CCELOGYNE speciosa. 
Showy Celogyne. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ORCHIDACEA. $ EPIDENDREA. (OrcHıns, Vegetable 
Kingdom, p. 181.) 
CGILOGYNE.— Botanical Register, vol. 11. fol. 868. 
C. speciosa ; pseudobulbis ovato-oblongis costatis monophyllis, foliis oblongo- 
lanceolatis 5-7-nerviis, pedunculis unifloris squamatis pseudobulbis 
parum longioribus, sepalis oblongis, petalis linearibus reflexis, labelli 
trilobi laciniis lateralibus anticé denticulatis intermediä bilobä rotundatä 
cristis duabus muricatis crassis sub apice ipso labelli confluentibus tertiä 
brevi tenui basilari interjectá, columnse margine latissimo apice truncato 
dentato. Pos ; 
C. speciosa, Lindl. gen. $ sp. Orch. p. 39. 
The species of Celogyne now figured was sent from Java 
to Messrs. Veitch of Exeter, by their collector, Mr. Thomas 
Lobb, and by them communicated, in October, 1846, as a free 
growing, free flowering plant. 
It is certainly the Chelonanthera speciosa of Dr. Blume, 
notwithstanding his statement that his plant has only two 
crests upon the lip, and his reference to the Angrecum ner- 
vosum of Rumphius; for the figure given by the former 
author in his Tabellen has three crests, and it is clear that 
Rumphius's figure is intended for quite a different plant, with 
a terminal, not radical, inflorescence. 
The pale tawny sepals and petals, and pitch-brown lip of 
this plant detract from its beauty, notwithstanding that they 
are relieved by a broad white column, and a pure white ter- 
mination to the lip, and that its flowers are nearly four inches 
in diameter when fully expanded. They have, however, a 
very singular appearance, and if they are produced in greater 
numbers will be attractive so long as the white remains 
unchanged. 
