204 ORCHID ACE M. 



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 . . . . 1. C. macrorhizum. 



An epiphyte, with long strap- shaped 



leaves ; pollinia 2 . . . 2. C. aloifolium. 



! C. macrorhizum, Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 162 ; Boyle 

 111 366 ; F. B. /., vi, 9; Duthie in Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Calc. ix, 

 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 

 J-Jin. long. Flowers 1J in. across ; pedicel with ovary 1 in. long. 

 Sepals about J in. long, linear-lanceolata, acuminate, pale-yeilow, 

 tinged with pink, spreading or reflexed. Petals shorter and broader 

 than the sepals, whitish streaked with pink. Lip about J 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 - in. long, curved, inner 

 surface streaked with crimson. Anther papillose outside. Pollinia 

 4, sessile on the erescent-,haped gland 



N. W. India (Royle, Falconer) ; Dehra Dun, Kalanga Hill (Mackinnon). 

 Flowers during July and August. DISTRIB. : Outer Himalayan 

 Ranges of Garhwa.l 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, Rwartt in Nov. Act. Upsal. vi, 73 ; Boxb. Fl. 

 Ind. tit, 458 ; F. B. I. vi, 10 ; K. & P. nn. B. Bot. Gard. Calc. viii, 

 198, t. 252 ; Duthie id. ix, part 2, 136 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 696. 



