40 CCELOGYNE. 



years later it was detected by Sir J. D, Hooker in the Sikkim 

 Himalayas, on rocks in valleys at 5,000 feet elevation, and shortly 

 afterwards by the same eminent botanist, in company with Dr. 

 Thomson, near the summits of the Khasia Hills. The flowers vary 

 in size and colour ; the form figured in the Botanical Magazine* had 

 ochre-yellow flowers of a larger size than those described above, 

 for which we were indebted to the Koyal Gardens at Kew, where 

 the species has long been in cultivation. Another plant in the Kew 

 collection bears flowers with a deeper tinge of rose and the brown 

 of the lip deeper and spread over a larger area. The narrow linear 

 petals of this species bring it under Liudley's sub-section Filiferoe, 

 its nearest allies being C. fimhriata and G. o calls ; the specific name, 

 fuliginosa, " sooty," refers to the dusky front lobe of the lip. 



0. fuscescens. 



Pseudo-bulbs sub-cylindric, 3 — 4 inches long. Leaves oval-oblong, 

 tapering at both ends, 7 — 10 inches long. Racemes nodding, shorter 

 than the leaves, 5 — 7 flowered. Flowers not fully expanding, 2 — 2| 

 inches across vertically, of transparent texture, and of a pale orange- 

 red colour ; dorsal sepal oblong, acute, keeled behind, arching over the 

 column ; lateral sepals lanceolate, acute, and also keeled ; petals linear ; 

 lip oblong, entire, the lateral margins incurved and bordered with red 

 on the inner side, the apical half reflexed, the basal half traversed by 

 three red raised plates which contract to thin converging lines towards 

 the apex. Column clavate, arched. 



Ccelogyne fuscescens, Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orcli. p. 41 (1831). Id. Fol. Orch. 

 Ccelog. No. 26. Gard. Chion. III. s. 3 (1888), p. 168. Rolte in Gard. Chron. III. 

 s. 3 (1888), p. 168. 



var. — brunnea. 



Lip obscurely lobed, the lateral lobes spotted and margined with brown 

 on the inner side; the apical lob echestnut-brown, paler towards the 

 margin, the raised plates deep orange-red. 



C. fuscescens brunnea, Lindl. I'd. Orch. Ccelog. No. 21. Bot. Mag. t, 5494. C. 

 brunnea, Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 1848, p. 71. C. assamica, Rchb. Xen. Orch. II. 

 p. Ill, t. 134, 7, 8, 9. 



As in the case of most of the species inhabiting the rich Coelogyne 



districts in Northern India, Coelogyne fuscescens was also one of the 



discoveries of Dr. Wallich^ who detected it during his exploration of 



" The figure in the Botanical Magazine represents the inflorescence with three expanded 

 flowers, two of which were probably added by tlie artist, as we have no evidence of more than 

 one flower being expanded at one time iu this species. 



