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*C(ELOGYNE Wallichiana. 



Wallich's Coelogyne. 



GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 

 Nat. Ord. Orchidace.^, § Malaxide^. 

 CCELOGYNE. Botanical Register, vol. U.fol. 868. 



C. Wallichiana; pseudobulbis ampuUaceis vaginisque duris tuberculatis, 

 pedunculis radicalibus unifloris basi vaginatis, labelli trilobi basi saccati 

 lobis lateralibus integerrimis cum intermedio denticulate crispo apice 

 truncato iutegerrimo plicato apiculato confluentibus, disci cristis 4-5 in- 

 completis denticulatis, col umna apice dentata. 



C. Wallichiaua, Gen. Sr Sp. Orch. p. 43. Wall. Plant. As. rar. 1. 46. t. 54. 

 Bot.Reg. 1838. misc. no. 157. 



This beautiful little plant, is, according to Dr. Wallich, a 

 native of the lofty range of mountains which confine Bengal 

 towards the district of Sylhet, in an easterly and northerly 

 direction, inhabiting rocks and the trunks of trees among 

 moss. It is not mentioned by Dr. lloyle, but that distin- 

 guished traveller found a nearly allied species, C. pra^cox, 

 ornamenting with its large richly coloured flowers the 

 branches of oaks on Lundour, at '^,500 feet of elevation, in 

 80° N. lat. ; but only during the moisture of the rainy 

 season. (Illustrations of the Botany of the Himalayas, 

 p. 364.) 



The figure now given was taken from specimens commu- 

 nicated by order of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, 

 from Chatsworth, to which place it had been brought by 

 Mr. John Gibson, as has been already stated in the miscel- 

 laneous matter of this work for 1838, No. 157- Other flowers 

 have been sent me by Mr. Bateman, with the following note. 



*' This beautiful plant I owe to the liberality of the Duke 

 of Devonshire. It is now (Oct. 1838) flowering with me in 



* So named from kolKoq liollow, and yuvjj, used in the sense of stigma; 

 in allusion to the form of that organ. 



