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Cyperorchis elegans. 



Stems short, sheathed at the base by the brown, distichous, truncate 

 bases of the fallen leaves, becoming with age a sub-conic, tapering 

 pseudo-bulb, 2 — 3 inches long. Leaves numerous, linear, bifid at the 

 tip, 15 — 20 inches long, pale striated yellow-green at the base on the 

 under side, grass-green above. Scapes shorter than the leaves, sheathed 

 at the base by brown acuminate scales. Eacemes dense, pendulous, many- 

 flowered. Flowers 1 J inch long, of a uniform light ochreous yellow ; 

 sepals and petals similar, linear-oblong with acute, recurved tips ; lip 

 narrowly wedge-shaped, three-lobed, the side lobes very narroAv, the front 

 lobe short, oblong, obtuse, with two close, orange raised lines on the 

 disk. Column slender, terete above, nearly flat on the side opposite 

 the lip. 



Cyperorchis elegans, Elume, Orch. Archip. Ind. p. 93. t. 4SC, icon analyt. (1849). 

 Bot. Mag. t. 7007. Hook. f. Fl. Brit. lud. VI. p. 14. Cyinbidium elegans, Lindl. 

 Gen. et Sp. Orch. t. 163. Id. Sert. Orch. t. 14. Id. in Journ. Linn. Soc. III. 

 p. 28. Rchb. in Gard. Chron. III. (1875), p. 429. 



Gi/perorchis elegans was originally discovered by Dr. Wallich, in 

 1821, in the forests of Nepal. Then Griffith detected it on the 

 Khasia Hills near Myrung in 1835; it was afterwards gathered by 

 Sir Joseph Hooker in Sikkim (1849) and much more recently by 

 Mr. C. B. Clarke in Manipur; other localities are also given in which 

 it has been found by Indian botanists and explorers in the same 

 region. Its range therefore in the lower Himalayan zone and north- 

 east Bengal is considerable. We find no record of its first introduction 

 into British gardens. 



C. Mastersii. 



Stems Hgneous, 4 — 9 or more inches high and f — 1 inch in diameter. 

 Leaves distichous and closely imbricating at the base, arching or sub- 

 erect, 20 — 30 inches long, acute, Eacemes short, 7 — 10 flowered; basal 

 sheaths 3 — 4, lanceolate, acuminate, pale green. Flowers about 2 



inches long, ivory-white, usually with some rose-purple spots on the lip, 

 ahnond-scented ; sepals and p(!tals linear-oblong, the petals a little the 

 narrower ; lip slightly saccate at the base, three-lobed, the side lobes 

 roundish-oblong, partially embracing the column, the front lobe (epichile) 

 oval, reflexed with undulate margin ; disk Avith two orange raised lines 

 evanescent below. Column terete and green above, almost flat below 

 the stigma, bent at the apex. 



Cyperorchis Mastersii, Benth. in .lourn. Linn. Soc. XVIII. p. 318 (1881). Hook, 

 f. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. p. 15 (1890). Cyinbidium Mastersii, Grillith M.S. ex Lindl. in 

 Bot. Reg. 1845, t. 50. Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 1845, p. 643. Id. in Paxt. Fl. Gard. 

 III. t. 78. Fl. Mag. n.s. t. 391. Luidenia, V. t. 222. Sandei-'s Reichanhachia, 

 II. t. 66 (album). C. affine, Williams' Orch. Alb. III. t. 140. Fl. Mag. n.s. 

 t. 346. 



