TAs. 4496. 
CORLOGYNE Wa.uicuit. 
Dr, Wallich’s Ceelogyne. 
Nat. Ord. OrncurpE®.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4440.) 
Cetocyne Wallichiana; pseudo-bulbis ampullaceis vaginisque duris-tubercu- 
latis, pedunculis radicalibus unifloris basi vaginatis, labelli trilobi basi 
saccati lobis lateralibus integerrimis cum intermedio denticulato crispo apice 
truncato integerrimo plicato apiculato confluentibus, disci cristis 4—5 in- 
completis denticulatis, columna apice dentata, Lind. 
Catoceyng Wallichiana. Lindl. Gen.et Sp. Orchid. p. 43. Wall. Pl. Asiat. Rar. 
v. 1. p. 46. 4.54. Bot. Reg. 1840.24.24. , 
Discovered by Dr. Wallich in the mountain district of 
Sylhet and Khasiya, and found in great abundance also by Dr. 
Hooker as he approached Darjeeling in Sikkim-Himalaya, and 
from him the specimens are derived, which are here represented, 
Its range seems to be confined to the eastern extremity of the 
Sub-Himalayan chain. Handsome as this plant is, individually 
(for only one flower arises at a time from each pseudo-bulb, and 
that always at a period when the leaf is absent), yet our repre- 
sentation of three flowering pseudo-bulbs can give no idea of the 
beauty of a tuft of more than twenty such bulbs, each with its 
flower densely compacted, which I had the gratification of seeing 
during my last visit to Chatsworth. Truly, next to the flowering 
Victoria, this was the most interesting of the many botanical 
rarities collected in that princely place. It flowers in the 
summer and autumn. 
Descr. The pseudo-bulbs are no less singular than the flowers 
are beautiful: they are flagon-shaped, dark green, warted, and 
frequently covered with a strong veining of loose net-work, 
formed by the old sheath. From the top of this pseudo-bulb, 
the broadly-lanceolate, solitary, membranaceous, plaited /ea/ arises; 
and it is not till after its decay and disappearance, that the 
flower springs laterally from the pseudo-bulb. It is almost 
FEBRUARY Ist, 1850. 
