204 ORCHIDACE#. [ Cymprmwm. 
narrow, rarely rudimentary at the time of flowering. Flowers rather 
large, in many- or few-flowered suberect or drooping racemes, 
rarely 1-flowered ; scape loosely sheathed ; floral bracts various. 
Sepals and petals subequal, erect or spreading. Lip adnate to the 
base of the column and embracing it more or less by its convolute 
side-lobes ; terminal lobe decurved ; disk usually with two ridges. 
Column long, without a foot. Anther 1- or (imperfectly) 2-celled ; 
pollinia 2, rarely 4, ovoid, pyriform cuneiform or subglobose, 
more or less partite, sessile on a small or large often strap-shaped 
gland.—Species about 50, in temperate subtropical and tropical 
Asia, a few in Africa and Australia. 
A terrestrial almost leafless parasite ; 
pollinia 4 é : ° : 1. C. macrorhizum. 
An epiphyte, with long strap-shaped 
leaves; pollinia2 . . - 2. C. aloifolium. 
1,C. macrorhizum, Lind]. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 162; Royle 
Il. 366; F. B.1., vi, 9; Duthie in Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Calc. 12, 
part 2, 134, t. 114. 
A terrestrial almost leafless parasite. Rootstock as thick as a goose 
quill, creeping branched and jointed. Scape very short, basal sheath 
up to 2 in. long. Raceme up to 6 in. long, 6-8-flowered ; floral bracts 
$-3in. long. Flowers 14 in. across; pedicel with ovary 1 in. long. 
Sepals about 2? in. long, linear-lanceolata, acuminate, paie-ye.low, 
tinged with pink, spreading or reflexed. Petals shorter and broader 
than the sepals, whitish streaked with pink. Lip about ? in. long, 
white with crimson or purple blotches along the margin ; side- 
lobes narrow, erect, margins inflexed; midlobe oblong or subpan-- 
duriform, acute at the apex; disk with two thick whitish ridges 
between the side-lobes. Column about 3 in. long, curved, inner 
surface streaked with crimson. Anther papillose outside. Pollinia. 
4, sessile on the erescent-shaped gland, 
N. W. India (Royle, Falconer) ; Dehra Dun, Kalanga Hill (Mackinnon). 
Flowers during July and August. Distris.: Outer Himalayan 
Ranges of Garhwa] and Kumaon, up to 7,000 ft. ; eastwards to Sikkim 
(but very rare); also in Assam and on the Khasia and Naga Hills.. 
There is also a record of its having been found in Kashmir. 
2.C. aloifolium, Swartz in Nov. Act. Upsal. vi, 73; Roxb. FI. 
Ind, iti, 458 ; F. BR. 1. vt,10; K. & P. Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Cale. viii,. 
198, t. 252 ; Duthie id. ix, part 2, 136 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. ti, 696. 
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