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Pleione praecox, Don, Prodr. p. 37; Rolfe in Orch. Rev. 
1903, Pp. 290. 
Coelogyne praecox, Lindl. Collect. Bot. p. 37; Hook. f. Fl. 
Brit. Ind. v, p. 840. 
“ Plant of 6-10 inches. Flowers rose-magenta, with deeper 
markings of the same. Epiphyte on trees, in moist, dense forest 
on the Irrawadi-Ming-Kwong divide, also in the Irrawadi 
basin. Lat. about 26° N. Alt. 6000-9000 ft. Upper Burmah 
and N.W. Yunnan, October 1905.” G. Forrest. No. 851. 
Pleione yunnanensis, Rolfe in Orch. Rev. 1903, p. 292. 
Coelogyne yunnanensis, Rolfe in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxvi, 
pi23: 
“ Mekong-Salwin divide, N.W. of Tsekou. Alt. unknown. 
Tibet, 1904.” G. Forrest. No. 26 
° Cymbidium Forrestii, Rolfe. Sp. nov. Plate xi. 
C. virescens, Schlechter in Notes, Roy. Bot. Gard., Edin., 
XXxiv, p. 112 (not of Lindl.). 
Rhizoma validum. Folia fasciculata, 6~7, anguste linearia, 
acuta, minutissime denticulata, 30-40 cm. longa, 4-6 mm. lata, 
suberecta vel arcuata, basi vaginis ovatis striatis obtecti. Scapi 
erecti, subvalidi, 15-20 cm. longi, vaginis lanceolatis vel oblongo- 
lanceolatis acuminatis striatis numerosis imbricatis obtecti, 1~2- 
flori. Bracteae lanceolatae, acuminatae, concavae, 3-4 cm. 
longae. Pedicelli 1.5-2.5 cm. longi. Sepalum posticum ob- 
longum, subobtusum, 2.5 cm. longum, 6 mm. latum; sepala 
lateralia oblonga, subobtusa, 2 cm. longa, 6 mm. lata. Petala 
oblonga, subobtusa, circiter 1.8 cm. longa, 6 mm. lata. Labellum 
trilobum, circiter 1.8 cm. longum, I-1.2 cm. latum ; lobi laterales 
semiorbiculares, apice rotundati, lobus intermedius suborbicu- 
laris, obtusus vel apiculatus, undulatus, concavus, 1 cm. longus, 
7 mm. latus; callus obovatus, basi. adnatus, apice bilobus. 
Columna clavata, arcuata, 2.3 cm. longa. 
‘‘In dry, rocky pine woods on hills west of Yunnanfu. Ele- 
vation gooo ft. Yunnan, $.W. China, February 1905.” G. 
Forrest. No. 415. 
Closely resembling the Japanese C. virescens, Lindl., in habit, 
but markedly different in the shape of the lip and crest. 
Cymbidium grandifiorum, Griff., Notul. iii, p. 342 ; Hook. f. 
Brit. Ind. vi, p. 12; Rolfe in I-F-S. iii, p. 30. 
“Growing at China Inland Mission, Talifu. Alt. 6500 ft. 
Yunnan, 1904.” G. Forrest. No. 240. 
