46 CCELOGYNE. 



year. It was subsequently gathered by l^homas Lobb on the Khasia 

 Hills, and by Sir J. D. Hooker on the Sikkim Himalayas at 7,000 

 feet elevation. The variety maxima was first brought into notice 

 by Mr. B. S. Williams, "of Holloway, in 1879 ; as seen in the 

 collection of Baron Schroeder, at The Dell, it is not only far 

 superior in beauty to the type, but it is one of the most attractive 

 of orchids. Coelogyne ocellata is a variable species; several inter- 

 mediate forms between the type and the variety maxima, as represented 

 by Baron Schroeder's plant, differing only in the size of their flowers, 

 have been observed in cultivation, and besides these there has 

 appeared a variety in which the orange spots on the labellum are 

 absent,* and another in which the spots are sulphur-yellow without 

 the orange border, f 



0. ochracea. 



Pseudo-bulbs ovoid-oblong, four-angled above, 1| — 2|- inches long. 

 Leaves narrowly lanceolate, acute, 6 — 8 inches long, tapering below into a 

 slender foot-stalk. Racemes shorter than the leaves, sheathed below by 

 imbricating scales, 5 — 7 flowered ; bracts lanceolate, longer than the 

 ovaries, reddish brown, deciduous. Flowers nearly 2 inches in 

 diameter, fragrant, milk-white, with some orange-yellow blotches and 

 reddish streaks on the lip ; sepals elliptic-oblong ; petals linear-lanceolate ; 

 lip three-lobed, the side lobes erect, rotund, with denticulate margin 

 in front, the middle lobe ovate-cordate, reflexed ; disk with two 

 toothleted lamellae. Column slender, dilated upwards. 



Ccelogj'ne ocliracea, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1846, t. 69. Id. Fol. Orch. Ccelog. No. 



11. Bot. Mag. t. 4661. 



var.— conferta. 



Pseudo-bulbs, leaves and flowers smaller in all their parts ; in other 

 respects agreeing with the species, except in the shorter - stalked 



ovaries. J 



C. ochracea conferta, Rchb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. XXX. p. 146 (1873), sub-species, 

 icon. xyl. t. 30. C. conferta, Parish et. Rchb. 



First detected by Dr. Griffith in Bhotan and the Khasia Hills, 

 and introduced by Mr. Brocklehurst, of The Fence, near Maccles- 

 field, about the year 1846. The variety conferta was first gathered 

 by the Rev. C. Parish, in Moulmein, whence it has recently been 



* Ccelogyne ocellata Boddaertiana, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. XVIII. (1882), p. 776. 



+ This is believed by some to be the Ccdogyne nitida of Lindley (Fol. Orch. Coelog. No. 

 12), and is in cultivation under that name. 



t Forsam propria species, sed characteres ad separandam speciem idonei nuUi inpromptu, 

 nisi forsan ovaria pedicellata adeo brevia, quod tamen et dispositune loci explicari potest. 

 — Rchb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. loc. cit. supra. 



