140 ORCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM-HIMALAYA. 
Lip shortly clawed, sub-orbicular, without side lobes, concave in the lower part but 
expanding into a wide mouth with emarginate apex; the edges entire in the posterior 
sharply and somewhat irregularly dentate in the anterior half, the upper surface with 
numerous fringed lamelle. Column very long, the apex expanded into a broad hood 
with a truncate erose apex; pollinia elliptic. Lindl. Gen. and Spec. Orch., 43; in 
Wall. Cat., 1963 (in part); Fol. Orch., 16; Bot. Mag., t. 5674; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 
V, 810. Pleione humilis, Don Prod. Fl. Nep., 37; Paxt. Fl. Gard., t. 51. Epidendrum 
humil, Sm. Exot. Bot., t. 98. Cymbiaium humile, Smith in Rees Cyclop. 
Sikkim, at elevations of 7,000 to 8,500 feet; in flower during February and 
March ; Pantling, No. 64. Distributed westward to Nepal. 
The lip is speckled with purple towards the edges (on the upper surface), the dise 
being yellow with brown spots, and the lamelle being brown, In some specimens the 
brown on the lip is supplanted by purple or crimson. The column is speckled in front 
with purple. All other parts of the flower are white. The lip is sometimes adnate to 
the sides of the column for one quarter of the length of the latter; in other specimens 
it adheres to the column by its base only. To the European residents of Darjeeling 
the plant is known as the “ Himalayan Crocus.” 
Frare 194.—Celogyne humilis, Lindl. A plant; Fig. 1 lip flattened out, 2 a bract flattened out; 
of natural size; 8 column with anther im situ, 4 anther, 5 pollinia; ай enlarged, 
15. Catocrxe MACULATA, Lindl, Gen. and Spec. Orch. 43. 
Pseudo-bulbs as іп C. precoz, but rather smaller, sometimes constricted at the middle, 
euclosed in а net-work of fibres (old bracts). Leaves two, narrowly elliptic-oblong, acute, 
narrowed to the petiole, their bases sheathed with bracts having nodular inflations ; 
length 45 to 8 in., breadth 1 to 1°75 in. Fiowers 2 to 3 in. across, rising singly 
from the base of the pseudo-bulb by a very short peduncle enveloped in a large 
spathaceous flower bract with broad emarginate apex, convolute, longer than ovary. Sepals 
sub-equal, spreading, oblong, lanceolate, sub-acute. Petals about equal in length to, 
but narrower than, the sepals, oblanceolate-oblong, spreading. Тір broadly elliptic, 
3-lobed, the basal part convolute round the column; the lateral lobes narrow, entire; 
the terminal lobe broader than long, its edges sub-entire, its apex broad and emarginate; 
the upper surface with five to seven pectinate lines disappearing in the dise between 
the side lobes. Column long, slightly curved; the apex winged, irregularly erose,. Anther 
with a small bilobed lip. Pollinia elliptic. Capsule ellipsoid, "8 in. long, its peduncle 
elongating after flowering. Lindl. in Wall. Pl. As. Rarior. I, 45, t. 53; Fol. Orchid., 
15; Bot. Mag., t. 4691; Fl. des Serres, t. 1470; Griff. Notul. ІП, 281; Hook. fil. 
Fl. Br. Ind. V, 841. С. candida, Lindl. in Wall. Cat., 1964. Pleione maculata, Lindl. 
іп Paxt. Fl. Gard., t. 39, fig. 1. Р. aip^ylla, Lindl. in Paxt. Fl. Gard. under t. 51; 
Fol. Orch., 15; Walp. Ann, VI, 234. Calogyne, Griff. Itin. Notes, 44, 684. — Gomphost lis 
candida, Wall. "MSS, 
Sikkim, at elevations of көй 1,600 to 3,000 feet; in flower during October and 
November ; Pantling, No. 21. Nepal; Wallich, Bites Clarke. Khasia Hills, at 
elevations ‘of from 4,000 to 5,000 feet. 
The sepals and petals are white with елиса pink lines, The lip is much 
marked with purple and yellow and the column is green. The flowers are ere 
This species is usually leafless at flowering time. 
