Tas. 7764, 
CQSLOGYNE Verrcuit. 
Native of New Guinea. 
Nat. Ord. Oncurpr.x.—Tribe ErmpenpREs. 
Genus Catocynek, Lindl.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 518). 
Catocyne (Eucwlogyne) Veitchit; pseudobulbis fasciculatis 3-4-pollicaribus 
oblongo-fusiformibus nudis profunde sulcatis demum alte costatis 
diphy]lis, surculis vaginis brunneis tectis, foliis 5-9-pollicaribus elliptico- 
lanceolatis acutis subcoriaceis 3-nerviis supra saturate viridibus basi in 
etiolam brevem brunneum angustatis, scapo basi vaginato cum racemo 
acs multifloro pendulo 1-2-pedali, rhachi gracili, bracteis 3-3} poll. longis 
obloagis acutis convolutis brunneis diu persistentibus, pedicellis cum 
ovario bracteis wquilongis, perianthio subgloboso 43 poll. diam. albo, 
sepalis petalixque erectis concavis incurvis, sepalo postico oblongo- 
lanceolato acuto lateralibus connatis, petalis sepalis minoribus lanceolatis 
demum reflexis, labello sepalis paullo longiore trilobo basi rotundato lobis 
lateralibus obtusis colamnam velantibus terminale late ovato acuto 
revoluto, disco basi 3-carinato, columna brevi apice dilatata et crenata. 
C, Veitchii, Rolfe in Kew Bulletin, 1895, p. 282. 
A very distinct species of a genus of which nearly 
a hundred species are now known. Mr. Rolfe indicates 
the absence of markings on the lip, which bears three 
rather obscure basal keels, and the short column as 
characters quite different from those of any known con- 
geners. It was introduced from western New Guinea by 
Mr. Burke, collector for Messrs. Veitch & Sons, who pre- 
sented the specimen here figured to the Royal Gardens, 
Kew, where it flowered in a hot-house in August, 1900. 
The anthers bore no pollinia. 
Descr.—Lseudobulbs three to four inches long, oblong- 
fusiform, green, naked, when old deeply grooved and 
strongly ribbed, two-leaved, emitting from the base stout 
surculi, clothed with red-brown imbricating scales. Leaves 
five to nine inches long, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, rather 
coriaceous, narrowed at the base into a stout brown 
petiole, dark green above, with three impressed nerves, 
paler and three-ribbed beneath. J?aceme terminal, pendu- 
lous, with the scape one to two feet long, laxly many- 
flowered ; rhachis slender. Pedicels with the ovary one 
Manrcn Ist, 1901, 
