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narrower : lip hooded, 3-lobed or undivided, petaloidf often saccate at 

 the base, veins 2 — 3 or more, parallel, cregted, sometimes connate 

 with the base of the column : coluam erect, ffee, winged, membra- 

 naceo-marginate at the apex : ; stigma promiaent, deeply excavated, 

 2-Upped : poUen masses 4, free, incumbent, cohering with granular 

 matter : anther inserted below the top of the column, moveable, 

 scarcely deciduous. — Epiphytous or terrestrial, pseudo-bulbous: leaves 

 1 — 2-nerved : racemes, or solitary flowers, terminal, often bursting 

 from homy scales : flowers white, rose, yeUowiah or spotted with 

 brown, even greenish, verj often showy. 



(1) C. GAEDNEBiiiri. fZindl.J 



Ident. Lindl. in 'Wall. pi. As. rar. I. p. 33, t. 38: fol. orch. 1854, 

 p. 1 — 2. gen. and sp. p. 41. 



Syn. C. tiisaccata, Chriff. Ttiti. notes p. 72. 



Spec. Chae. Pseudo-bulbs elongated, ampnilaceous, tapering : 

 leaves lanceolate, acuminated, long-petioled: racemes nodding, dense- 

 flowered, terminal and radical, much, shorter than the leaves : bracts 

 broad, oblong, hooded, sterile ones fleshy, floriferous ones petaloid, 

 persistent : flowers closed : sepals oblong, keeled, saccate at the 

 base : petals linear-oblong : lip denticulate, with 2 sacs at the base, 

 middle lobe 2-lobed, less than the lateral ones : crest double, 

 evanescent below the middle : flowers large pure white with a 

 yellowish stain at the end of the lip. 



Khasia. The flowers seldom expand, but are placed on long 

 nodding racemes supported by fleshy snow-white bracts. 



(2) C. BEEVisGAPA. (lAndl.) 



Ident. Lindl. fol. orch. 1. c. p. 4. 



Syn. C. angustifoHa, WigMs Icon. t. 1641. 



Spec. Chae. Pseudo-bulbs ovate, corrugated, 1 -leaved : leaves 

 narrow-lanceolate, coriaceous, petioled: scapes few-flowered, very 

 upright, imbricately scaled at the. base : bracts broad, oblong, con- 

 cave, persistent : lateral lobes of the lip obtuse, intermediate one 

 twice as large, sub-rotund, apiculate, with two flexuose veins thickened 

 at the apex, the intermediate one filiform : column denticulate at the 

 apex only : flowers white, Up tinged with yellow. 



NeUgherries, on branches of trees in clumps of forests near 

 Neddiwuttum. 



(3) C ODOBATissiMA. fldndl.J 

 Ident. Lindl. gen. and sp. p. 41 ; fol. orch. p. 5. 

 Engrm. "Wight 1. c. t. 1640. 

 Spec. Chab. Pseudo-bulbs ovate, furrowed : leaves 1 — 2, mem- 



