CCELOGYNE. 4 1 



the Nepalese Himalayas in 1827 — 8. Twenty yeai's later it was 

 gathered by Sir J. D. Hooker in Sikkim, and shortly afterwards on 

 the Khasia Hills at 3,000 feet elevation. We find no record of the 

 first introduction of the species into British gardens ; it was in culti- 

 vation at the time Dr. Lindley compiled the monograph of the genus 

 in his Folia Orchidacea, and it has been occasionally imported since, 

 specimens for identification having been received by us from various 

 correspondents. 



The variety hrunnea, which is one of the handsomest of Coelogynes, 

 is stated to have been in cultivation at Syon House in 1844, and 

 four years later Dr. Lindley mentions (Gard. Chron. 1848, p. 7) it 

 as being in other collections, but afterwards became lost. It was re- 

 introduced by Messrs. Low and Co., about the year 1864, from 

 Moulmein, through the Rev. C. Parish. 



0. G-ardneriana. 



Pseutlo-bulljs cylindric-couical, 5 — 6 inches long, angulate when old. 

 Leaves oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 15 — 20 inches long, including the rather 

 long petiole. Racemes shorter than the leaves, nodding, many flowered. 

 Flowers close-set, not expanding, white with a citron-yellow stain on 

 the lip ; the short pedicels and ovaries sheathed by broad, inflated, 

 sienna-brown bracts ; sepals oblong, keeled, saccate at the base ; petals 

 narrower, linear-ligulate ; lip narrowly oblong, bi-saccate at the base, 

 three-lobed, the side lobes rotund in front, the intermediate lobe re- 

 flexed, bi-dentate at the tip, and traversed by three elevated lines, of 

 which the outer two are wavy towards the apex. 



Ccelogyne Gardneriana, Lindl. in Wallich's PI. asiat. rar. 1. 33. Id. Gen. et 



Sp. Orch. p. 41 (1831). Id. Fol. Orch. Coelog. No. 1 (1854). Paxt. Mag. Bot. VI. 



p. 73 (1839). Williams' Orch. Alb. IV. t. 153. 



Originally discovered by Dr. Wallich, and subsequently detected by 

 Griffith and by Sir J. D. Hooker and Dr. Thomson on the Khasia Hills, 

 whence it was introduced to Chatsworth in 1837, by Gibson, who 

 found it " growing upon trees in moist shady woods, and especially 

 in immediate proximity to a waterfall, by which it is constantly 

 bedewed with spray." It flowered for the first time at Chatsworth, 

 in December, 1838, the season in which it usually sends forth its 

 graceful pendulous racemes of milk-white flowers in the glass- 

 houses of Europe. It seems to have been subsequently lost, for 

 no record of its being in cultivation occurred till about the year 

 1874, when the late Mr. Freeman collected it with Vanda cceriilea 

 and other orchids from the Khasia Hills. The gibbous, almost 



