10 cxLViif. ORCinnE*;. (J. D. f Took or.) [CymUdium. 



TENASSEBIM; on Mooloe-it, alt. (JOOOft., Parish. BUKMA; on the Siam frontier, 

 Berkeley. 



Pseudolulls 1-1 i in., turgidly ovoid, top contracted. Leaves 3-5 in., recurved, 

 petiole rarely 1 in. Scape Kuberect, with tho raceme <i S in., :? f>-lld. ; sheaths few ; 

 bracts small, ovate-lanceolate ; pedicel with ovary 1-1.} in.; flowers 2-2} in. diain. ; 

 sepals linear, subacuto, dull yellow-green J Detail subsimilar; lip narrowed at the 

 base, white spotted with red, Hide lobes rounded erect, midlobe oblong, tip rounded 

 apiculate ; anther smooth ; pollinia 3 angular, gland broadly triangularly obtuse 

 above, sides acute. 



5. C. Devonlanum, Paxt. Mag. Hot. x. 97, cum ic. ; leaves stoutly 

 potioled thickly coriaceous, petiole articulate, scape with ra<;rm<? as long 

 as the leaves drooping very many-fid., bracts very small, pedicels very 

 short, disk of lip with two short ridges with swollen tips between the 

 side lobes. Warner Orchid. Alb. t. 170; licichb.f. in Gard. Chron. 1881, 

 i. 395. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, Mmi. KIMSIA II i I.I.H, (lilsun ; on Kollongrock, alt. r>0(X) It., 

 J. D. H. <? T. T. 



Stem very stout at tho base, obscurely pseudobulbous. Leaves several, 6-12 in., 

 narrowed into a petiole 3-5 in. Scape very stout, 8-10 in. ; basal sheaths 1 .} in., 

 Imbricating) bracts ^ in. ; pedicel with ovary J-f in.; flowers 1..J in. diain.; si-pals 

 oblong-lanceolate and petals green speckled with red, or pale reddish yellow streaked 

 with red ; lip short, side lobes rounded narrowing into a small triangular ovate 

 obtuse midlobo, purple with a darker blotch on each side lobe; anl-hcr and pollen as 

 in C. eburneum, var. 1'arixhii. Capsule 1| in., turgidly ellipsoid. The flowers appeal- 

 to vary extremely in colour. Itcichcnbach describes the sepals and petals as li^ht 

 brown with dull mauve streaks ;md blotches. In a specimen from Assam the tip of 

 I he lip is white with purple spots. 



*** Leaves loriform, very long, tip broadly unequally 2-lobed. 



6. C. aloiiblium, Swartz in Nov. Act. Upsal. vi. 73 ; in Schrad. 

 Journ. Hot. 1779, ii. 218 ; racemes elongate pendulous or decurvod many-Mil. , 

 llowors 1^-2 in. broad, sepals and petals linear-oblong snbacute, epichilc 

 broadly oblong or suborbicular equalling or shorter than the liy]>o<-,hile, 

 disk with 2 curved thick lamellco. JRoxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 458 ; Lindl. Gen. 

 ^ Sp. Orchid. 165; Wall. Cat. 7352 C; Wafy. Ann. vi. 624 (excl. Ic. 

 Wight). C. pendulum, Swartz, fy Lindl. II c. ; Walp. I. c. (excl. cit. /in/. 

 Reg.) ; Roxl>. Cor. PI. i. 35, t. 44; Fl. Ind. iii. 458. 0. crassifolium, Wall. 

 Cat.Wi. (>. Msiiuiii, AV/r/,/;. f. in Flora 1872, 274. Epidcndnini ;iloi- 

 folium, Linn. Sp> PL 953. Brides Borassi, Smith In ViVc* ( '//<-/(>}>. 

 Suppl.Rheede Hort. Mai. xii. t. 8. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA, from East Nepal eastwards. ASSAM and southwards to 

 TENASSKEIM and tho ANDAMAN ISLANDS. (? Malabar, Rheedc.) DISTRIB. China ? 



Stem short, stout. Leaves 1-3 ft. by -s| 2 in. Raceme 12-18 in. ; flowers 

 variable in colour and size, usually dull purplish brown with pale borders. 1 am 

 much puzzled with this and tho following species, which appear to ditler, in so fai- 

 ns all my copious materials show, only in tho comparative length of tho epichile and 

 hypochilo of their lips, and in their geographical ranges, aloifolium being strictly 

 northern and eastern, and tricolor as strictly western. These characters would be 

 absolute were it not that Rhccdc's figure of the Malabar plant has the lip of 

 <t/oi folium. According to drawings in Herb. Kcw ami Calcutta, C. alo'ifolium is 

 very variable in other respects, and three varieties are distinguishable. 1. lltu-emes 

 shorter suberect, lewer-tld., sepals and petals oblusedull purplo \vilh yellowish pale 

 margins. This exactly resembles the Chinese? ( '. <tl<>/fo//iii , Lodd. Hot. Cat. t. 1>I>7 ; 

 .lacq. Hort. Sohoenb. iii. (VJ, t. 3H3. 2. Flowers larger, sepals and petal MI!> 



