A CENTURY OF INDIAN ORCHIDS; (J. D. HOOKER). 27 
A species remarkable for the great length ef the bracts, which far exceed those of any other 
Indian species known to me. It belongs to the same section as C. Maingayi and С. Kingii, but 
differs from both in the two long leaves the petioles of which are embraced in the same sheaths as 
the scape. In the Flora of British India the pseudobulbs are by error described as obovoid 
instead of ovoid. 
The drawing is inscribed “Kunstler, Perak, in H.B.C., introd. 4-5-83, fld. 1.9-83, б. King.” 
Fig. 1, flower of natural size; 2, lip enlarged by Miss Smith from a flower which accompanied the drawing. 
PLATE 40, 
'CarocYNE (Eucelogyne) suavEoLens, Hook. f. 
C. suaveolens; rhizomate robuste repente squamis ovatis acutis arcte imbricatis 
tecto, pseudobulbis magnis remotis elongato-obfusiformibus ovoideisve, foliis magnis 
sessilibus v. petiolatis elliptico-lanceolatis acuminatis 5-nerviis marginibus undulatis, scapo 
ascendente toto vaginato, vaginis viridibus coriaceis inferioribus distichis ovatis acumi- 
natis arcte imbricatis superioribus longioribus, supremo foliaceo, racemo multifloro nutante 
rachi sub-articulato, bracteis spathaceis caducis, floribus distichis albis, sepalis erectis 
oblongo-lanceolatis acutis, petalis obovato-oblongis, labelli hypochilio angusto lobis rotun- 
datis, epichilio dilatato late ovato v. orbiculare, disco cristis 4 v. 6 aureis percurso. Hook. 
f. Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 832. С. undulata, Wall. mss. Pholidota suaveolens, Lindl. in. Gard, 
Chron. 1836, 312. 
Has.—Kuasta Hırıs. Sikkim, at Mungpo, alt. 1,500 ft., Clarke, Assam (Ic. in. 
Herb. Hort., Calcutta). | | 
Rhizome as stout ав a goose-quill, creeping, clothed with closely imbricating ap- 
pressed ovate acute distichous brown scales $ in. long. Pseudobulbs 2—3 in. long, usually 
narrowly ovoid, with a few very slender ribs. Scape ascending, densely clothed with 
distichous sheaths, the lower of which resemble those of the rhizome, but are green, the 
upper gradually longer and more lax, the uppermost foliaceous closely embracing the 
young emerging leaves; raceme 4—6 in., inclined or drooping, many-fld.; bracts 
distichous, coriaceous, striate, cymbiform, as long as the rachis, articulate; pedicel with 
` ovary 1 in. curved sigmoidly ; flowers white, $—$ in. long, very fragrant. Sepals and 
petals erect, concave, subequal, pure white. Zip as long as the sepals, white with golden 
ridges on the disk. Column short for the genus. 
An interesting species, as showing a strong affinity with Pholidota in habit, in the closed dis- 
` tichous flowers and sub-articulate rachis of the raceme, and in the column beiag shorter than in the 
“typical Cologynes; but the large flowers, and form of the lip, which is not sacoate, and the far longer 
column than that of any Pholidota, and which is neither hooded nor winged, effectually exclude it 
from the latter genus. 
The drawing is marked “Assam, 20-4-80, G. King.” 
Fig. 1, bract; flower with sepals and petals detached; 3, lip; 4, side view of ovary and column; 6, the same view 
in front and 6, from behind; 7, column; 8, anther; 9, polliria:—gl! enlarged. 
Ann. Roy. Вот. Garp. Catc., Vor. V. 
