Tab. 6979. 



CCELOGYNE Massangeana. 

 Native of Assam. 



Nat. Ord. OncHiDEJE. — Tribe Epidendbe.e. 

 Genus Ccelogyxe, Lindl. ; {Benth. et Rook.f. Gen. PL vol. Hi. p. 518.) 



Ccelooyne (Euccelogyne) Massangeana ; pseudobulbo obpyriforme, foliis petiolatis 

 elliptico-lanceoiatis auuininatis subplicato-nervosis in petiolum teretiusculum 

 attenuatis, pedunculo basi pseudobulbi orto robusto, racemo pedali pendulo 

 laxe pluriHoro, bracteis spathaceis coriaceis cymbitbrmibus brunneis, floribus 

 pallida ocbraceo-citrinis, sepalis lineari-oblongis obtusis, petalis sepalis sequi- 

 longis sed angusttoribus ellipticis v. oblaneeolatis acutis, labello sepalis aequi- 

 longo basi haud saccato, lobis lateralibus elongato oblongis obtusis incurvis 

 intus brunneo striatis, disco inter lobos 3-cristato et 3-carinato, lobo terminal! 

 parvo suborbiculari disco late tutnido tuberculato, colnrnna pallida auguste 

 alata, vertice crenulato. 



C. Massangeana, Beichh. in Gard. Citron, x. (1878), p. 681, and vol. xvii. (1882) 

 p. 3(>'J ; Floral Magazine N.S. t. 373; Warner and Williams Orchid 

 Album, t. 29. 



Reichenbach, the author of this as of so many other 

 species, rightly indicates its affinities to be with Lindley's 

 0. asperata, a native of Borneo, with a many-flowered dense 

 subpubescent raceme, and indeed the two seem to be very 

 nearly allied, for they agree in the colour and form of the 

 sepals, in the tip being " richly marked with brownish-yellow 

 veins springing from a rugged bright-orange central ridge," 

 and in the drooping raceme a foot long of large flowers. 

 There is, however, in C. Massangeana no trace of pubes- 

 cence on the raceme, and the midlobe of its lip could 

 not be called oblong. 



G. Massangeana was described by Reiclienbach in 1878 

 from specimens that flowered in the Chateau de Baillon- 

 ville, pres Marche, the residence of M. de Massange, an 

 enthusiastic orchidophilist, and was procured from Messrs. 

 Jacob Makoy and Co. ; no locality for the plant, however, is 

 given. It is reported to be a native of Assam, -but I 

 should not be surprised if it proved to be Malayan. The 

 specimen here figured was presented by Messrs. Veitch 

 and Sons, and flowered in the Royal Gardens in October 

 of last year. 



*eb. 1st, 1888. 



