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the well-known CoeJogyne cn'stata, wliich had been discovered by 

 Dr. Wallich, in Nepal, the year before. The name is derived from 

 KoiXoQ (koilos), "^hollow," and yvin] (gune), "a female/' in reference 

 to the depression of the stigma. 



Cultural Note. — The compost used for the true Coelogyues is the usual 

 mixture of fibrous peat and chopped sphagnum in equal proportions. 

 The species belonging to the sub-section Erectte are best grown in jjots 

 with efficient draiuage ; those belonging to the sub-section Flaccidce, 

 on account of their long pendulous scapes are best placed in teak 

 baskets or shallow pans that can be suspended near the roof-glass of 

 the house in which they are cultivated. The re-potting of the plants 

 should be performed early in the year when they begin to emit new 

 roots. As regards temperature and watering, the geographical station 

 of the species and its climatic conditions aflbrd the safest guide to 

 practice ; thus, those species from elevated localities on the mountain 

 sides, such as Goilogyne harhata, C. cn'stata, C. ''lata, C. Gardnerlana, 

 etc., require a lower average temperature, such as is maintained in the 

 Cattleya house, than those from the hot damp lowlands in the equatorial 

 zone as C asperata, C. Cumiiigii, C. Dayaiia, C. pandurata, etc., Avhich 

 should be grown in the East Indian house, but always in partial shade. 

 The supply of water also should be regulated according to the same 

 conditions and the season of the year, taking care that the compost is, 

 at no time, allowed to get quite dry. For the temperature and rain- 

 fall of the equatorial zone and Indo-Malayan region in general, the 

 reader should refer to the notes on the subject imder Dendrobium. 



Coelogyne asperata. 



Pseudo-bulbs ovate-oblong, angulate, 5 — 6 or more inches long. Leaves 

 lanceolate, acute, 20 — 30 inches long. Racemes pendulous, 12 — 15 inches 

 long, issuing from a sheath conqDosed of 6 — 8 distichous and alternate, 

 imbricating leafy bracts, 7 — 10 flowered. Flowers '1\ — 3 inches across; 

 sepals lanceolate, keeled; petals similar but narrower, both sepals and 

 petals of a uniform cream-white ; lip three-lobed, the side lobes oblono-- 

 obtuse, white, streaked with red-brown on the inner side; the inter- 

 mediate lobe sub-rotund, crisped at the margin ; disk with 2 — 3 unequal 

 warty ridges, orange-red with a central raised line betAveen them that 

 is prolonged to the base, the marginal area pale yellow streaked with 

 red-brown. Column clavate, triquetral, pale straw-yellow with a rounded 

 auricle on each side of the rostellum. 



Ccelogyne asperata, Lindl. in Jour. Hoit. Soc. Lond. IV. p. 221 (1849). Id. Fol. 

 Orch. Ccelog. No. 6. Linden's Fesc. t. 8. Williams' Orch. Alb. VII. t. 311. c' 

 Lowii, Paxt. Mcuj. Bot. XVI. p. 225 (1850). 



Introduced from Sarawak, in North Borneo,, in 1849, by Messrs. 



Low and Co., whence the species became associated with the name 



