Ccelogyne.~\ CXLVIII. OKCHIDE^:. (J. D. Hooker.) 841 



fringed lamellae, top of column truncate and toothed. Bot. Mag. t. 5674. 

 Pleione humilis, Uon Prodr. 37 ; Part. Fl. Gard. t. 51 ; Jard. Fleurist. 

 t. 153. Epidendrum humile, Sni. Extt. Sot. t. 98. Cymbidium humile, 

 Smith in Hees Cyclop. 



TEMPEBATE HIMALAYA; Nepal, Wallich, &c. Sikkim, alt. 7-8000 ft., J. D. H. 

 Munnipore, Wall. 



Very near C. prcecox, but flowers much smaller, pseudobulhs usually narrow, 

 column truncate, and base ot lip adnute to the base of tbe column. 



Var. tricolor, Keichb. f. in Gard. Chrou. 18SO, i. 394; Williams Orchid. Alb. 

 t. 102, has brown spots on tbe lip, and var. albato,, Reichb. f. I.e. .1888, i. 392, has 

 mauve-purple radiating lines on the lip. Fl. spring. 



50. C. maculata, Lindl. Gen. $ Sp. Orchid. 43; in Wall. PL As. 

 Ear. i. 45, t. 53; Fol. Orchid. 15; pseudobulbs stout umbonate with 

 a conical top, sheaths of scape bullate, bracts large inflated truncate, 

 flowers white, sepals oblong-lanceolate, petals oblanceolate, lip rounded 

 quite entire blotched with dark purple, disk yellow and red with 5-7 

 pectinate ridges. Sot. Mag. t. 4691 ; m. des Serres, t. 1470 ; Griff. Notul. 

 iii. 281. C. Candida, Lindl, in Wall. Cat. 1964. Pleione maculata, Lindl. 

 in Paxt. Fl. Gard. t. 39, f. 1 ; Jard. Fleur. t. 93. ? P. diphylla, Lindl. in 

 Paxt. FL Gard. under t. 51 ; Fol. Orchid. 15; Walp.Ann. vi. 234. Ccelog., 

 Griff', llin. Notes 44, No. 684. Gomphostylis Candida, Wall. mss. 



NEPAL, Wallich. SIKKIM and BHOTAN, alt. 3500-4000 ft., Clarke ,&c. KHASIA 

 HILLS, alt. 4-5000 ft., Wallich, &c. 



Pstudolulls barrel-shaped, with a depressed top rising into a blunt cone, green 

 spotted with purple. Leaves in pairs on tbe old pseudobulbs, 6-8 in., with bullate 

 sheaths at the base. Scape very short, rarely 2-fld. ; flowers 2-2J in. diarn. ; sepals 

 and petals variable in breadth. 



Var. virginea, Reichb. f. in Gard. Cbron. 1887, ii. 681, has a light sulphur-cold, 

 lip, with the purple lines and spots evanescent. 



51. C. lagrenaria, Lindl. Fol. Orchid. 15; pseudobulbs depressed 

 broad umbonate with a thick ring and conical top, sheaths of scape bullate, 

 bract as in C. maculata, sepals pale purple lateral lanceolate acuminate, 

 petals linear-lanceolate, lip oblong- toothed white with broad purple blotches, 

 disk yellow with 7 subpectinate ridges. Sot. Mag. t. 5370 ; Fl. des Serres, 

 t. 2386 ; III. Horlic. t. 510. Pleione lagenaria, Lindl. in Paxt. Fl. Gard. 

 ii. t. 39, f. 2 ; Jard. Fleurist. t. 93;; Warner Sel. Orchid. 1. 17; Peydt. Orchid. 

 t. 36; Jennings Orchid, t. 47/1. 



INDIA (locality unknown). 



Pseudobulbs 1 in. diam., broader than long, mottled very dark and light green ; 

 the short cylindric portion swells out into a thick ring with a depressed inner border 

 from which the cone arises. Leaves not seen. Scape 2 in. ; flowers 3 in. diam. 

 Near C. maculata, but the sepals aie very acuminate and the flowers much 

 larger. 



52. C. Reichenbachiana, T. Moore in Gard. Chron. 1868,1210; 

 pseudobulb large flagon-shaped 5-8 grooved, top conical, sheaths of scape 

 appressed, bracts oblong-lanceolate acute, flower pale purplish, sepals linear 

 oblong subacute, petals linear obtuse, lip white with red spots and 3 short 

 pectinate ridges, margin toothed. Hot. May. t. 5753. 



AEEACAN ; at Rangoon, enson (Hort. VeHch). 



Pseudobulbs 2-2% in. high, green reticulate with black, gradually swelling up- 

 waids, !-] in. dium. across the lobed las-e ot the conical top. Leaf not seen. 

 Scape 2-3 in., 1-2-fld., lower sheaths oblong green mottled; flowers2 in. dium. 



