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var. — brachyglossa. 



LijD shorter and more open than in the type, white with a Ught yellow 

 disk on which are some brown spots ; sepals and petals pale rose. 

 C. Hookeriana brachyglossa, Rchb. in Gard, Chion. I. s. 3 (1887), p. 838. 

 Discovered in 1849 — 50 by Sir J. D. Hooker, in the Sikkira 

 Himalayas, at elevations ranging from 7,000 to 10,000 feet, and 

 where it is common on mossy banks. Two varieties were recognised 

 by the discoverer, distinguished from each other by the form of their 

 labellum, one occurring in the lower part of the range of the species 

 (7—8,000 feet), and the other in the higher part (9—10,000 feet). 

 That described and figured in the Botanical Magazine, which may be 

 regarded as the type, is from the lower range, and was introduced in 

 1877 by Mr. Elwes, the author of the splendid monograph of the genus 

 Liliura. The other, from the higher range, is a more recent introduction, 

 and was named brachyglossa by the late Professor Reichenbach, 

 from materials supplied to him from the rich collection of Sir Trevor 

 Lawrence, Bart., at Burford Lodge, 



0. (Pleione) humilis. 



Pseudo-bulbs flask-shaped, 1 — 2 inches? long, ribbed, deep green. 

 Leaves oblanceolate, acuminate, 6 inches long. Flowers 2 — 3 inches 

 across ; sepals and petals linear-lanceolate, white tinted with pale lilac ; 

 lip oval-oblong, convolute at the base into a short tube, open in front, 

 emarginate and fringed with long white hairs ; disk Avith 6 — 8 fringed 

 veins, between which are amethyst-purple lines, the marginal area white 

 spotted with amethyst-purple. Column slender, clavate, winged, bent 

 near the apex. 



Ccelogyne humilis, Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orch. p. 43 (1831). Fol. Orch. Ccelog. 

 No. 41 (1854). Bot. Mag. t. 5674. Pleione humilis, Don. Prod. Fl. nep. p, 37 

 (1835). Paxton's Fl. Gard. II. t. 51. 



sub-vars.— a75a/a (Gard. Chron. III. s 3 (1888) p. 392), flowers 

 white with light purple radiating lines and two orange spots on the 

 lip; tricolor (Williams' Orch. Alb. Til. t. 102), the lines between the 

 fringed veins of the lip orange-brown, the marginal area spotted with 

 the same colour, and with two yellow stains near the apex. 

 Native of Nepal, Sikkim and Bhotan, at 7,000 — 8,000 feet eleva- 

 tion, growing among moss in shady places, and sometimes on the 

 lower parts of the trunks of lofty trees ; also of the Garrow and 

 Khasia Hills, It was originally discovered at the beginning of this 

 century by Dr. Buchanan Hamilton in the first named region, and 

 subsequently it was gathered by Griffith near Santagong in Bhotan. 



