44 C(ELOGYNE. 



brown obliquely streaked with yellow on the inner side, the middle lobe 



quadrate with a fleshy verrucose brown and yellow disk, below which 



are three denticulate keels extending to the base of the lip. Column 



tricjuetral, bent. 



Ccelogyne Massaiigeana, Rchb. in Gard. Cliron. X. (1878), p. 684. Fl. Mag. N.s. 

 t. 373. Williams' Orch. Alb. I. t. 29. Bot. Mag. t. 6979. 



This species was first described by Reichenbach in the Gardeners' 



Chronicle for 1878, loc. cit. supra, but it had been in cultivation in 



several French and other continental collections many years prior to 



that date, under the name of Goelogi/ne assamica, a name whose 



origin we have been unable to trace, but which may have been given 



in the belief that it was the species figured and described in 



Reichenbach's Xenia Orchidacea as G. assamica, a totally different 



plant which must be referred to Lindley's G. fuscescens hrimnea. 



Although G. Massangeana is one of the most generally cultivated of 



epiphytal orchids, its native country is virtually unknown ; it is reported 



to be a native of Assam, but the probability is great that it is of 



Malayan origin, like its nearest congeners, G. asperata and G. Dayana. 



It is dedicated to M. Massange de Louvrex, of Baillonville, near 



Marche, in Belgium, an enthusiastic amateur of orchids. It is one of the 



freest growing of Coelogynes, and its long floral racemes, which appear 



at almost all seasons of the year, are developed with unusual rapidity. 



0- ocellata. 



Pseudo-bulbs sub-pyriform, 1| — 3 inches long. Leaves narrowly lanceo- 

 late, acuminate, 7 — 10 inches long, narrowed towards the base into a 

 short channelled petiole. Eacemes erect, shorter than the leaves; 5 or 

 more flowered, the bracts lanceolate acute, reddish brown, sheathing, 

 longer than the ovaries. Flowers 2 inches in diameter ; sepals and petals 

 milk-white, the former oblong, acute, obscurely keeled behind, the latter 

 linear-oblong ; lip oblong, with entire margin three-lobed, white with 

 some oblique orange lines on the inner side of the side lobes, also a 

 yellow spot bordered with red at the apex, and 3 — 4 smaller ones at 

 the base of the middle lobe; disk with three wavy keels that extend 

 to the base of the lip, and a smaller one on each side of them on the 

 middle lobe. Column slender, white bordered with orange. 



Coelogyne ocellata, Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orch. p. 40 (1831). Id. Bot. Reg. 



1839, misc. No. 25. Id. Fol. Orch. Ccelog. No. 18. £oL Mag. t. 3767. C. 



punctulata, Lindl. Collect. Bot. sub. t. 33. 



var.— maxima. 



Plant larger in all its parts ; racemes longer, 6 — 10 flowered. Flowers 

 half as large again as in the type. 



C. ocellata maxima, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. XI, (1879), p. 524. Fl. Mag. n.s. t. 365, 



