Tab. 7176. 



CCELOGYNE, Kossiana, 



Native of Burma. 



"Nat. Ord. OiichidEjE. — Tribe Epidendee^e. 

 Genus Ccelogyne, LindL; (Benth. et HooTc.f. Gen. PI. vol. iii. p. 518.) 



CffiLOGYNE (Eucoelogyne) Bossiana ; pseudobulbis magnis ovoideis 8-10- 

 sulcatis, foliis petiolatis elliptico-lanceolatis, scapo e basi pseudobulbi 

 brevi yalido decurvo dein erecto vaginis brevibus coriaceis arete 

 appressis imbricatis tecto, racemo brevi erecto paucifloro, bracteis lanceo- 

 latis ovaria subajquantibus caducis, sepalis anguste lanceolatis acutis 

 petalisque linearibus obtusis albis, labello angusto hypochilo testaceo 

 cristis 2 crenatis percurso, angulis (lobis lateralibus obscuris) rotundatis, 

 epichilo parvo ovato revoluto, columna apice obtuse triloba. 



C. Rossiana, Beichb.f. in Gourd. Clwon. 1884, vol. ii. p. 808; Rolfe in Gard. 

 Ghron. 1889, pt. ii. p. 650 ; Veitch Man. Orchid. Ccelogyne, p. 48 ; Hook.f. 

 Fl. Brit. Tnd. vol. v. p. 843, vi. p. 193. 



When describing the Ccelogynes for the Flora of British 

 India, 1 knew this plant only from the description of 

 Reichenbach, which did not enable me to classify it under 

 the new arrangement of the species which I gave in that 

 work. I, however, suggested its affinity to be with G. 

 flaccida, from which it differs in the remarkable decurved 

 and then erect stout scape clothed from the base to the 

 flowers with rigid green short obtuse closely imbricating 

 sheaths. The erect few-fid. raceme brings it nearer to 

 C. lentiginosa, also a native of Tenasserim, as does the 

 scape sheathed throughout its length ; but this latter 

 species differs from G. Rossiana in the four-angled pseudo- 

 bulb, pale green petals, and the large broad shortly clawed 

 epichile of the lip, which is blotched with orange. G. 

 Rossiana was introduced from Tenasserim by the Rev. C. 

 Parish, by whom plants were sent to Kew in 1878. In 

 1884 Mr. Ross, of Castagnolo, near Florence, flowered 

 plants of it procured also from Burma (probably Tenas- 

 serim) ; ^and it was named after that skilful cultivator by 

 Dr. Reichenbach in the same year. The plant from which 

 the accompanying drawing was made flowererl in the Royal 

 Gardens in December, 1889. 



May 1st, 1891. 



