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Prate 195. — Cwlogyne maculata, Lindl. A plant; of natural size. Fig. i lip, 2 column with anther 
ін situ, З тас, 4 anther, 5 pollinia; ай enlarged. 
16. С‹гобүхЕ рвжсох, Lindl. Coll. Bot. 37; in Wall.'Cat. 1965. 
Pseudo-bulbs coespitose, varying in shape at different stages of growth from ampullate 
io turbinate, finally often shortly cylindric, usually umbonate in all stages, the surface 
mottled with brown or purple and imperfectly sheathed by loose brown fibres. 
Leaves in pairs, membranous,. elliptic or elliptic-oblong, many-nerved, occasionally 
somewhat oblanceolate, sub-acute, narrowed at the base to the petiole, 4 to 8 in. long 
and 1:75 to 2:5 in. broad, petiole 1 to 2 in. Peduncle from the base of and about as long 
as the mature pseudo-bulb, its lower half enveloped in tight tubular mottled sheaths, its 
apex 1- or 2-flowered. Flowers large, rose-coloured, 3 or 4 in. across; floral bract obovoid, 
very obtuse, convolute, as long as the stalked ovary or longer. Sepals sub-equal, spreading, 
oblanceolate or lanceolate. Petals as long as but narrower than the sepals, spreading. 
Lip ovate-orbicular, without side lobes, the basal part convolute round the column, the 
anterior part concave, having an open wide repand mouth with deeply and irregular 
lobulate-dentate edges, the apex slightly bifid, the dise with five laciniate lamelle. 
Column very long, with & short sac at the base, the apex expanded into a wide undulate 
irregularly lobulate hood. Pollinia clavate. Lindl. Fol. Orchid, 16; Bot. Mag., t. 4496; 
Paxt. Mag. XIV. t. 7; Hook., fil. Fl. Br. Ind. V, 840. С. Wallichiana, Lindl. Gen. and 
Spec. Orch., 43; in Wall. Pl. As. Rarior. I, 46, t. 54; Bot. Reg. XXIV, Misc. 85; 
Paxt. Mag. VI, t. 25; Gartenflora, t. 283; Jennings’ Orchids, t. 47; Griff. Notul. ІП, 
402, Pleione precoz, Don Prod. Fl. Nep. 37. Р. Wallichii, Lindl. in Рах, Fl. Gard. 
sub. t. 51; P. Birmanica, Reichb, fil, in Gard. Chron., 1882, II, 840, Epidendrum 
precor, Smith Exot. Flora, t. 97. 
Sikkim, at elevations of 6,000 to 8,000 feet, very common; Pantling, No. 96. Westward 
to Gharwal and eastward and southward to Bhutan, the Khasia Hills and Burma. Except 
the lip, the whole flower is of a brilliant rose colour, often tinged with violet. 
The lip has а patch of white on the dise, with a smaller arc of yellow on the 
lamellae. Occasionally a specimen occurs with its flowers pure white. The much 
narrowed base of the lip coheres with the sides of the column to form a small saccate 
nectary. 
Prate 196.—Celogyne precor, Lindl. А plant; 3 а bract flattened out; of natural size. fig. 1, 
lip flattened out, 2 column with anther én situ; 4 anther, 5 pollinia; all enlarged. 
22, Panisea, Lindl. 
Epiphytal; pseudo-buibs small, ovoid, coespitose, 2-leaved. Leaves membranous, plicate, 
Scape from the base of the pseudo-bulb; the raceme lax and few-flowered, flowers rather 
small. Sepals and pefals membranous, sub-equal, narrow, sub-spreading, the lateral pair 
slightly saccate at the base. Lip membranous, as long as the sepals, adnate to the 
base of the column, entire, the disc not lamellate; the claw long, sigmoid, bituberculate. 
Column long, slender below, but dilating upwards into an erose wing, foot none. Anther 
sub-terminal, opercular, 2-celled. Pollinia 4, broadly oblong, the upper three-fourths 
oblique, the lower straight and cohering. | 
