138 CRCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM-HIMALAY A. 
11. C«roersE ‘FLAVIDA, Wall. MSS. ex Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 
V, 839. 
Pseudo-bulbs elongated-ovoid, shrunken when in flower, sheathed at the base, 1'5 to 
2 in. long, standing from 1 to 15 in. apait on a scaly rhizome :25 in. thick. Leaves іп 
pairs, narrowly elliptic-oblong, acute, contracted at the base into the petiole; length 4 to 
7 in. long, breadth :75 to 1°25 in. Peduncle terminal, naked below, but with many 
small imbrieate sealy sheaths just under the flowers, ойтеп proliferous from the production 
of flowers several years in succession on the, annually lengthening axis. Raceme V5 to 
2:5 in. long, laxly few-flowered. Flowers *5 in. across; floral brací large, scarious, 
broadly ovate, acute, eonvolute, longer than the slender stalked ovary. Sepals sub-equal, 
spreading, ovate, bluntly acuminate. Petals lincar, spreading, as long as the sepals, 
obtuse. Lip oblong, 3-lobed, the basal half concave; the side lobes small, oblong, obtuse; 
the terminal lobe decurved, cuneately obcordate, separated from the lateral lobes by 
two broad sinuses, its disc faintly 2-ridged. Column long, straight, very slightly 
winged near the apex; pollinia dimidiately clavate. Hook. fil ex Lindl. Fol. Orchid, 10; 
Walp. Ann. V, 223; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. V, 839; in Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc., V, 28, 
t. 42. | 
Sikkim, ascending to elevations of 5,000 feet; very common, in flower from May to 
July and even later; Pantling, No. 29. Naga Hills; at Kohima, Prain. Khasia Hills ; 
G. Mann. 
The flowers are of a pretty uniform pale yellow, 
Рглте 191.—Celogyn2 flavida, ‘Wall. A plant; 4 a floral bract; of natural size. Fig. I a 
flower, 2 stalked ovary, column and lip in profile, 3 eolumn and anther, 5 transverse section of 
lip through the side lobes, 6 empty anther, 7 pollinia ; ай enlarged. 
12. Сашовүхе ОМІРІОКА, Lindl. in Wall. Cat., 1966. 
Pseudo-bulbs coespitose, broadly ovoid, mammillate, with some loose fibrous sheaths 
at the base, “6 to 1:2 in. long. Leaves in pairs, narrowly oblong , acuminate, slightly 
narrowed at the base, sessile, 2 to 3'5 in. long and “35 to “45 in. biat Plower solitary 
on a short peduncle from the base of the pseudo-bulb and usually shorter than it ; 
the peduncle up to its junction with the ovary sheathed in lanceolate acuminate 
imbricate bracts. Sepals oblong-lanceolate, sub-acute, spreading. Petals broadly lanceo- 
late, sub-acute, shorter than the sepals. Zip oblong, with a very short claw at the 
base; the side lobes erect, narrow, with their dente apices саа forwards, the 
Baths between the lateral and side lobes with undulate edges; the anterior lobe 
ovate, blunt, entire, the disc between the lamelle with two eli ridges. Column 
winged, with two broad, erose, marginal lobes below the stigma, the apex above the 
нае with a central broad shallow lobe and two teeth at each end of it.  Pollinia 
broadly oblong, oblique. Capsule ellipsoid, winged, *6 in. long. Lindl, Gen. and 
Buch Огол., 42; Hook. fil Fl. Br. Ind, 812; in Ann, Bot. Gard, Cale. Lh ТӘП Y, 
29, t. 43. Panisea uniflora, Lindl. Fol. Ordi; 2; Walp. Ann. VI, 240, Epidendrum, 
GE lo. PL. Авар, %, 313, fig. 1. 
. . Sikkim, at elevations from 500 to 4,000 feet; in flower during April and May; 
—— No. 71. Nepal; Wallich, Khasia Hills; Griffith. Tenasserim; Fal 
