Tas. 4785. 
COKLOGYNE rTestacea. 
Clay-coloured Ceelogyne. 
Nat. Ord. OrncHipE%.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4440.) 
CaLocyne ¢estacea; pseudobulbis angustis ovalibus angulatis, foliis lanceolatis 
tri-costatis, racemo pendulo, bracteis ovatis cucullatis ovaril longitudine, 
sepalis petalisque subzequalibus, labelli oblongi lobis lateralibus rotundatis 
obsoletis intermedio obtuso, venis 4 papillato-cristatis. 
Ca@LoeyNE testacea. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1842. Misc. n. 34. 
Introduced by Messrs. Loddiges from Sincapore. Its racemes, 
as Dr. Lindley justly observes, “have a dull clay colour, which 
renders them anything but handsome.” In this respect the 
plant is very unlike other species of the genus, in which the play 
of colour, often on the purest white ground, is peculiarly beauti- 
ful. The plant blossoms readily in the stove, and generally in 
the early summer months. 
Descr. Pseudo-bulds clustered, oblong-ovate, dark green, 
varying in size, compressed and angled, partially clothed from 
below with large brown scales, and sending down coarse fibrous 
radicles from below. Leaves terminal on the pseudo-bulbs, 
broad lanceolate, submembranaceous, acute, petiolate, striated, 
and with three principal longitudinal ribs ; petio/e one-third as 
long as the leaf. Peduncle from the base of the bulb, arising 
from the axil of a large brown withered scale, and itself clothed 
for nearly its whole length with leafy imbricated scales. Maceme 
drooping, about, as long as the leaf, bearing 8-10 subdistichous 
flowers. Bracteas large, ovate, brown, membranaceous, cu- 
cullate, concealing the ovary. Sepals and petals nearly uni- 
form, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, but somewhat apiculate, pale 
clayey white, subpatent. Zip scarcely longer than the sepals, 
broad-oblong, recurved, three-lobed, white, spotted and blotched 
JUNE lst, 1854. 
