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the inflorescence the colour becomes lighter and the striped light-green colour 

 spreads; but to the lowest the tops are violet. The bracteoles are short, 

 not more than 14 mm. long, ovate, concave, hairy, hyaline with a pink 

 top. The flowers are slender, though the tube is short, to the hair-ring 

 not more than 17 mm. but the faux is 15 mm. long and narrows down- 

 ward. In a flower of rather more than 50 mm. the ovary was 3, thecoroll 

 tube 16, the faux and border to the top of the lip 32 mm. to the top of 

 the staminodes but 28. The calyx is with the ovary somewhat shorter than 

 the bracteole, with very short blunt teeth, quite hairy, the stylodia rather 

 more than 5 mm. long. The lip is rhomboidal, downward narrowed and 

 claw-shaped. The broad triangular, deeply cleft mid-lobe is much protruded 

 and is a little recurved. Lip 15X15 to 17 X 17, claw 4: 8 — 10 mm. broad. 

 Staminodia proportionally long, broadest in the middle (inner edge 10, 

 outer edge 15 mm. diameter 8 mm.), and hardly wrinkled. The filament 

 (the free portion) is broadly ovate, 3 mm. long and as broad at the base. 

 The anther is relatively small with a very short rounded lingule and short 

 subulate or awl-shaped spurs, not longer than '/4 the length of the 

 anther, and with a groove on the face, see above p. 28 and PI. 111. The lateral 

 petals are rotundate-ovate-oblong, white with a yellow or pink top, pel- 

 lucid. The flower is for the rest very light-orange (161 — 166); the stami- 

 nodes and lip-middle-band are somewhat darker (156). 



The description was made from two living specimens cultivated in the 

 Bot. garden and in the cultures of Mr. Hf.yne both grown from rootstocks pur- 

 chased at the "bazars" of Buitenzorg and Batavia. The two forms are not 

 quite identical. One of them (H. Bog. 66.9) is to be distinguished from the 

 other by the smaller elliptic leaves and the smaller and very lax almost 

 glabrous spikes; while the construction of the flowers is almost identical; 

 only here they are always smaller. The dimensions of the leaves of the 

 smaller form were: 195 X 80 + 75, 280X 140 + 70, 300X 140 + 85, 

 200X 135 -f 80, 310X138 -|- 160 (Prop. 2.1). 



The description of both plants agrees sufficiently with Roxburgh's 

 description of C. petiolata and also with the picture given by Roscoe. 

 Only in the latter the colour of the bracts has a much bluer tinge (589-533) 

 and the pouches seem to be relatively longer. The difference however 

 between our plant and C. petiolata Roxb. is certainly of much less conse- 

 quence than that between the latter and C. petiolata as pictured and des- 

 cribed by Hooker I.e., where the flowering bracts are adnate only to the 

 middle, and the colour is rose-pink (551-556). As to C. corrfafo Wall (1830 

 t 10)= Hooker (1849 t 4435), quoted as a synonym by Baker I.e., and 

 K. Schumann 1. c, 1 consider this as a distinct species, distinguished by 

 the pubescence, and also by the form of the staminodes, which in both 

 pictures seem to be rather profoundly furrowed. 



