702 CXXT. onCHIDACE^. 



pollinia 2, attached by a stout caudicle to a broadly oblong gland. Cap- 

 sules -^-1 1 in. long. F\. B. I. v. 6, p. 22 ; King & Pantling, in Ann. Eoy. 

 Bot. Gard. Calc. v. 8 (1898) p. 202, t. 271 ; Trim. Fl. Cejd. v. 4, p. 190 ; 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 519 ; Prain, Beng. 

 PI. p. 1018. Cymhidium triste, Eoxb. Hort. Beng. (1814) p. 63; Bot. 

 Mag. t. 3648 ; Wight, Icon. t. 911 (text only). C. tenuifolium, Wight, 

 Icon. t. 1689 (excluding text). — Flowers: May-June. 



Konkan: W. Ghats, Woodrow. Kanaka: Vsh^W, BitcMe, 1417! — Distrib. India 

 (Sikkim, Khasia Hills, Bengal, Pegu, Andamans, W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon. 



2. Luisia tenuifolia, Blume, Ramph. v. 4 (1848) p. 50. Stem 

 12 in. or more long, slender. Leaves 4-7 in. long, very variable in 

 thickness, sometimes very slender, green, spreading, straight or flexuous; 

 tip rounded. Flowers few, in short spikes | in. long together with 

 peduncle. Sepals yellowish with a purple tinge ; lateral sepals | by 

 i in., ovate, subacute, concave ; dorsal sepal oblong, obtuse. Petals f 

 by yV ''^•' linear, obtuse, of the same color as the sepals. Lip exceeding 



1 in. long, narrowly pandurate, convex, base broad, 2-auricled, tip with 



2 divergent lobules, dark purple with a white patch on either side, the 

 terminal lobes pale purple (Trimen) ; disk with 3 large calli. Fl. B. I. 

 v. 6, p. 24; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 266; Wight, Icon. t. 911 (excluding text) ; 

 Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 4, p. 191 ; Woodr. in Joiirn. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) 

 p. 519. Cymhidium tenuifolium, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. (1833) p. 167 

 (exclud. syn.) ; Grab. Cat. p. 203. — Flowers : Aug, 



Konkan: SiocJisl, Law\, Dalsell, 41! & 49! S. Konkan, Nimmo ex Graham. 

 Kanaka; Bomenbali (N. Kanara), Woodrow. — Distrib. India (W. Peninsula); 

 Ceylon. 



20. COTTONIA, Wight. 



Epiphytic ; stem stout, elongate, terete, leafy, emitting stout vermi- 

 form roots. Leaves long, narrow, coriaceous ; internodes short. 

 Flowers in short racemes ; peduncles very long, slender, simple or 

 paniculately branched ; bracts small. Sepals subequal, spreading. 

 Petals rather narrower than the sepals, spreading or reiiexed. Lip 

 sessile, not jointed at the base of the column, flat, much longer than the 

 sepals, subpandurate, 2-auricled at the base, with interposed calli ; side 

 lobes indistinct; midlobe rounded, retuse, with villous margin. Column 

 short, without a foot; anthers depressed, hemispheric, 2-celled ; pollinia 

 2, pyriform, 2-cleft, or 4, the 2 smaller incumbent on the larger ; caudicle 

 long, narrow; gland small. — Distrib. India and Ceylon; species 1. 



1. Cottonia macrostachys, WigJd, Icon. v. 5, part 1 (18;j2J p. 21, 

 t. 1755. Stem 4-8 in. long, nearly as thick as the little finger, clothed 

 with short appressed sheaths. Leaves 5-8 by 4— | in., lorate, spreading, 

 straight or recurved, abruptly ending in 2 lobes, one longer and more 

 rounded than the other with a broad acute sinus between them, keeled 

 beneath, dull green, sometimes obscurely mottled. Flowers somewhat 

 resembling a humble-bee, in short few-flowered racemes ; peduncles 

 12-30 in. long, erect, green, often mottled with red, simple or branched, 

 the branches forming terminal racemes; bracts minute, ovate, per- 

 sistent ; pedicels \\ith ovary |--'[ in. long ; flower-buds subglobose. 

 Sepals greenish-yellow veined \\ ith red ; lateral sepals | by I in., ovate- 



