Tas. 8262. 
COELOGYNE venusra. 
Yunnan. 
ORcHIDACEAE. ‘Tribe EPIDENDREAE. 
CoELoGyNE, Lindl.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 518; Pfitzer in 
Engl. Pflanzenr. Coelogyninae, p. 20. 
Coelogyne venusta, Holfe in Gard. Chron, 1904, vol. xxxv. p. 259; Orch. Rev. 
1904, p. 185; Pfitzer in Engl. Pflanzenr. Coelog. pp. 71, 72, fig. 26 B; a 
C. Dayana, Reichb. f., labelli Jobis lateralibus oblongis, lobo intermedio 
obovato-oblongo, carinis 2 sulco profundo disjunctis, additis utrinque 
2 brevioribus differt. 
Herba, pseudobulbi elliptico-oblongi, subtetragoni, sulcati, basi vaginis lanceo- 
latis vestiti, in rhizomate repente satis distantes, diphylli, 4-6 cm. longi, 
2-2°5 cm. crassi. Folia in petiolum brevem angustata, elliptico-oblonga 
vel lanceolata, acuminata, supra nitida, 12-18 cm. longa, 2°5-4°5 em. lata, 
nervis 3 subtus prominentibus percursa. Scapi penduli, graciles, multiflori, 
25-35 cm. longi, basi vaginis lanceolatis acutis obtecti. Bracteae late 
ellipticae, obtusae, convolutae, persistentes, circa 1-5 cm. longae. Pedicelli 
graciles, circa 1‘5cm. longi. los pallide lutescens, labellum album, lobi 
laterales uti centrum lobi medii lutei, carinae brunneo-maculatae. Sepala 
ovato-oblonga, apiculata, concava, dorso carinata, 1*2-1°5 cm. longa. 
Pelala lineari-oblonga, acuta, 1°2-1°5 em. longa. Labellum trilobum, 
concavum, 1°2-1°5 em. longum; lobi laterales erecti, semioblongi, antice 
rotundati; lobus medius late obovato-oblongus, undulatus, emarginatus ; 
carinae 4, undulatae, quarum 2 ad basin extensae, sulco profunde separatae, 
2 brevioribus utrinque extra additis. Coluwmna arcuata, late alata, 1 cm. 
longa.—R. A. Ronre. 
Coelogyne venusta is a very distinct species which 
Mr. Rolfe would refer to the section Tomentosae, but 
which the late Dr. Pfitzer was inclined, on account of the 
remarkable lip, to treat as the type of a separate section, 
the Venustae. A smaller plant than most of its nearer 
allies, it is distinguished from all of them by the relatively 
greater size of the anterior as compared with the lateral 
lobes of the lip. For its introduction to this country, from 
8.W. China, horticulture is indebted to Messrs. Sander of 
St. Albans; a plant supplied by them flowered in 1904 at 
Glasnevin, whence came the material on which the original 
account of the species was based. It thrives well under the 
conditions suited to the Himalayan Ooelogynes, 
Juty, 1909. 
