Ccelogyne.\ Orchidecs. 159 



cohering; pet. falcately ovate-lanceolate, apiculate, 3-veined ; 

 lip very small, strongly recurved, tongue-shaped, obtuse; 

 columnar arms widely spreading, long, broad, crenate on one 

 side; pollinia pyriform. 



Lower montane zone 3-4500 ft.; rather common. Hantane ; Hewa- 

 hette; Pundaloya; also on summit of Ritigala, N. C. Prov. (2500 ft.). 

 Fl. July-October; yellow, tinged more or less with brownish-purple; 

 nearly white in the Ritigala plant. 



Endemic. 



5. C Thwaitesii, Rchb. f. in Journ. Bot. xii. 199 (1874). 

 C. Wightii, Thw. Enum, 299 (part). Trim. Syst. Cat. Ceyl. 88. 

 C. P. 2740. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. TT]. 



Rootstock rather stout, tortuous, moderately branched, 

 emitting filiform roots, internodes \\ in. or shorter ; pseudo- 

 bulbs ^-| in,,subglobosely ovoid,at length ridged; 1. 1^-2^ in., 

 very shortly petioled, oblong to oval- or linear- oblong, obtuse, 

 emarginate, very thickly coriaceous, stiff; ped. i or 2, 2-4 in., 

 flexuous, usually spotted or streaked with red, and umbellately 

 3-6-fld., pedicel with ov. jV i^-j bracts minute, acute; dorsal 

 sep. nearly \ in., broadly ovate, acute, lateral, \-\ in., ovate- 

 lanceolate, subacute, widely spreading, 5-veined ; pet, very 

 small, ovate, subacute, quite entire; lip tongue-shaped, fleshy, 

 channelled ; fr. pyriform, § in., strongly ribbed, stoutly pedi- 

 celled. 



Montanezoneup to 7000 ft. ; rather rare. N.Eliya; Ramboda; Hakgala. 

 Fl. March, August; pale greenish-yellow, without red streaks or spots. 

 Endemic, 



7. CCEXiOGYNS, Lifidl. 

 Epiphytes; rootstock creeping, bearing i -few-leaved 

 pseudobulbs; 1. coriaceous or membranous and plaited; ped. 

 from the base or top of the pseudobulb; raceme few or 

 many-fld.; fl. medium-sized or small, bracts usually large; 

 sep. subequal, dorsal oblong, lateral ovate-oblong, base more 

 or less saccate; pet. narrower, nearly as long as the sep.; lip 

 sessile on the base of the column, erect, as long as the sep., 

 3-lobed, lateral lobes embracing the column, disk crested ; 

 column long, slender, margined or winged, top dilated, 

 hooded, foot o; anth. 2-celled or imperfectly 4-celled, pol- 

 linia 4, pyriform, waxy, cohering in pairs or all together by a 

 viscus. — Sp. 90 or more ; 62 in Fl. B. Ind. 



Bracts, |-i| in i. C. brevisc.^pa. 



Bracts, |-§ in 2. C. oooratissima. 



iiracts, ^ in. 3. C. zeylanica. 



