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acuminate, about 6 inches long, ^^etiolate, leathery, deep green. Peduncles 

 erect, shorter than the leaves, with about six hard imbricating distichous 

 scales below the 5 — 7 flowered raceme. Flowers small, primrose-yellow, 

 the lamellae of the lip bright yellow ; sepals ovate ; petals linear ; side 

 lobes of lip oblong-obtuse, intermediate lobe oblong, reflexed ; lamellfe 

 two, large for the size of the flower. Column semi-terete, wingless. 

 Coelogyne flavida, Hook. f. ex. Lindl. Fol. Orch. Coelog. No. 24 (1854). 

 Discovered by Thomas Lobb on the Khasia Hills, and afterwards 

 by Cathcart on the Sikkim Himalayas. Our description was taken 

 from a plant recently received at Mentmore from Darjeeling. The 

 presence of the hard imbricating scales below the raceme indicates 

 its aflSnity to Goelogijne barbata and G. elata, to both of which it 

 is far inferior in a horticultural sense. 



0. Foerstermanni.* 



" Khizome as thick as a condor's quill, covered with sepia-brown 

 sheaths. Pseudo-bulbs cylindrate-fusiform, ribbed. Leaves oblong, acute, 

 petiolate, 15 — 18 inches long. Peduncles longer than the leaves, sheathed 

 at the base by numerous bracts, many flowered ; floral bracts linear, 

 apiculate, nearly equal to the stalked ovary. Flowers equal in size to 

 those of Coelogyne Cumingii ; sepals and petals lanceolate, white, the 

 sepals keeled behind ; lip white with a yellow-brown stain on the disc, 

 three-lobed, the side lobes rounded, the intermediate lobe elliptic, acute, 

 with three denticulate, longitudinal keels." — Rchb, f. in Gard. Chron. 

 I. s. 3 (1887), p. 798. 

 This is said to be of Sundaic (?) origin, and was introduced by 

 Messrs. Sander and Co. through their collector Foerstermann. 



0. fuliginosa. 



Rhizome clothed with brown imbricating scales. Pseudo-bulbs sub- 

 cylindric, angulate, 2 — 3 inches long, somewhat distantly placed on the 

 rhizome. Leaves broadly lanceolate, acute, 5 — 7 inches long. Racemes 

 shorter than the leaves, 2 — 3 flowered. Flowers, of which only one is 

 expanded at one time, 2 inches across ; sepals and petals light brownish 

 white with a faint rosy tint, the former oval-oblong, the latter linear, 

 reflexed ; lip oblong, three-lobed, the side lobes oblong, erect, coloured 

 like the sepals and petals, the middle lobe orbicular-oblong, fringed 

 at the margin, deep red-brown, and furnished with two crisped, deep 

 brown raised lines with a shallower one between them. Column clavate, 

 slender, bent. 



Coelogyne fuliginosa, Lindl. in Loddiges' Catalogue. Bot. Mag. t. 4440 (1849). 

 Lindl. Fol. Orch. Ccelog. No, 31 (1854). 



Introduced by Loddiges from Northern India, in 18o8. Ten 



* Not seen by us. 



