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consisting of six white erect keels with brown fringes on the anterior 

 side, two of which are prolonged to the base of the lip. Column 

 clavate, slender, arched.* 



Ccelosyne Dayana, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. XXI. (1884), p. 826. Williams' Orch. 

 Alb. VI. 1. 247. 



Introduced by us from North Borneo, through Curtis, and dedi- 

 cated by Professor Reichenbach, at our request, to the late Mr. 

 John Day, of Totteuhara. It flowered for the first time in this 

 country at our Chelsea nursery in June^ 1884. As a species it is 

 comparable with Coelogyne Massangeana as regards its long pendulous 

 racemes ; but in the colour of its flowers, and especially in its 

 vegetative organs, it is thoroughly distinct. In its native country 

 it invariably grows upon the branches of large trees in the hot 

 lowlands near the coast, and on the banks of streams under the same 

 conditions as the closely allied species G. asperata and C. pandurata. 



0. elata. 



Ehizome stout, clothed with pale brown scales. Pseudo-bulbs placed 

 at intervals of about 2 inches along the rhizome, ovoid, compressed and 

 bluntly angulate, 3 — 4 inches long. Leaves stalked, ensiform, acute, 

 12 — 18 inches long. Scapes erect, a foot high, with a number of hard, 

 imbricated, brown bracts immediately below the 7 — 9 flowered raceme, f 

 Flowers on short white pedicels, cream-white ; sepals broadly lanceolate ; 

 petals linear oblong- lip obovate, obscurely three-lobed, Avhite with an 

 orange-yellow blotch, below which are two waved and crisped crests 

 dotted at the edge with red. Column narrowly winged. 



Ccelogyne elata, Lindl. Gen. et. Sp. Orch. p. 40 (1831). Id. Bot. Reg. 1839, 



misc. No. 151. Fol. Orch. Ccelog. No. 22. Bot. Mag. t. 5001. 



First detected by Dr. Wallich in Nepal, and introduced by him 

 to the garden of the Horticultural Society at Chiswick, where it 

 flowered for the first tirce in 18o9. It was subsequently found by 

 Sir J. D. Hooker m Sikkim, at 4,000 — 6,000 feet elevation, and 

 by other explorers in other localities. Still later it was observed 

 by Mr. H. J. Elwes, "growing abundantly at 8,000—9,000 feet 

 elevation, on the slopes of Tongloo, near Darjeeling; in one case 

 a fine old yew tree was covered with it." J The flowers, which 

 usually appear in February and March, are among the prettiest of 

 the genus, but the rambling habit of the plant renders it a some- 

 what awkward subject for cultivation. 



* For woodcut of flower of Ccelogyne Dayana, see C. Massangeana, infra. 



t As in Coilogync barhata and thence grouped with it under the sub-section ProUfer<K, 



X Gard. Chron. XIX. (1883), p. 469. 



