Tas. 8582, 
COELOGYNE BRACHYPTERA. 
Burma. 
ORCHIDACEAE, Tribe EPIDENDREAE.: | 
CorLocynz, Lindl.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 518. 
Coelogyne brachyptera, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1881, vol. xvi. p. 6; 
Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. v. p. 842; Pfitz. in Engl. Pflanzenr.—Orch..- 
Coelog. p. 78; species C. Parishit, Hook. f. quam maxime affinis, sed labelli 
disco aurantiaco nee dense papilloso differt. 
Herba epiphytica, Pseudobulbi elongati, subtetragoni, basi paullo incrassati, 
9-15 cm. longi, basi vaginis ovato-spathaceis tecti, apice diphylli. Folia 
elliptico-lanceolata, subacuta, plicata, 12-15 cm. longa. Scapi terminales, 
erecti, basi vaginis lanceolatis imbricatis obtecti, 15-18 cm. longi; racemi 
circiter 7-flori. Bracteae lanceolatae, acutae, concavae, 2°5-3 cm. longae, 
Pedicelli 2-2°5 cm. longi, persistentes. Flores speciosi, flavo-virides, 
labelli disco aurantiaco. Sepala patentia; posticum ovato-lanceolatum, 
subacutum, 3-3°5 cm. longum; lateralia oblongo-lanceolata, acuta, 3-3-5 
em. longa. Petala oblongo-lanceolata, acuta, 2°5-3 cm. longa. Labellum 
— trilobum, circiter 2°5 cm. longum ; lobi laterales suborbiculares, undulati ; 
lobus intermedius orbicularis, undulatus, 1°5 cm. latus; discus graciliter 
tricarinatus, carinis flexuosis et prope apicem paullo verrucosis. Colwmna 
clavata, incurva, alata, 1°5 cm. longa.—C. Parishit var. brachyptera, 
Pfitz. in Engl. Pflanzenr.—Orch.-Coelog. p. 78.—R. A. Ronre, 
The orchid here figured has long been a source of 
perplexity to students of its natural’family. It was 
described as long ago as 1881 from material sent to the 
late Professor Reichenbach by Messrs. Hugh Low and 
Company, taken from a plant which the firm had 
imported from Burma. The author of the species 
C. brachyptera expressed the opinion that it was allied to 
C’. lentiginosa, Lindl., to which he might have referred it 
but for the elongated, tetragonal pseudobulbs. From 
1881 onwards the species was lost sight of. It was 
enumerated by Sir J. D. Hooker among the orchids of 
India, but only as a doubtful species, with the remark 
that it might possibly be the same thing as C. Parishii, 
Hook. ; perhaps this suggestion may have been based on 
the very distinctive habit of these two plants. Professor 
Pfitzer has also found some difficulty in dealing with the _ 
species which he has enumerated in one place as a dis- 
NovVEMBER, 1914. 
