388 ORCHIDACE^. 



with a dozen or so slender parallel nerves joined by 

 veins. Flowers in the axils of persistent bracts Y^ inch 

 long : pedicel '% inch. Sepals and petals nearly equal, 

 5/8 inch by i/io inch, acute; the lateral sepals attached 

 to the foot of the column and forming with it a distinct 

 sac. Lip larger, attached to the foot of the column. 

 Column short. Polliniums eight, pear-shaped, attached 

 together in pairs to sticky discs. Pod i/8 inch by 1/16 

 inch, capped by the dried perianth, t. 244. Wight 

 Ic. t. 1642 lower right hand figure (Dendrobium fill- 

 forme). 



On trees, especially horizontal branches, often among moss. 

 Quite common on the Kodaikanal and Ootacamund downs. Not 

 known apparently except on these hills. Fyson 11 34. Bourne 

 681, 1842, 2940. 



In t. 244 : a. flower with a lateral sepal and a lateral petal torn off to 

 show the lips sessile on the foot of the column and incumbent, with edges 

 crenulate. [E.F.B.] 



CCELOGYNE. f.b.i. xxxiv. 



Epiphytic plants, growing on trees, with short creep- 

 ing rhizome made up of annually renewed, tuberous, erect 

 sections, clothed at first by scale leaves but later on 

 swollen and bare, and bearing at the top one or two of the 

 few foliage leaves. Young sections ending in a slender 

 flowering axis (scape) bearing a few large flowers. 

 Leaves evergreen, but with a joint at the base of the 

 blade, so that the blade separates very easily from the 

 top of the tuber or leaf-sheath. Sepals and petals 

 nearly equal, spreading out reflexed : lip with two side- 

 lobes erect and clasping the column, and a middle 

 lobe with raised corrugations, not spurred or saccate. 

 Column slightly curved, winged towards the top, and 

 often with two staminodal auricles. Anthers pendulous 

 with distinct stalk, incumbent on the three-lobed 



