COELOGYNE LENTIGINOSA. Native of Burma. 
Pseudobulbs about 3 to 4 inches long, stout and rectangular. Leaves in pairs 6 to 
8 inches long, broad and diminishing to a sharp point. Flower spikes, from base of 
bulb, carry up to half-a-dozen bright yellow blooms from an inch to an inch and 
a half across. The lip has three lobes, the side ones being white with a chocolate 
border and sometimes spotted with light brown, the middle lobe yellow, with a 
large patch of yellowish brown in the centre with a white margin. An attractive 
species, very popular with the Burmese, who are frequently seen wearing a spray 
of the blooms in their hair during late Spring and early Summer, its flowering 
season. 
Coelogyne lentiginosa is found in the hilly country beyond Mandalay. The climate 
in this part of Burma differs greatly from that round Rangoon and Moulmein. 
Instead of the humid wet conditions of lower Burma they have a hot, drier 
climate, and even in the rainy season the average monthly rainfall does not exceed 
six inches. In Winter the nights are quite cold, the temperature falling to as low 
as 40 degrees at a height of 4000 feet, at which elevation this Coelogyne is found. 
The following is the table of temperature and rainfall:— 
Temperature Rainfall Temperature Rainfall 
Month from to Month from to 
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It will be observed from this that the Winter period is not unlike that of our 
Brisbane Winter with its cool nights and pleasant dry days. The Summer range, 
too, is much like Brisbane, and the rainfall average is also like our average Summer 
season, though their Winter is much drier than ours is on the average. Coelogyne 
lentiginosa should, therefore, be given bushhouse treatment in Brisbane and 
the North—but should the Winter be a wet one it should be moved into a cool, 
dry part of a glasshouse. In Sydney, it will probably be desirable to move it into a 
glasshouse during the colder weather, and probably this policy will be wise in the 
colder parts of Queensland. It is worthy of note here that much of the difficulty 
found in growing Burmese orchids in Queensland is due to the fact that the origins 
of the plants have been so loosely stated. 
Burma has an area of 263,000 square miles, and its climate ranges from the frost 
bound regions of the Himalayan slopes to the wet, moist heat of tropical rain 
forest country with all the variations possible in between. It is, therefore, almost 
impossible for anyone, not knowing the location from which a Burmese orchid 
has come, to pick the right conditions for it. I hope that the information I give 
from time to time in the course of these notes will help growers to overcome this 
difficulty. 
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