26 ANNALS OF ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
the trunks of trees. Pseudobulbs 31 inches long by 1—1} inches diam., pale green, with 
many longitudinal furrows. Scape inserted on the rhizome near the base о а pseudobulb, 
6 inches long, striate, erecto-patent, clothed throughout with coriaceous sheaths, the lower 
of which are very short and closely imbricate, the upper laxer, an inch long, tubular 
with obtuse mouths. Raceme 4 inches long, ascending, 6-fld.; rachis slender, sub- 
flexuous; bracts rigid, one inch long, elongate-cymbiform, subacute, rather longer 
than the ovary; pedicel slender; flowers pure white except the five yellow crested 
ridges on the lip, which extend from the base to halfway down the terminal lobe. 
Sepals 1 inch long and petals pure white, lateral lanceolate acuminate, dorsal elliptic 
acute; petals as long, oblanceolate, acute, Lip with obtuse short side-lobes and an orbi- 
cular apiculate midlobe. Column truncate at the top. 
Though in most characters a member of a section of  Eucwlogynie which flower from an un- 
developed pseudobulb, and of which the scapes are clothed with imbricating sheaths, it would, if the 
drawing is to be depended upon, differ from all those known to me in the scape springing 
directly from the rhizome, and neither from the base or apex of an old or nascent pseudobulb. Be 
this as it may, C. Kingii is a very different species from any Indian one known to me. Its nearest 
allies are C. Maingayi, Hook £., and the following (C. longibracteata). 
The drawing here reproduced is inscribed “Perak, Kunstler, #4. іп H. B. C., 21-5-86." Fig 4 
is drawn from a dried lip, by Miss Smith at Kew. 
Fig. 1, flower; 2, the same with the sepals and petals detached, and lip removed; 3, column and lip; 4, lip; 5 aad 6, 
anther ; 7, pollinia :— all of the natural size. 
PLATE 39, | 
C«LOGYNE LONGIBRACTEATA, Hook. f. 
С. longibracteata; rhizomate elongato erecto?, pseudobulbis ovoideis sulcatis, foliis 
petiolatis elongato-lanceolatis acuminatis 3-nerviis, scapo elongato striato erecto-patente 
paucifloro fere ad apicem vaginato, vaginis basi paucis brevibus caeteris valde elongatis 
tubulosis, suprema racemum foliaque 2-emittente, racemo stricto erecto, bracteis longissimis 
23—3 pollicaribus lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis strictis deciduis, floribus albis 23 poll. diam., 
sepalis lanceolatis acuminatis, petalis lineari-oblanceolatis acutis, labelli albi lobis laterali- 
bus brevibus rotundatis, terminali orbiculari, disco cristis 5 aureis medio evanidis 
percurso. 
_ Has.—Perax, Kunstler. 
___ Rhizome rather stout, probably erect or inclined against the trunks of trees. Pseudo- 
bulbs ovoid, green, many-furrowed, 11—2 in. long. Leaves 6—7 by 1—14 in., pale-green, 
3-nerved; petiole 1 in. Scape 6 in., striate, subereet, clothed for the greater part with 
green sheaths, of which the lower few are short and looser, the rest. very long and 
tubular; a pair of erect young leaves, longer than the raceme, protrude with the latter 
from the uppermost sheath; raceme 3 in., erect, strict, 3—5-fld.; bracts very. long, 
slender, striate, concave, at length deflexed ; pedicel with ovary 1 in., decurved; flowers 
. deflexed, white, fragrant. Sepals lanceolate, acuminate ; petals oblanceolate, acute; lip 
_ with the midlobe as long as the hypochil, nearly orbicular, its margins crisped towards 
the base; lobes of hypochil rounded; disk with five golden-crested ridges running from 
the base to the middle of the midlobe. 
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