CCELOGYNE. 47 



sparingly imported ; it is one of the most attractive of the small 

 Coelogynes. Goelogyne ochracea is sometimes confused with C. ocellata, 

 from which it may be distinguished by its shorter and broader 

 leaves, by its deciduous bracts, and chiefly by the characters of the 

 labellum, which has but two keels only, and the apical margin 

 of the side lobes denticulate and not entire, as in C. ocellata. 



0. odoratissima. 



Pseudo-bulbs ovoid, furrowed, f — 1 inch long. Leaves linear-lanceolate, 



acute, l^ — 3 inches long. Peduncles filiform, as long as the leaves, 



usually three flowered ; bracts narrowly lanceolate, longer than the ovaries. 



Flowers about an inch in diameter, fragrant, white with a lemon-yellow 



blotch on the lip ; sepals elliptic-lanceolate ; petals narrower, nearly linear ; 



lip obcordate, three-lobed with three longitudinal keels. Column elongated, 



semi-terete. 



Coelogyne odoratissima, Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orch. p. 41 (1831). Id. Fol. Orch. 

 Ccelog. No. 10. JBot. Mag. t. 5462. Thwaites' PI. zeyl. p. 300. C. angustifolia, 

 A. Eich. Ann. Sc. Nat. s. 2, XV. t. 6. Wight, Ic. PI. Ind. or. t. 1641. 



A native of the Neilgherry Hills in southern India, where it was 



detected by Dr. "Wight, towards the middle of the present century, 



growing on the trunks and branches of trees, and flowering throughout 



the rainy season from May to October; it also inhabits the Newera 



Elba and other elevated parts of the central province of Ceylon. It 



appears to have been first introduced to the Royal Gardens at Kew 



in 1863. It is a dwarf, tufted plant with fragrant flowers that may 



be cultivated in the cool house during the summer months, 



0. pandurata. 



Pseudo-bulbs from a stout creeping rhizome, oval oblong, compressed 



4 inches long. Leaves cuneate-oblong, 15 — 20 inches long. Racemes 



nearly as long as the leaves, pendulous, many flowered ; bracts cucullate 



deciduous, as long as the pedicels and ovaries. Flowers among the 



largest in the genus, 4 inches across; sepals and petals similar and 



sub-equal, linear-oblong, acute, keeled behind, pale green ; lip sub-panduri- 



form, the side lobes erect, yellow-green streaked with black, the middle 



lobe crisped and covered with black warty asperities and traversed by 



two longitudinal toothed keels. 



Cadogyne pandurata, Lindl. in Gard. Chron 1853, p. 791. Id. Fol. Orch. Ccelo" 

 No. 7. Bot. Mug. t. 5084. Pichb. Xen. Orch. II. p. 80, t. 121. Van Houtte"s" 

 Fl. des Serves, XX. t. 2139 (copied from Bot. Mag.) Williams' Orch. Alb. II. t. 63. 



Discovered by Sir Hugh Low in 1852, in Sarawak, where it is 



not uncommon, always growing in the hottest jungles on the trunks 



of trees in the swampy lowlands adjacent to the coast and river banks 



