of a rather darker rosy-lilac shade with the bract more 
distinctly lined with red. The species has thriven well 
in a tropical house under the conditions and treatment 
suitable for the Indian P. Hookeriana, which it resembles, 
figured at t. 6388 of this work as a Coelogyne. 
Description.—Herb, terrestrial; pseudobulbs wide-ovoid or depressed-ovoid, 
olive-green, when old obscurely angled, 3-8 in. across, 1-foliate, clothed with 
acute membranous sheaths. Leaves immature at time of flowering, elliptic- 
lanceolate, acute, 13-2 in. long, when full grown up to 9 in. long by 1} in. wide. 
Scapes erect, 1-flowered, 2}-3 in. long; bracts oblong, rather acute, convolute, 
%-1 in. long; pedicels 3-3 in. long. Flowers showy, 44-4} in. wide, lilac or 
rosy-lilac, with a whitish lip which is blotched with pale brown, and is 
ornamented with yellow keels. Sepals spreading, lanceolate, acute or almost 
apiculate, 43-54 in. long, the lateral pairs somewhat recurved. Petals narrowly 
falcate-lanceolate, acute, 2 in. long, Lip convolute, wide orbicular-obovate 
when spread out, markedly fimbriate, 2 in. long, 1} in. across; disk 2-lamellate, 
. care undulate, extending nearly to the tip of the lip. Colwmn clavate, 
in. long. 
Tas. 8729,—Fig. 1, column ; 2, anther-cap ; 3, pollinia :—all enlarged. 
