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lip oblong, half an inch long, with short rounded lobes, apex
truncate, five elevated veins on the centre, dull purplish pink
with a cream edge or darker purple with a yellow edge.
Column yellowish striped with pink. The buds pink. The
fruit globose to ovoid, pendulous, green, with a broad
purple bar over each fertile segment and a narrower one between
each ; it is as big as a small gooseberry.
The plant is always terrestrial. It does not appear to
have been met with outside the Malay Peninsula, where it
occurs on Gunong Bubu, Gunong Inas, and Gunong Ulu Kali.
I am quite unable to guess why Reichenbach put this very
distinct and peculiar genus under Arundina, from which it
differs in habit, foliage, inflorescence, form of the lip, and
most notably, in its three anthers and peculiar dehiscence
of the fruit.
*2I3. CCELOGYNE DaYANA, var. MASSANGEANA.
Ccelogyne cymhidioides, Ridl. op. cit. p. 329.
Very abundant on the trees overhanging the streams of
;he Padang and the Teku River, and also in the Gully. The
plant described by me as C. cymhidioides (Journ. Linn. Soc,
Bot. xxxviii. p. 329) is a rather odd form, which was terrestrial,
but is obviously an abnormal condition. The plants here were
very fine, the pendent spra3^s of flowers reaching four feet in
length.
214. Cgelogyne longibracteata, Hook. fil. A single
specimen, iflentical with the plant of the Sempang Mines, was
brought in by the men from the ridge between Wray's Camp
and the Padang. ,
215. Ccelogyne (§ Specios^) xanthoglossa, n, sp.
Rhizome stout, woody; pseudobulbs conic, four-angled,
ij inches long. Leaves solitary, oblanceolate-acuminate, long-
petioled, 5-nerved, 7 inches long, nearly 2 inches wide; petiole
2 inches long. Raceme 2 inches, 1-2-flowered ; peduncle
stout, i^ inch long. Bract lanceolate-acuminate, i\ inch long.
Pedicel very short ; ovary 6-winged, short. Sepals lanceolateacute,
keeled, 2 inches long, pinkish, whiter at the base. Petals
very narrow, linear acute, nearl}?^ as long. Lip 3-lobed; sidelobe
oblong, I inch long ; mid-lobe lanceolate, edges crisped,
acute; keels from the base, 3, low, edge crisped, median one
lowest, not hairy, canary-yellow; keels orange; centre of midlobe
orange, margins pinkish. Column very stout, white;
margin ofclinandrium rounded ; wings large, rounded. Anther
large, half an inch long, ovate-obtuse, pale yellow. PoUinia
pyriform, large, yellow. Rostellum large, ovate, entire.
Stigma deep and wide with a distinct lip.
Woods on the Padang. A single plant brought in by the
Dyaks.
Perhaps most closely allied to C. Rumphii, Lindl., very distinct
in its yellow lip, with 3 low keels, the central one of which
runs to the tip, the others half down the lip.