114 EPIDENDREX: 
4, CELOGYNE ELATA Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 1959. 
Pseudo-bulbs oblong-cylindrie, rising at distances of about 5 cm. from a very stout 
sheathed rhizome, 7°8 to 12:8 em. long and 8'8 to 7 cm. broad, polished and sheathed at 
the base. Leaves in pairs, the blade 1:75 to 3:5 em. long, narrowly elliptic-oblong, 
acute, tapering into the long petiole, thinly coriaceous. Peduncie from the apex of the 
adult pseudo-bulb between the leaves and rather shorter than them, bearing many short 
imbricate sheaths just under the raceme.  Zacemes 10 to 15 cm. long, distichous, laxly 
many-flowered. — Powers З cm. across, rather fetid; floral bract subrhomboid, acute, 
conduplicate, slightly longer than the stalked ovary, caducous. Sepals subequal, oblong, 
sub-acute, spreading. Petals as long as the sepals, but much narrower, sub-acute. Lip 
elongate, the lower part oblong and with narrow entire side lobes; terminal lobe 
suborbicular, undulate and irregularly erose; disk with two erose-crenulate lamelle from 
the base nearly to the apex. Column winged above, the wing erose at the apex. 
Pollinia dimidiately ovate. Capsule clavate, 3°5 cm. iong. Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch, 
40; in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. ii, 12, t. 218; Bot. Reg. 1839, Mise. 92; Fol, Orch. 9; 
Bot. Mag. t. 5001; Walp. Ann. vi, 230; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. v, 838; King & 
Pantl in Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Cale. viii, 136, t. 188; Rolfe in Journ. Lin». 
Зое. xxxvi, 22. Celogyne sp., Griff. Іс. РІ, Ав. t. 290. 
Garhwál 4-5,000 feet, Falconer, Mackinnon; Kumaon in the Sarju Valley 3-4,000 
feet, Strachey ¥ Winterbottom No. 14, Duthie’s collector Nos. 24131, 24182; flowering 
during April and May.  Eastwards to Nepal, Sikkim, Upper Burma and China. 
5. Canoayne Hooxertana Lindl. Fol. Orch. 14. 
Pseudo-bulbs coespitose, oval, with a few lax sheaths, smooth, not mottled, 2 to 2°5 
em. long. Leaf solitary, from the base of the adult pseudo-bulb, petioled; the blade 5 
to 6:5 em. long, narrowly elliptic; petiole 2 to 3 cm, long, enclosed in tubular imbricate 
sheaths. Peduncle enveloped in the same sheaths which surround the base of the 
undeveloped leaf and longer than the latter. Flower solitary, 5 cm. across, pale rose- 
purple or white; floral bract about as long as the stalked ovary, broadly obovate-elliptic, 
very obtuse, convolute, persistent. Sepals spreading, sub-equal, elliptic-oblong, blunt; 
the dorsal one narrower than the lateral pair. Petals spreading, as long as the sepals, 
oblanceolate, obtuse.. Lip white tinged with yellow towards the apex and blotched with 
reddish-brown, sub-reniform, cordate at the base and entire, somewhat lobulate and 
minutely erose along the apical portion, apex retuse; disk with five to seven slender 
ciliate ridges from the base nearly to the apex. Column long, curved, broadly winged 
in its upper half, its apex truncate and erose. Pollinia obliquely elliptic. Bot, Mag. t. 
6388; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind, v, 842; King & Pantl in Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Calc. 
viii, 139, t. 193. 
Dwali in Kumaon at 9,000 feet, Collett; flowering in June.  Eastwards to 
Sikkim. 
6. CŒLOGYNE PRECOX Lindl, Coll. Bot. 37. 
Pseudo-bulbs coespitose, | flask-shaped, turbinate or shortly cylindric, umbonate, surface 
mottled with brown or purple, snd loosely sheathed by a network of brown fibres. 
