CCELOGYNE. 33 



First discovered by Griffith in Bhotaiij and aftei-wards by Gibson 

 and Thomas Lobb^ on the Khasia Hills, near Mamloo, at 4,000 — 5_,000 

 feet elevation, and also by Sir J. D, Hooker and Dr. Thomson at 

 Churra Punjee. It does not appear to have been introduced alive 

 till 1878—9, when it was imported by Mr. William Bull. With 

 Coelogijne elata and four or five other species, with small greenish 

 flowers that are of no horticultural merit, it forms a sub-section 

 of the genus, characterised by the presence of a number of hard 

 imbricated scales immediately below the raceme, and named by 

 Lindley Proliferre, by reason of " a second scaly sheath, being often 

 (perhaps always) produced beyond the first series of flowers, and 

 out of that sheath arises a second series of flowers.'^ The dusky 

 brown anterior lobe of the lip and the clear white sepals and petals 

 present one of the most remarkable colour contrasts ever seen, even 

 among the Orchideae. G. barhata usually flowers in the late autumn. 



0. corrugata. 



Pseudo-bulbs ovate-conic, 2^ — 3 inches long, angulate and much wrinkled 

 when old. Leaves 6— -12 inches long, the shortei ones elliptic-oblong, 

 sub-acuminate, the longest oblong-lanceolate. Peduncles erect, shorter 

 than the leaves, 3 — 5 flowered. Flowers 2 — 2|- inches across vertically, 

 with a brown oblong-acute bract sheathing each pedicel ; sepals and petals 

 similar and sub-equal, elliptic-oblong, acute, keeled behind, French- 

 white ; lip shorter than the other segments, the side lobes oblong, 

 yellow striped with red on the inner side, the middle lobe ovate, 

 acuminate, white with a yellow disk traversed by three fringed white 

 lamellae that reach to the base of the lip. 



Ccelogyne corrugata, Wight, Icon. pi. ind. or t. 1639 (1852). Lindl. Fol. Orch. 

 Coelog. No. 15 (1853). Bol. Mag. t. 5601. 



A species well distinguished by its curiously wrinkled pseudo-bulbs, 



first gathered by Dr. Wight about the year 1845 on the Neil- 



gherry Hills in the neighbourhood of Courtallum, Southern India, 



flowering in August and September, and where it was subsequently 



found by Thomas Lobb, but who failed to send home living plants. 



It was first cultivated in England in the Royal Gardens at Kew 



in 1863, but it is still very rare in British collections. 



0. corymbosa. 



Pseudo-bulbs ovoid, 1| — 2 inches long, ribbed witli a transverse 

 keel a little above the middle. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, acute, 6 — 8 

 inches long. Racemes from the young growths before the leaves have 



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