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^^^ 216. CCELOGYNE XYREKES, n. Sp. 



^^Hi Pseudobulbs crowded on a stout rhizome, oblong, 4-angled, 

 ^^^2 inches long, top truncate. Leaves obovate-oblanceolate to 

 lanceolate, apex subacute, base narrowed for a long way, 

 nerves 5, distinct, 9 inches long by 3 inches wide. Raceme 3 

 inches long, from the axil of the young leaf, 2-3-flowered. 

 Barct lanceolate, 2 inches long; ovary and pedicel half an 

 inch long. Upper sepal keeled, 2 inches long, \ inch wide, 

 lanceolate, pinkish. Petals narrow, linear, i^ inch wide. Lip 

 a little shorter than the sepal, distinctly three-lobed ; lateral 

 lobes rounded; mid-lobe half an inch long, oblong, rounded at 

 the tip, rather narrowed ; keels two, low, not hairy, deep 

 brown ; base of mid-lobe sepia-brown, edged with flesh-colour ; 

 side-lobes dark brown spotted with white. Column long ; 

 clinandrium longer than the anther, ovate, yellow. Rostellum 

 lanceolate. 



Teku woods below the Padang. 



Allied to C. speciosa, Lindl., but with no hairs on the lip, 

 the ed^es entire and mid-lobe smaller. 



*2iy. CCELOGYNE CARNEA, Hook. fil. ', Rtdl. Op. cit. p. 329, 



antea, p. 58. Common on the Padang. Creeping in moss or 

 over stumps or low bushes. Flowers white, the two central 

 keels yellow. 



Distribution. Selangor and Perak Hills (Gunong Kerbau). 



*2l8. CCELOGYNE STENOCHILA, Hook. fil.', Ridl. Op. cit. p. 



329. Common with the last and more abundant. Flowers 

 brownish flesh-colour. 



Distribution. Selangor and Perak Hills. 

 *2i9. Pholidota parviflora, Hook. fil. ; Ridl. op. cit. p. 

 329. Top of Gunong Tahan and elsewhere high up on the 

 Padang. 



Distribution. Perak Hills. 



220. Pholidota Elizabethiana, n. sp. 



Rhizome long, 6 inches or more. Pseudobulbs elongate, 

 cylindric, blunt at the top, closely approximate and appressed 

 to the rhizome, 2 inches long, \ inch wide. Leaves 2, linear, 

 acuminate at both ends, apex shortly acuminate, acute, 

 mucronate, narrowed gradually to the base, 3-nerved, thinly 



» coriaceous, g inches long, \ inch wide. Scapes from the centre 

 of the leaves of the young bulb, 4 or 5 inches long, graceful, 

 erect ; base about an inch, nude ; raceme many-flowered ; 

 flowers distichous, white, small; rachis straight. Bracts 

 lanceolate-acute, papery, ^ inch long, longer than the flower- 

 buds, caducous before the opening of the flower. Ovary and 

 pedicel -^^ inch long. Upper sepal lanceolate, base gibbous, 

 keeled. Petals oblong or ovate-oblong, shorter and thinner. 

 Lip at the base cymbiform with short blunt lobes; mid-lobe 

 broad, suborbicular, obscurely 3-lobed ; margins crisp ; disc 

 thickened with two elevated, semilunar, fleshy ridges between 

 the two side-lobes; centre of middle lobe thickened. Column 

 short and broad; stelidia short, distinct, tooth-like; rostellum 



