42 CCELOGYNE. 



saccate base of the sepals, bi -saccate lip^ and the nearly closed 

 flowers clearly distinguish this from every other species of 

 Coelogyne, and constitute its sectional characters. It is named in 

 compliment to Dr. George Gardner, who, during his travels in 

 Brazil, 183(3 — 41, made known to science for the first time many 

 hundreds of plants, including some of the finest of the Brazilian 

 orchids. Dr. Gardner was afterwards appointed Director of the 

 Botanic Garden at Peradenia, in Ceylon, where he died in 1849 

 at the early age of 37. 



0. gramimfolia. 



Rhizome scaly, the scales glossy blackish brown. Pseudo-bulbs ovoid, 

 angulate, 2 inches long. Leaves linear, exceeding a foot in lengtb, complicate 

 at base, sub-acuminate, leathery, dee^) green. Scapes 4 — 6 inches long, 

 sheathed at the base with hard, imbricating scaly bracts, 2 — 3 flowered. 

 Flowers 2 inches in diameter, on pale orange-red pedicels, the ovaries 

 ribbed and channelled ; sejDals and petals milk-white, the sepals oblong- 

 lanceolate, the lateral two keeled behind ; petals linear-lanceolate ; lip 

 shorter than the other segments, three-lobed, the side lobes oblong, 

 with roundish angles, erect, Avhite obliquely streaked with sepia-brown 

 on the inner side ; intermediate lobe sub-quadrate, reflexed, bright 

 yellow bordered with white on the apical side ; lamellge 3, of which 

 the middle one is the shallowest, all terminating in a blackish brown 

 line in front. Column clavate, arched, pale orange-red. 



Coelogyne graminifolia, Parish and Rchb. in Trans. Linu. Soc. XXX. (1873), p. 

 146. Bot. Mag. t. 7006. Eolfe in Gard. Chron. III. s. 3 (1888), p. 168. 



Discovered by the Rev. C. Parish, in Moulmein, in 1865 — QQ ; it 

 also presumably occurs in Assam, and other districts in north-east 

 India, it having been sent to the Royal Gardens at Kew, in 1887^ 

 from Shillong, on the Khasia Hills. It was, however, in cultivation 

 in British gardens prior to that date, but from what source the 

 plants were derived we find no record. 



O. lentiginosa. 



Pseudo-bulbs placed at intervals of | — 1 inch on a stout scaly rhizome, 

 elliptic-oblong, 2 — 3 inches long, usually four-angled. Leaves oblong- 

 lanceolate, acute, 6 — 8 inches long. Peduncles stoutish, erect, sheathed 

 below with broad, convolute, green scales, loosely racemose above, about 

 five flowered; bracts linear-oblong, exceeding the ovary. Flowers 1 — 1^ 

 inches across ; sepals and petals straw-yeUow, the former elliptic-oblong, 

 keeled behind, the latter linear-oblong; side lobes of lip rotund, white 

 bordered and spotted with red-brown on the inner side, the intermediate 



