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duous bracts os long as llie peduncle. Each flower is aboui four inches ncross if 

 fuUy expanded , with pale grcen sepals and petals, and a singularly warted lip, mar- 

 ked with deep, broad, black veins and stains , upon a grecnish yellow ground. The^ 

 crests are two deep doublewarted lines on each side of a three -ribbed central disk ' 

 these crests converge towards the middle of tlie lip , where they lose themselves in 

 a field of pallid , rugged , irregularly situnted, often two - lobed warts. The coluran 

 is green . slighlly expanded into thin rounded edges. The lip, although really oblong, 

 yet, in consequence of ihe manner in which tlic sides are bent down , has much the 

 form of a violin. A memorandum in ihe Hookerian herbarium states the flowers to 

 ..erait a beautiful parfume". 

 10. COELOGV.XE APICUL.ATA Rchb. fil. Huc Panisea apiciilata Lindl. Fol. L n. 3.: 



P. folio angusle ovali petiolato racemo nutante bifloro niulto longioro, 

 bracteis linearibus canaliculalis ovario triplero brevioribus, sepalo dor- 

 sali reflexo, labello oblongo retuso apiculato ungue sigmoideo saccalo. 

 Wild in Moulmein , at 5000 feet. T. Lobb, (v s. sp.). — ..Flowers greenish brown," 

 rather smaller ihan in the next. 



Obs. Nonne hic inserenda est hacc sequens species ? 

 IL COELOGYNE CROOCKEWITII Teissra. et Binnendyk Naturk. Tijdch. voor Nederl. 

 Ind. Decemb. V. 1853 : bulbis tetragonis ovatis monophyllis , foliis lato - lanceolatis 

 coriaceis glabris , racemi bracteis deciduis, phyllis perigonii externis ovatis con- 

 cavis carinatis, interioribus linearibus reflexis , labelli trilobi loho medio obovato bi- 

 fido undulato , lateralibus parvis acuiis reflexis intus lincis elevatis, columna dilataia 

 apice crenulaia. Salak. 



Obs. Icon, quam habeo, potius ,,PhoIidoiam" refert. 



2. Erectae. 

 The species grouped under this section reserable each other nearly, and perhaps are 

 too much subdivided. No evidencc , however , exists in Europe to show ihe naiure of 

 iheir variatiou , if any. They are only known from the Filiferous race by their petals 

 noi being extremely narrow;"in general the flowers of the latter are aImos"t solitary. 



12. COELOGYNE THUNIANA Rchb. fil. in Otto et Dittrich Allg. Gartz. 1855. pag. 145 : 

 nulli affinis : uniflora , pseudobulbis lagenaeformibus rugoso sulcatis impressisve con- 

 coloribus. foliis synanlliiis lineari ligulatis , nervo dorsali carinatis, labello ligulatoi 

 obovato , ante basin utrinque falcula antrorsa trifldo , carinis gerainis a basi in di- 

 scum papula interjecta, gynostemio uirinque juxta foveam unideniato (tamen Coelogyne). 



13. COELOGYNE TRINERVIS Lindl. LO. , n. 11. Fol. L n. 8.: 



C. pseudobiilbis ovatis in rhizoma crassum squamosum. foliis longis 

 3-nervibus lanceolatis plicalis in petiolum iongum angustatis, racemo 

 brevi slricto vagina imbricata, bracteis deciduis, petalis lineari-lanceo- 

 latis, labelli trilobi lobis rotundatis: intermedio subrotundo undulato lineis 

 Iribus flexuosis elevatis aequalibus e basi labelli ortis. 



Wild in Tavoy , on the Tenasserim Coast. Wallich , (v. v. sp). — A very prelty spe- 

 cies. Leaves fifteen to sixteen inches long, straight and narrow. Raceme not more 

 than flve inches high , wiih ahout five flowers , the colour of which is unknown. 



14. COELOGYNE DREVISCAPA Lindi. FoL l. n. 9. : 



C. pseudobulbis ovatis corrugatis monophyllis, foliis angusle lanceo- 

 latis coriaceis petiolatis, scapis paucifloris strictis basi inibricatim squa- 

 matis, bracteis lalis oblongis concavis porsislentibus, labolli lobis late- 

 ralibus obtusis inlermedio duplo majore subrolundck apiculato venis 2 

 flexuosis apice incrassatis inter»nedia filiformi, columna apicc tantnni 

 denticulata. 



C. angustifolia. Wight , ic. t. Ifi41; ncc A. R. 

 Wild in Ceylon Walker ; Nilgherries, cfn branches of trees in cluraps of forest near 

 Ncddawullim Wight (v. s. sp. in hb. Hooker and Wighi.) — This very dislinct spe- 



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