1 60 Orcllidecr. {Ccclogyne. 



1. C. breviscapa, Lindl. Fol. Orchid. Coel. 4 (1S54). 

 Thw. Enum. 300. C. P. 3 121. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 833 (excl. syn.). 



Rootstock very stout, as thick as a goose quill, clothed 

 with rigid dark brown appressed scales; pseudobulbs i\~2\ in., 

 crowded, 1-2-leaved, narrowly ovoid, sheaths broad, coria- 

 ceous, red-brown ; 1. 3-5 in., linear-oblong, subacute, coria- 

 ceous, keeled, narrowed into a short petiole; ped. from the 

 base of the terminal pseudobulb, with the 4-6-fld. raceme 

 3-4 in. long, slender, basal sheaths closely imbricate, hard, 

 obtuse; fl. distant, f-i in. broad, bracts |-i^ in., oblong- 

 lanceolate, acute, chartaceous, brown, persistent, pedicels 

 slender, with the ov. |-f in., spreading or decurved ; dorsal 

 sep. oblong-lanceolate, acute, lateral ovate-oblong; pet. linear- 

 oblong; side lobes of lip short, obtuse, mid lobe orbicular- 

 obovatc, retuse or apiculate, disk with 2 thickened ridges and 

 a median slender one, top of column crenatc; fr. \\ in., 

 narrowly fusiform, acutely angled. 



Upper montane zone ; rather rare. N. Eliya. 



Fl. Dec-Jan.; white, lip tinged with yellow, bracts brown. 



Endemic. 



The name breviscapa is unfortunate, as the ped. is longer than in the 

 other Ceylon species. 



In Y\. Brit. Ind., I (following Thwaites) referred Wight's C. am^iisfi/olia 

 (Ic. Tab. 1641) to this species, but, now that I have seen the Peradeniya 

 drawings and specimens, I reject this identification. Wight's figure is 

 a bad one, to whatever species it may pertain. There is, in the Kew 

 collection of drawings, one by Mrs. Walker of a variety of this, or of 

 an allied congener, from Ramboda, with pseudobulbs 3 in. long, yellow- 

 flowered, and a 2-lobed mid lobe of the lip. 



2. C. odoratisslma, Lindl. iii Wall. Cat. n. 1960(1828). [Plate 

 LXXXIX.J 



Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 41 ; Fol. Orch. Coel. 5. Thw. Enum. 300. 

 C. P. 518. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 834. Wight, Ic. t. 1640 (.?). Bot. Mag. t. 5462 (?). 



Rootstock creeping, with long slender roots; pseudobulbs 

 many, crowded, 1-2-lcaved, about i in. long, subglobosc, 

 obscurely 4-sidcd, wrinkled when old, sheaths h\-alinc; 1. 

 2i-4 in., linear-lanceolate, subacute, keeled, thinl}- coriaceous, 

 punctulate beneath; ped. from the base of an old pseudobulb, 

 erect, shorter than the 1., 2-4-fld., basal sheaths closely imbri- 

 cate, obtuse: raceme lax-fid., bracts \-% in., oval-oblong, 

 acute, membranous, persistent, pedicel with ov. A-^in.; sep. 

 \-\\ in., subacute, dorsal oblong-ovate, lateral falcately ovate; 

 pet. narrowly oblong or oblanccolate; side lobes of lip 

 oblong, obtuse, erect, mid lobe orbicular, entire, apiculate, 



