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arises the flower scape, whicla is about a span high, clothed 

 with large ovate involute brownish scales, and surmounted 

 by a cylindrical raceme, nine or ten inches long, crowded with 

 rather small bright rosy red flowers in the axils of long narrow 

 brownish bracts. The concave fleshy sepals are oblong-acute, 

 corrugated externally, deep rosy red, the oblong-ovate petals, 

 as long as the sepals, are blush white, and the reflexed oblong- 

 acute lip is white, continued below into a two-lobed blunt spur. 

 It blooms in August, and with its long cylindrical flower 

 spikes is very efiective. — Mexico. 

 Fig.— Bot. Mag., t. 4712. 



CCELOGTNE, Lindley. 

 {Tribe Epidendreffi, subtribe Ccelogyneas.) 

 There are numerous species of Ccelogijne, many of them 

 very beautiful, the colour of the flowers being of a most 

 delicate hue, and often richly marked ; whilst other kinds 

 are inconspicuous and not worth growing. They are pseu- 

 dobulbous and evergreen plants, the bulbs from one to six 

 inches high, two-leaved, the flowers being generally pro- 

 duced with the young growth, and the leaves being perfected 

 when the flowering is over. The lip is sessile, the base 

 concave, and folded over the elongated apodous column. The 

 flowers of some are very large, measuring as much as three 

 inches across. Some of our botanists include in this genus 

 the group Pleione, which we have kept distinct. About fifty 

 species are known, inhabiting India, the Malayan Archipelago, 

 and Southern China. 



Cultxire. — These plants, with the exception of C. Mas- 

 sangeana, which does best in a basket on account of the 

 drooping character of its spikes, do best grown in pots, with 

 peat and moss. Some of them will do on blocks, but pot or 

 basket culture is to be preferred. They require good drainage, 

 and an abundance of water at their roots in their growing 

 season. Some are best grown in the East Indian house, others 



