Tab. 6955. 

 CCELOGYNE corymbosa. 



Native of the Himalaya and Khasia Mountains. 



Nat. Ord. Okchide^e. — Tribe Epidendee.33. 

 Genus Ccelogyne, Lindl. {Benth. et HooJc.f. Gen. PL vol. iii. p. 518.) 



Ccelogyne (Erectae) corymbosa ; rhizoraate robusto, pseudobulbis 1-1| pollicaribus 

 ovoideis cornpressis demuui supra medium leviter costatis pyramidatisve, foliis 

 2-nis oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis in petiolum brevem angustatis, oorymbis 

 2-3-fioris, noribus 3 poll, latis, sepalis oblongo- v. lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis 

 albis, labello trifido lobis lateralibus erectis antice rotundatis integerrimis v. 

 obscure denticulatis rubro striatis et plaga aurantiaca ocellata notatis, Iobo 

 medio trulliformi v. ovato-lanceolato acuminato carinis 2 crenatis a basi ultra 

 medium productis, disco plaga aurantiaca 2-loba notato, columna gracile apice 

 arcuata cucullata dentata. 



C. corymbosa, Lindl. Fol, Orchid. Coeloqyne, p. 7 ; Reichh. f. in Gard. Chron. 



(1876), pp. 9, 10; Rolfe in Gard. Chron. ser. 3, vol. ii. p. 73, fig. 15. 

 C. ocellata, var. maxima, Dean Floral Magaz. t. 365. 



The Gcelogynes of the Eastern Himalaya threaten to give 

 rise to much controversy amongst both botanists and hor- 

 ticulturists, especially those species belonging to Lindley's 

 section " Erectaa," and amongst them G. corymbosa, brevi- 

 folia and ocellata are the most difficult to define. The 

 plant here figured is, I have no doubt, Lindley's C. corym- 

 bosa, though it differs somewhat from the type, which is 

 described in " Folia Orchidacea " from specimens and a 

 drawing of my own, made in Sikkim in 1848. In this the 

 leaves are small, three to five inches long, and broader in 

 proportion than in the plant here figured ; the sheaths of 

 the peduncle are much more numerous and shorter. There 

 are however, in both my Sikkim and Khasian collections, 

 specimens of the larger form, and others in all respects 

 intermediate between these and the smaller. I have no 

 doubt that, as Mr. Watson has pointed out to me, the plant 

 lono- known in gardens as C. ocellata, maxima, is the same 

 species, though the plate in the " Floral Magazine " quoted 

 above represents a raceme with eight flowers, whereas two 

 or three are the normal number in corymbosa, or very 



sept. 1st, 1887. 



