioned here that it is a feature of Ci/prijiedium to have the two 

 lower or lateral sepals connate or united into one.) Petals broad, oblong, blunt. 

 Lip, as in the genus generally, saccate, with the edges turned in. 



Of the two excellent figures of this plant, one in Pot. Mag. t. 5513, and the 

 other in L'il/i<.<itrafiun Murtkolf, 18G5, t. -144, I give the preference to the latter, as, Lii 

 it, the markings on the leaves are more carefully drawn and are truer to nature. It 

 grows abundant!}- in large patches in the hollows of the limestone rocks which form 

 so striking a feature in the scenery round about Maulmain. These hollows are 

 commonly filled with light, black and well-drained vegetable mould. C. concolor 

 affects such soil as does Limatodes rosea, and as do also many other beautiful plants, 

 besides Orchids, which I could name. I discovered it in such a place at " The three 

 Pagodas'' in the year 1858. There is a similar species from the Straits with pure 

 white flowers, C. niieuia, which, although the flowers are not so large, is, in my opinion, 

 a more elegant plant. 



C. VILLOSUJI. 



An epiphyte, and a larger plant than the preceding. Leaves numerous, about 

 1 foot long by 2 inches broad, linear, tlaccid, pointed, dark green, the lower ones 

 stained with purple underneath. Scape 6-8 inches high, villous, as is the germ 

 and all the exterior part of the flower. The flowers are 3 or 4 inches across, green 

 outside, dark chocolate inside. Upper or dorsal sepal spatulate, i.e. expanding 

 upwards from a narrower base, arched, concave. The lateral sepals obovate with 

 a tapering base. The lip, which is of the usual form, is the same colour as the 

 other parts of the flower, but of a much lighter shade. A very handsome .species, 

 growing in large tufts on trees. Found on Daiina-toung, East of Maulmain, but 

 scarce. Abundant on the mountains of Toung-ngoo, about 4000-5000 of elevation. 



C. Paiushii. 



Also an epiphyte. Stem and leaves together a foot or oven 18 inches high, the 

 latter 2 inches broad, dark green above, lighter underneath, linear and cleft at the 

 end. Scape, 18 inches to 2 feet high, villous, 4-5 flowered. Bracts large, green. 

 Sepals pale green, striped, broad, ovate, pointed, 2 inches long. Petals long, narrow, 

 4-5 inches, and twisted, pendulous, much expanded, upper portion green, lower dark 

 purple with a green margin. The edges are waved and crisped, with, here and there, 

 warty protuberances with a pencil of hairs. Lip sometimes green, but oftcner, when 

 of robust growth, of a dark purple tinge. First found in 1858 on the Shan border 

 S.E. of Alaulmain, but not there abundant, more so, apparently, northwards. 



P.S. — The following supplementary list has been kindly fuiTiishcd me by Mr. 

 Low, of Clapton, since I wrote what goes before. 



1. BuLBOFHTLLril ALOPECDEUM, E. fil. 



2. Ekia tkiloi'hota, Lincll., a variety of E. olesa. "Flowers larger and the 



lower part of the Hp very gradually passirjg into the upper. Flowers pure 

 white with a lemon-coloured lip, marked by three longitudinal purple elevated 

 linos." — Lindl. Journal of the Proceedings Linn, Sue. vol. iii. p. 34. 



3. Dendrobium Lubbeksiaxum, K. fil. Gard. Chron. 1882, Ap. 8, p. 460, 



" in growth like a smaller D. foesiosum." 



4. Dexdeobium ceassinode, var. Barbeeianuji, E. fil. 



5. D. cHAssixoDE, var. albifloeum or candidum, R. fid. 



6. D. srAvissiJirir, R. fil. 



7. D. MAKMORATril, R. fil. 



8. I). AVAKDiAxuii, var. 'Watsoxi, R. fil. ? 



9. D. AVardiaxum, var. axbum, R. fil. ? 



10. D. Bkxsonije, var. xaxthixa, R. fil. 



11. C.ELOGTXE beachtpieea, R. fil. (near C. loiiiffiiiosa) in Gard. Chron. 1881, 

 July 2, p. 6. 



12. Limatodes labeosa, R. fil. 



