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lip oblong, half an inch long, with short rounded lobes, apex 

 truncate, five elevated veins on the centre, dull purplish pink 

 with a cream edge or darker purple with a yellow edge. 

 Column yellowish striped with pink. The buds pink. The 

 fruit globose to ovoid, pendulous, green, with a broad 

 purple bar over each fertile segment and a narrower one bet- 

 ween each ; it is as big as a small gooseberry. 



The plant is always terrestrial. It does not appear to 

 have been met with outside the Malay Peninsula, where it 

 occurs on Gunong Bubu, Gunong Inas, and Gunong Ulu Kali. 



I am quite unable to guess why Reichenbach put this very 

 distinct and peculiar genus under Arundina, from which it 

 differs in habit, foliage, inflorescence, form of the lip, and 

 most notably, in its three anthers and peculiar dehiscence 

 of the fruit. 



*2I3. CCELOGYNE DaYANA, var. MASSANGEANA. 



Ccelogyne cymhidioides, Ridl. op. cit. p. 329. 



Very abundant on the trees overhanging the streams of 

 ;he Padang and the Teku River, and also in the Gully. The 

 plant described by me as C. cymhidioides (Journ. Linn. Soc, 

 Bot. xxxviii. p. 329) is a rather odd form, which was terrestrial, 

 but is obviously an abnormal condition. The plants here were 

 very fine, the pendent spra3^s of flowers reaching four feet in 

 length. 



214. Cgelogyne longibracteata, Hook. fil. A single 

 specimen, iflentical with the plant of the Sempang Mines, was 

 brought in by the men from the ridge between Wray's Camp 

 and the Padang. , 



215. Ccelogyne (§ Specios^) xanthoglossa, n, sp. 

 Rhizome stout, woody; pseudobulbs conic, four-angled, 



ij inches long. Leaves solitary, oblanceolate-acuminate, long- 

 petioled, 5-nerved, 7 inches long, nearly 2 inches wide; petiole 

 2 inches long. Raceme 2 inches, 1-2-flowered ; peduncle 

 stout, i^ inch long. Bract lanceolate-acuminate, i\ inch long. 

 Pedicel very short ; ovary 6-winged, short. Sepals lanceolate- 

 acute, keeled, 2 inches long, pinkish, whiter at the base. Petals 

 very narrow, linear acute, nearl}?^ as long. Lip 3-lobed; side- 

 lobe oblong, I inch long ; mid-lobe lanceolate, edges crisped, 

 acute; keels from the base, 3, low, edge crisped, median one 

 lowest, not hairy, canary-yellow; keels orange; centre of mid- 

 lobe orange, margins pinkish. Column very stout, white; 

 margin of clinandrium rounded ; wings large, rounded. Anther 

 large, half an inch long, ovate-obtuse, pale yellow. PoUinia 

 pyriform, large, yellow. Rostellum large, ovate, entire. 

 Stigma deep and wide with a distinct lip. 



Woods on the Padang. A single plant brought in by the 

 Dyaks. 



Perhaps most closely allied to C. Rumphii, Lindl., very dis- 

 tinct in its yellow lip, with 3 low keels, the central one of which 

 runs to the tip, the others half down the lip. 



