COELOCYKE. 



ORGHIDES. 229 



have none of ihe loose corymbose arrangemeni of C. corymbosa , nor do ihey 

 proceed from, lax sheaths of imbricated scales. The flgure in Bot. Mag. is from 

 a starvcd specimen. 



24. COELOGYNE CUMINGII Lindl. Lindley , in Bot. Reg. , 1840, misc. 178, 1841, t. 29. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 4645. Fol. L n. 19. : 



C. pseudobulbis ovatis, foliis geminis lanceolatis 5-nerviis utrinque 

 acuminatis racemo paucifloro longioribus, scapo basi nudo, bracteis 

 convolulis floribus loneioribus, petalis lineari-lanceolatis, labolli trilobi 

 lobis lateralibus rolundatis intermedio ovato acuto revoluto basi crispo, 

 lamellis 3 crispis continuis adjeclis 2 abbreviatis prope apicem. 



Wild in Singapore Cuming , (v. v. c.) — Flowers handsorae, snow-white , except the 

 middie of the lip . which is yellowish . with-orange tips to the crested lamellae. Closely 

 allied lo C. trinervis , which is however readily kuown by its very long narrow leaves, 

 its shorter bracts, smaller flowers , and much shorter middle lobe to the lip. which 

 also appears to want the outlying processes on either side of the ridges. — Huc: Van 

 Houite VIIL 764. Lem. Jard. fleur. t. 337. 



25. COELOGYNE CRISTATA Lindl. Lindley. Coll. Bot. , p. 33. LO. , n 2. Dot. Reg., 

 1841. t. 57. Paxton's Fl. Gard. . ic. xyl.. n. 312 Fol. L n. 20.: 



C. pseudobulbis oblongis demum angulatis, rhizomate crasso squa- 

 moso, foliis lineari-lanceolatis, racemo erecto 3 — 5-floro foliis breviore 

 basi squamis corneis vaginato, bracteis oblongis divaricatis persistenli- 

 bus. petalis oblongo-lanceolnlis undulatis, labelli trilobi crista triplici 

 interrupta: infima brevi 5-lamellata intermedia multifida pectinatasuprema 

 bilamellata denticulata, lobo medio rolundafo parvo plano obtuse sub- 

 tridentato. 



Cymbidium speciosissimum. Don prodr. nep. 35. 

 Wild in Nepal , Sylhet , Kamaon Wallich ; at Champawat at 5500 feel Strachey and 

 Winterboitom ; Darjeeling Griffiih ; Sikkim, atthe elevation of 5— 8000 feet J. D. Hooker 

 (v. v. c. et s. sp.) — One of the most striking of the white-flowered Indian Orchids- 

 It forms oblong or ovate two-leaved pseudobulbs upon a hard scaly rhizome. The 

 leaves are lanceolate , tough and flaccid , with some waviness at the edge. The flowers 

 appear in imbricaied racemes , in the beginning concealed by brown dry spathes, 

 which afterwards sheathe the ovary and its stalk. When expanded they are each 

 fully four inches in diameter. The sepais and petals are white, lanceolate, and 

 acnminate. The lip . also white , is concave , and three-lobed ; ihe lateral lobes half- 

 oblong , truncaie at ihe upper end , and somewhat wider than the transverse roundish 

 middle lobe. Along the middlo run flve parallel veins covered by delicate yellow 

 glandular fringes ; at the base of each of ihe three central is a wavy plate , and ai 

 ihe upper end of ihc iwo which stand on each side tlie middle vein is another sohd 

 plate lerminating abruplly in front and more or less tooihed. 



3. Prolitcrae. 

 All ihe spccies hero collected agree in havirig a number of hard imbricated scales im- 

 mediaiely below the flowers, and not at tlie foot of the scape. They oftcn , pcrhaps 

 always, produce a second scaly sheaih beyond ihe first series of flowers , and out of 

 ihat sheaih arises a sccuud series of flowers. C. barbata disiincily combines Ihis group 

 with ilie last , through C. crislata. 



26. COELOGYNE BAHBATA Lindl. GrilOth , Itin. Not. . p. 72; Notul., p. 280; ic. t. 291, 

 flg. 2. Fol. L n. 21.: 



C. pseudol)ulbis subampullaceis, foliis oblongo-Ianceolalis longc petio- 

 latis valdii coriaceis undulalis, scapo stiicto rigido apicesquamis coriaceis 

 arcte imbricato, racemo subflexuoso sessili, bracteis maximis cucullalis 

 cito deciduis, sepalis oblongis, petalis lanceolatis, labello trilobo basi 

 saccato margine anteriore costisque tribus ciliato-timbriatis. 



Wild in Bootan Grifflth ; Khasia, near Mamloo Id. , Lobb. . 4—5000 fcet, J. D. Hooker 



