AdrorJnson.'] OvcJlidece. l6l 



disk with 3 slender crisped ridges; column margined, hood 

 entire; fr. i in., pyriform, or broadly ellipsoid, thickly 6-ribbed, 

 pendulous from the elongated thickened ped. 



Upper montane zone; common. Fl. Dec, Jan.; white, with a yellow 

 stain on the lip. 



Also on the Nilgiri Mts., S. India. 



The name odoratissinia is scarcely warranted by the very faint scent 

 of the pretty flowers. Neither of the figures quoted, which represent the 

 Nilgiri plant, are characteristic for ours, which has much larger flowers, 

 less acute sep. and pet., and very crowded globose pseudobulbs. 



3. C. zeylanica, Hook. f. (nov sp.) 



C. P. 4003. 



Rootstock creeping, with slender roots; pseudobulbs 1-2- 

 leaved, \ in. long, obpyriform or ovoid, somewhat wrinkled, 

 green, bearded at the base with the red-brown fibres of old 

 sheaths ; 1. 4-6 by \ in., narrowly linear-lanceolate, acute, 

 keeled, coriaceous, narrowed into a petiole; ped. at the base of 

 an old pseudobulb, much shorter than the 1. (i| in.), slender. 

 erect, 2-fld., basal sheaths imbricate in a cone, obtuse, green; 

 bracts \ in., oblong, brown ; fl. drooping, sep. \ in., subacute, 

 dorsal oblong, lateral ovate-oblong; pet. narrowly linear; side 

 lobes of lip broad, obtuse, mid lobe orbicular. 



Ambagamuwa district (Ic. Herb. Peradeniya). 



Fl. (.'') white, with two ochreous spots on the mid lobes of the lip. 



A very distinct little species, allied to C. odoratissinia^ but much 

 smaller in all its parts, with ovoid pseudobulbs, very narrow 1., very short 

 ped., and small bracts. The description is from an excellent drawing, 

 and a flowerless specimen in the Peraden. Herb, on the same sheet 

 with a specimen ticketed ' C. P. 312 1 (?) C. breviscapa (?) (D. Morrisj.' 



8. ADRORKIZON, Hook. f. 



Rootstock creeping, emitting many long stout vermiform 

 roots; pseudobulbs o, or narrow, i -leaved; 1. narrow, coria- 

 ceous; ped. from the base of the stem or pseudobulb, erect, 

 1-3-fld.; bracts minute; sep. linear-oblong, obtuse; pet. as 

 long, narrowly spathulate, obtuse; lip sessile on the base of 

 the column, erect, spathulate, entire, obtuse; base saccate, tip 

 crenulate, disk smooth; column narrowly winged, top dilated 

 with toothed sides; foot o; anth. imperfectly 4-celled; pol- 

 linia z^, free, waxy, narrowly pyriform, 2 larger than the 

 others; fr. narrowly oblong or pyriform, strongly 6-ribbed. 



A' purpurascens, Hook. f. 



Ca'lo}iyne (?) purpurascens. Hk. f. in Fl. B. Ind. v. 842. Dendrobium 

 purpurascens^ Thw. Enum. 298. C. P. 2352. 

 Fl. B. Ind. 1. c. Hook. Ic. Plant, t. 2 no. 

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