224 ORCHIDES. 



COELOGYNE. 



lis, undiilalis, petiolatis patentibus, racemo pendulo glabro mnltifloro, 

 br.icleis ..pnrvis fnscis acutissimis" deciduis. petalis lineari lanceolatis, 

 sepalis panlo lalioribus carinatis, labello ovato oblongo trilobo lamellis 

 hypochilii 3, epichilii 4-fimbriatis. 



Tlie flowers appear in a long pendulous raceme , nol unlike ihat of Cymbidium pen- 

 dulum . gieenish yellow with a white lip streaked wih brown. The latter has a taper 

 pointed middle lobe and is crested with perpendicular fringed plates. The pseudo- 

 bulbs are six inches long. 



6. COELOGYNE LENTIGINOSA Lindl. Folia I. n. 4. 



C. racemo paucifloro, bracteis linearibus convolutis persistentibus. 

 petahs Imearibus, labello obovato plano lineis duabus elevalis conlinuis 

 lobis lateralibus rotundatis intermedio subrotundo unguiculalo duplo 

 latiore emarginato. 



Wild in Monlmein Lobb , (v. v. c. comm. dom. Veitch.). — I only know this very di- 

 stinct species from a fragment communicated by Messrs. Veitch. The flowers are 

 Ihe size of C. flaccida ; the lip is white flnely freckled withbrown near the base ; the 

 short lateral lobes are bordered with the same colour ; ihe middle lobe is tinted wiih 

 ycllow and is raiher wavy. The two lamellae reach aboui half way up the middle 

 lobe. are slightly curved . and perfectly even. 



7. COELOGYNE TOMENTOSA Folia l. n. 5. : 



C. racemis longissimis laxis pendulis, bracteis magnis longe distan- 

 tibus convolutis, labelli lobo medio ovali lateralibus olDtusis lineis 3 ele- 

 \atis serratis , ovario tomentoso. 



Wild in iropical Asia (place unknown). T. Lobb. n. 187 (v. s. sp. in hb, Hooker). — 

 Of this remarkable plant one specimen exists in Sir Wm. Hooker's herbarium. It 

 consists of a raceme about eighteen inches long. having nineteen or twenty flowers 

 with a downy ovary ; the bracts are broad convoluie bodies fully an inch long. No- 

 thing is knowii of its colour. The sepals are lanceolate and very acute , as are the 

 petals which are shorier as well as narrower. The flowers spread widely and are 

 about two inches or more ia diameler. 



8. COELOGYNE ASPERATA Lindley , in Journ. Hort. Soc. , IV. 221. Folia I. n. 6.: 



C. racemis pendulis dense multifloris subpubescentibus, bracteis sub- 

 rotundo-ovatis concavis duris siccis, sepalis lanceolatis carinatis, petalis 

 anguslioribus conformibus ecarmatis, labelh lobis lateralibus erectis 

 ovalis obtusis intermedio oblongo obtjiso crispo: disco dense verrucoso 

 costis 3 inaequalibus laevibus pone basin. 



C. Lowii Paxton's Mag. Bot., Sept. 1849, p. 225. 

 Wild in Uorneo. Low , (v. v. c). — Flowers full three inches in diameter . in droo- 

 ping racemes a foot long; pale cream colour excepl the lip . which is richly marked 

 with brownish yellow veins springing from a rugged bright orange central ridge. 

 There is no doubt that C. Lowii , above quoted . was this ; but the flgure is a very 

 bad one. — Huc Pescatorea I. 27. 



9. COELOGYNE PANDURATA Lindley , in Gard. Chron.. Dec. 10. 1853. Fol. L n. 7.: 

 C. fohis maximis multinerviis, racemo longo pendulo, bracteis oblon- 



gis cncullalis distantibus persistentibus, petalis sepalisque hneari-oblon- 

 gis, labello basi concavo cordalo-oblongo retnso cis apicem crispo se- 

 taceo-mucronalo (lateribus deflexis pandurato) lobis basilaribus nanis 

 acuminatis disco laevi tricarinato ulrinque crisla alta duplici verruculosa 

 aucto citra cristam copiose verrucoso. 



Wild ia Borneo. Loddiges; common on trees in shady places overhangingwater. Low, 

 (vi V. c. et s. sp. in hb. Hooker). — A very flne species , with leaves and raceme 

 respectively eighieen and twenty inches long. The flowers, which are about two 

 inchcs apart , aro grecn , in a pendent raceme furnished wiih brown cucullate deci- 



