COELOGYJ^E. 



ORCHIDES. 237 



56. COELOGYNE CLYPEATA. Huc ; Pholidcta clypeata Lindl. Paxt. L p. 12. 

 Flowers resemble those of P. imbricata, but stand in a spike not 



more than 3 inches long. The column is very like a 3 lobed petal 

 bordered wilh brown, and gives theflower the appearance of having two 

 oppositft lips. Pseudobulbs about 2 inches long, with a dark green leaf. 

 Borneo. — J. H. S. V. 37. 



57. COELOGYNE VENTRICOSA Pliolidota venlricosa Lindl. Chelonanthera ventricosa Bl. 



58. COELOGYNE GIBBOSA. Pholidota gibbosa Lindl. Chelonanthera gibbosa Bl. — De 

 Vriese Illustrat. t. I. f. 1. et tab. XL f. 62. 



59. COELOGY.NE CO.NCHOIDEA. Huc: Pholidota conchoidea Lindl. B. Reg. XXVL 1840. 

 Misc. 198. 



Spica pendiila disticha imbricata, bracteis oblongis concavis apicu- 

 latis, sepalis lateralibus carina limbo aequali, epichilio 3 lobo laciniis 

 lateralibus rotundatis, intermedio obsoleto, hypochilio utrinque in lobum 

 ascendentem producto basi inlus lineis 3 elevatis distantibus. 



Manilla. Cuming. Knypersley. Very like P, imbricata, but its flowers are nearly 

 iwice as large , and the keels of the lateral flowers are so deep and concave , as to 

 give the lower side of the flower the appearance of a bivalve shell, 



60. COELOGYNE PHOLAS. Huc : P/io/idafa P/io/as Rchb. fil. — „Pholidota chinensis Lmdl. 

 in Journ. Hort. Soc. II. 308. Misc, 16. 1847." Rchb. fll. in Bonpl. IL 250. 



Pseudobulbi bipollicares oblongo tetragohi. Folia post anthesin prope 

 semipedalia a basi lineari teretiuscula oblonga acuta trinervia anthesi 

 abhuc valde tenuia margine undulata gemina. Pedunculus curvatus 

 bracteis aequidistantibus cymbiformibus acutis scariosis. Flos illi Pho- 

 lidotae imbricatae duplo major. Sepala oblonga acuta dorso carinata. 

 Tepala linearia acuta. Labellum basi saccatum; trilobum; lobi laterales 

 semiovati, lobus medius ovatus acutus. Gynostemium depresso anceps 

 utrinque alatum, androclinii limbo erecto supra androclinium more Coe- 

 logynis; rostelli processus obtuse triangulus. limbus inferior foveae 

 obtuse triangulae productus. Anthera obtuse triangula more generis 

 quadrivalvis, 



Hongkong. Hance ! Seemann ! 



Sect. CHINENSES. Columna anguste alata. Labellum ligulatum. 



61. COELOGYNE CHINENSIS. Huc: Pholidota chinensis Lindl. Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. 

 VII. p. 34.: Abundant on rocks , Victoria Peak , and olhBr places. — Porro : Lindl 

 Journ, Hor. Soc. II. 308.: ,,Coelogyne species wilh yellow flowers, from mounlain 

 side , Hongkong. This specios has long been known from Chinese drawings, in which 

 it is represented as bearing yellow flowers, with as they are pale greenish white, 

 changing to white tinged wilh cinnamon. — Flowers in drooping racemes , not more 

 ihan 2 — 3 inches long; opening earlicst at the point of the raceme insiead of the 

 base." 



Caespitosa rhizomate brevi, pseudobulbis obtuse tetragonis ovatis 

 rugosis 1—2 phyllis, foliis oblongis undulatis acuminatis trinerviis, 

 racemis brevibus recurvis , bracteis cucullatis membranaceis obtusis 

 persistentibus, floribus centrifugis, sepalis ovatis, petalis linearibus, 

 iabello oblongo acuto basi concavo laevi apice refracto et quasi bilobo. 



62. COELOGYNE C.ARNEA. Huc: Pholidota carnea Lindl, Crinonia carnea Bl. 



63. COELOGYNE RECUHVA. Huc : Pholidota recurva Lindl. 



Obs. Forsan hic inserenda : Pholidota membranacea: Tejsm. et Binnendyk, Nalurh. 

 Tijdsch. vor Nederlandsch Ind, Deel V, 1853. p. 487 sq. 



Pseiidobulbis oblongo fusiformibus , foliis lanceolatis subplicatis, spi- 



