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CCRLOGYNE. 



of the firm. Tt is widely distributed over the Malay Archipelago 

 from Sumatra to New Guinea, growing in the hot damp lowlands 

 near the coast, and in proximity to streams, attached chiefly to the 

 overhanging branches of large trees, and always in partial shade. 

 It is one of the commonest epiphytes yet met with on the coast 

 of eastern New Guinea. 



0. barbata. 



Pseudo-bulbs sub-pyriforni, bluntly angulate, 1| — 2 inches long. Leaves 

 broadly lanceolate, 12 — 18 inches long, narrowed below into a short 

 jietiole. Peduncles erect, nearly as long as the leaves, terminating in a 

 6 — 9 flowered raceme, below which are a number of hard imbricating 



Ccelogyne barbata. 



scaly bracts. Flowers 2| — 3 inches in diameter ; sepals and petals white, 



the former ovate-oblong, acute, the latter linear lanceolate ; lip inflated at 



the base, three-lobed, the side lobes oblong with the anterior margin 



fimbriate, white externally, pale brown on the inner side ; middle lobe 



oblong, reflexed, fimbriate, blackish brown with three raised lines fringed 



Avith shaggy blackish hairs. Column Avhite. 



Ccelogyne barbata, Griffith Notula; ad Plant, asiat. III. t. 291 (1851). Lindl. 

 Fol. Orch. Ccelog. No. 21 (1854). Williams' Orch. Alb. Ill, t. 143. 



