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concave at the base and with narrow entire lateral lobes; the anterior lobe sub-quadrate, 
emarginate, its edges undulate-crenulate; upper surface with two slender lamellz proceeding 
from the base and becoming much enlarged in the terminal lobe. Column straight, very 
slightly winged, broader opposite the stigma than at the minutely crenulate apex. Pollinia 
obovoid, the caudicle-like membrane very small. Capsule ellipsoid, obtusely angled, “75 
to 1 in, long. Walp. Ann. VI. 230; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. V, 859. 
Sikkim, at elevations of 6,000 to 7,000 feet; in flower during May and June; 
Pantling, No. 128. Naga Hills, at Kohima, elevation 4,500 feet; Prain. Khasia Hills, 
at elevations of 4,000 to 5,000 feet; Griffith, Hook. fil. 
The flowers are pale greenish flushed with yellow, the side lobes and lamelle 
of the lip having reddish markings. ‘The inflorescence of this species is proliferous, 
exactly in the same manner as that of C. flavida, Wall. 
Prate 189.—Celogyne longipes, Lindl. A plant; fig. 3 floral bract, of natural size. Fig. 1 a 
flower, 2 lip, 4 column with anther in situ, 5 empty anther, 6 pollinia; 7 two pollinia in profile; 
айй enlarged, 
10, CŒLOGYNE PROLIFERA, Lindl. in Wa!l. Cat., 1956. 
Pseudo-bulls narrowly ovoid, compressed, shrunken at flowering time, with short 
sheaths at the base, 1:25 in. long, rising at distances of 15 to 2 in. from a 
rhizome “95 in. thick, clothed with imbricate scale-like sheaths, eaves narrowly 
elliptic, acute, tapering to the shortly petiolate bas», sometimes sessile; length 2:5 to 
4 in., breadth ‘5 to ‘75 in. Peduncle terminal, shorter than the leaves, naked below, but - 
bearing numerous imbricate distichous sheaths under the flowers. aceme 2 in. long, 
lax, 3- to 6-flowered, the rachis zig-zagged. Flowers "8 in, across; floral bract oblong, 
acute, convolute, longer than the stalked ovary, caducous. Sepals sub-equal, broadly 
lanceolate, sub-acute, erecto-patent. Petals as long as the sepals, filiform, reflexed. 
Lip oblong; the lateral lobes erect, broadly sub-triangular, obtuse; the terminal 
lobe sub-quadrate, with boldly undulate margins and with two converging lamelle on its 
upper surface; the apex broad, minutely apiculate. Column long, rather straight, very | 
slightly winged towards the apex. Pollinia broadly oblong. Capsule pyriform, obtusely 
angled, "75 to 1 in. long. Lindl. Gen. and Spec. Orch., 40; Fol. Orchid, 10; Walp. 
Ann. Vl, 230; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. V, 838. 
^ Sikkim, in the Lachen Valley at elevations of about 6,000 or 7,000 feet; іп 
flower during June; Pantling, No. 366. Nepal; Wallich. Khasia Hills, at elevations 
of 3,000 to 5,000 feet; Simons, Oldham, Mann. 
The sepals and petals of the Sikkim plant are of a pale yellowish-brown, the tips 
of the side lobes and the whole of the anterior lobe being orange-brown апа the 
column greenish-yellow. In Sikkim we have found this only at comparatively high 
elevations (6,000 to 7,000 feet). But, in the Khasia Hills, the species occurs at much 
lower elevations (3,000 to 4,000 feet) and in a much larger form, the blade of the 
leaf attaining a length of 6 or 7 in. and the peduncle and its raceme measuring as 
much as 10 inches. ۰ 
Prate 190.—Celogyne prolifera, Lindl. A plant; of natural size. Fig. 1 а flower, 2 stalked 
ovary, column and lip, seen in profile, 3 lip, 4 column and anther, 5 empty anther, 6 Hn ; 
all enlarged. 
Анх, Roy. Bor. Garp, Catcutra, Vor. VIII. 
