ORCHIDACE^ 



plicate, rigid, erect, coriaceous. Petiole ±6.2 cm. long, cylin- 

 dric, stout, sulcate. Inflorescence heteranthous. Peduncle about 

 24 cm. tall, approximate to the pseudobulb, suberect to arcu- 

 ate from a decumbent base, glabrous throughout, clothed below 

 with several ovate to lanceolate imbricating sheaths. Rachis ±8 

 cm. long, loosely few-flowered, arcuate or nodding, more or less 

 zigzag, subtended by one or two strongly convolute or tubular 

 bracts. Floral bracts about 2 cm. long, 1.15 cm. broad, variable 

 in size, oblong-ovate, apparently convolute about the ovary, 

 equaling or surpassing the pedicellate ovary, scarious, rigid -ner- 

 vose. Perianth sub-fleshy. Sepals five-nerved. Lateral sepals 

 ±1.78 cm. long, 5.9 mm. broad, lance-oblong, acute, dorsally car- 

 inate, shallowly cymbiform. Dorsal sepal ±1.6 cm. long, 5.8 mm. 

 wide, similar. Petals ±1.38 cm. long, 4.9 mm. broad, narrowly 

 elliptic, subacute, obtuse or subtruncate, three-nerved at the 

 base. Lip about 1.7 cm. long, 9 mm. broad near the base, in nat- 

 ural position convolute for about half its length, when extended 

 broadly lanceolate, anterior portion fleshy-thickened, obtuse; 

 lamina slightly reflexed near the base, at about one-third the dis- 

 tance from the apex lightly emarginate on each side ; three ap- 

 proximate low simple fleshy keels run from the base to the apex. 

 Column short, surrounded by the tube of the lip, about 6 mm. 

 long or including the wing about 8.5 mm. long; wing clavate, 

 very broad at the truncate, entire apex. 



This plant appears to be very closely allied to Coelogyne 

 Clemensii var. longiscapa A. & S., but differs in its smaller, ap- 

 parently less fleshy leaves and markedly smaller flowers. The mid- 

 lobe of the lip, however, occasionally shows the shallow side lob- 

 ing so characteristic of Coelogyne Clemensii A. & S. The material 

 collected by Haslam cited below shows slightly taller peduncles 

 than the type, the longest peduncle reaching 21.8 cm. in length. 



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