Tas. 4691. 
COELOGYNE macutata. 
Spotted-flowered Celogyne. 
Nat. Ord. Orncuipes.—GynaNnDRIA MoNANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4440.) 
C@LOGYNE maculata; pseudobulbis depresso-rotundatis basi tuberculatis, foliis 
(serotinis) “ lanceolatis plicatis,” floribus radicalibus, pedunculo brevi vagi- 
nato, labelli lobis lateralibus abbreviatis integris, intermedio ovato retuso 
undulato lineis 5 rectis denticulatis albis interstitiis purpureis. 
C@LOGYNE maculata. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 43; et in Wall. Plant. 
Asiat. Rarior. v. 1. p. 45. t. 58. 
PLEIONE maculata. Lindl. et Paxt. Flower Gard. v. 2. t. 39. 
GompuostyLis candida. ‘ Wallich Ic. Pict. in Museo Anglico-Indico, n. 651.” 
Lindl.) 
A scarcely less beautiful species of Cclogyne than that we 
figured at Tab. 4446 of this work (C. Wallichit) ; and it inhabits 
the same country, growing on rocks in Khasya (Wallich, J. D. 
Hooker, and Thomson) and in Assam, from which latter country 
it was sent by Mr. Simons to the Royal Gardens of Kew. With 
us it flowered in October. The leaves are unfortunately not pro- 
duced at the same time with the flowers; and the pseudo-bulbs, 
though richly coloured with brown and green, and thus contrast- 
ing with the white sepals of the flowers, are strangely misshapen, 
and below, especially, tuberculated almost like a J/ammillaria. 
It belongs to Dr. Lindley’s section of this now very numerous 
genus, Gomphostylis (Wall. MS. Pleione*, Don): “ Folia sero- 
* In the ‘ Flower Garden’ Dr. Lindley has adopted Don’s genus Pleione for this plant, but 
he speaks cautiously of the necessity of so doing; “The habit of the plants (of the genus Pleione) 
is so peculiar that it seems desirable to separate them from Celogyne, if any character can be 
found; and we think the membranous bracts and strongly saccate lip, with fringed veins of 
Pleione, may be taken to offer a sufficient distinction from Celogyne, with its horny or carti- 
laginous deciduous bracts, and lip merely concave at the base, with two or three continuous crests 
rising up from the veins.” The species thus referred to Pleione are, besides our maculata, P. 
lagenaria, P. Wallichiana, P. precox, P. humilis, and P. diphylla. 
JANUARY Ist, 1853. 
