Tab. 7006. 

 CCELOGYNE graminifolia. 



Native of Moulmein. 



Nat. Ord. Obchh>e.e. — Tribe Epidendee^e. 

 Genus Ccelogtne, Lindl. ; (Bent//, et HooJc.f. Gen. PI. vol. iii. p. 518.) 



C<elogtne (Erectae) graminifolia ; pseudobulbis confertis ovoideis cotnpressis 

 2-pbyllis demum canaliculars, -foliis gramineis rigidiusculis striatis, scapis 

 erectis breviusculis paucifloris basi vaginatis, vaginis ovato-oblongis arete 

 imbricatis, sepalis petalisque suba?qualibus lanceolatis acuminatis albis, labello 

 trilobo, disco 2-carinato, lobis lateralibus oblongis obtusangulis purpureo-striatis, 

 terrainali brevi ovato-oblongo recurvo aureo purpureo-striato. 



C. graminifolia, Parish and Reichb.f. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xxx. p. 146. 



A native of Moulmein, where it was discovered by the 

 Rev. E. C. Parish, M.A., along with many other interesting 

 Orchidece, of which not a few have been figured in this 

 Magazine. It belongs to a section of the genus that is 

 copiously represented in the mountain region of India, 

 from the Himalaya to the Western Ghats on the West, and 

 the Burmese ranges on the East. Typical examples figured 

 in this Magazine are G. elata, Tab. 5001, C. ochracea, 

 t. 4661, G. ocellata, t. 3767, and G. Cumingii, t. 4645. 



The specimen here figured flowered at Kew in January 

 of the present year ; it was sent in a collection of orchids 

 from Shillong in the Khasia Mountains by Mr. Gustav 

 Mann, Superintendent of Forests in Assam, and is pre- 

 sumably from that country. 



Descr. Pseudobulbs crowded, ovoid, one to one and a 

 half inches long, compressed, acutely ribbed when full- 

 grown. Leaves two at the apex of the pseudobulb, grass- 

 like, twelve to eighteen inches long by half an inch broad, 

 linear-elongate, obtuse or subacute, dark green and deeply 

 grooved above along the midrib, paler keeled and striate 

 beneath. Scape basal, one to two inches long, clothed 

 at the base with ovate-oblong acute closely imbricate 

 sheaths; raceme two- to four-flowered. Flowers nearly 

 two inches wide across the petals; pedicel and ovary 

 together about one inch long. Sepals narrowly oblong- 



july 1st, 188S. 



