Cletsostojna.l OvchideCE. 20I 



perfectly 2-celled, beak truncate, pollinia 2, globose, strap 

 linear, gland small, bifid; fr. \\-\\ in., sessile, fusiform, erect. 



Moist region 1-3000 ft.; rather rare. Hantane ; Avisawella. FI. Jan.; 

 orange-yellow, coarsely spotted with red. 

 Endemic. 



2. C. tenerum, Hk. f. in Fl. B. Ind. vi. 73 (1890). 

 j£ceoclades tenera, Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 236 ; Thw. Enum. 306. 

 Saccolabitini teneniiii, Trim. Syst. Cat. Ceyl. 89. C. P. 2983. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 72>- Wight, Ic. t. 1680. 



Stem 1-2 ft., as thick as a crow's quill, scandent, green 

 speckled with red ; internodes h in. ; roots long, slender, 

 flexuous; 1. i-i| in., oblong, or linear-oblong, spreading 

 or recurved, tip notched ; raceme or spike short, few-fld., on a 

 short, stout, leaf-opposed ped. |-f in. long, basal sheaths 

 cupular; bracts cymbiform; pedicel with ov. \ in.; fl. § in. 

 across, sep. and pet. oblanceolate-oblong, obtuse, spreading, 

 lateral sep. decurved; lip shorter than the lateral sep., side 

 lobes erect, truncate, crenulate, mid lobe ovate, obtusely 

 3-lobulate, fleshy, spur very short, conical, incurved ; anth. 

 short, beak broad, obtuse, pollinia 2, globose, strap slender, 

 gland small; fr. i in., oblong, fusiform or subpyriform, turgid, 

 strongly ribbed, erect. 



Forests of montane zone 3-6000 ft. ; rather common. Fl. March, 

 April ; sep. and pet. yellow, with red longitudinal veins, lip white, with 

 the wings pink or orange. 



Also in the Nilgiri Mts., S. India. 



3. C. decipiens, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. xxx. Misc. 11 (1844). 



' C. }naculosu?n, Thw. Enum. 304 (non Lindl). C. Thwaitesianum, 

 Trim, in Journ. Bot. xxiii. 244. C. P. 3193. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vi. 75. 



Stem very short, stout; roots copious, tortuous ; 1. 5-10 by 

 \-\ in., lorate, flat., unequally obtusely 2-lobed, speckled 

 beneath with purple, sheath very short, open ; ped. slender, 

 very short, bearing a simple or paniculately branched spike 

 5-6 in. long, lengthening to 7 in. in fr., branches flowering 

 along their whole length; bracts minute, subulate; fl. \ in. 

 broad, sep. oblong, subacute; pet. linear-oblong; lip a broad, 

 subcylindric sac as long as the sep., rounded at the tip, side 

 lobe truncate, mid lobe orbicular, dorsal callus broad erect; 

 anth. orbicular, cuspidately beaked, pollinia 2, globose, strap 

 linear, tip subulate, gland oblong ; fr. \ in. long, sessile, linear- 

 oblong, spreading. 



Low country in moist region; rather rare. Heneratgoda; Hunasgiriya; 

 Peradeniya, wild in the gardens. Fl. Jan.-March ; sep. and pet. lemon- 

 yellow, with crimson centres, lip paler, yellow or nearly white. 



Endemic. 



