48 C(ELOGYNE. 



places that are almost inaccessible during the rainy season. Coehgi/ne 

 pari'lurata flowered for the first time in this country in Messrs. Loddiges' 

 nursery at Hackney, in 1853; it is one of the most remai'kable of 

 orchids, the unusual colour of its large flowers rarely failing to 

 arrest the attention of the beholder. 



C. Parish ii. 



Pseudo-bulbs oblong, obscurely four-angled, 4 — 6 inches long. Leaves 

 narrowly elliptic-oblong acute. Peduncles from the apex of the pseudo- 

 bulbs, sheathed at the base by 6 — 8 imbricating scales, racemose above, 

 usually five flowered. Flowers 2 inches in diameter, pale yellow-green, 

 the lip spotted with black ; sepals lanceolate, acuminate, keeled behind ; 

 petals linear-lanceolate ; lip panduriform, the anterior lobe apiculate, with 

 undulate margin and with five fringed raised lines on the disk, two of 

 which are prolonged to the base of the lip. Column semi-terete, bent. 

 Ccelogyne Pavishii, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 5323 (1862). 

 Sent to Messrs. Low and Co. in 1801, from Moulmein, by 

 Rev, C. Parish, It is a curious and distinct species, having some 

 resemblance to Ccelogi/ne ■pandurata , but with very differently-hhaped 

 pseudo-bulbs, from the summit of which the inflorescence is produced, 

 and not from the base as in that species ; it differs also from 0. pan- 

 durata in the size of the flowers and especially in the structure of 

 the labellum, the anterior lobe of which is shorter and broader in 

 proportion to the length, and has five fringed keels on the disk in 

 the place of the warty crest of G. pandurata. 



C Rossiana. 



Pseudo-bulbs ovoid or sub-pyriform, much furrowed when old, variable 

 in size in the cultivated plant, the largest 2 — 3 inches long. Leaves 

 lanceolate, acuminate, 10 — 12 inches long, narrowed below into a slender 

 petiole, coriaceous. Racemes erect, shorter than the leaves, 7 — 10 

 flowered. Flowers l^ — 2 inches in diameter; sepals and petals milk- 

 white, keeled behind, the former narrowly oblong, acute, the latter 

 linear; lip broadly oval, obscurely lobed, the erect side lobes red-brown 

 on the inner side, the front lobe bright yellow, the disk and space 

 between the side lobes white traversed by three longitudinal crenulate 

 keels. Column clavate, slender, bent. 



Ccelogyne Rossiana, Rchb. in Card. Chron. XXII. (18S4>, p. 808. Rolfe in 



Gard. Chron. VI. s. 3 (1889), p. 050. 



Imported from Burmah in 1884 by Mr. FT. J. Ross, of Castagnolo, 

 near Florence. We are indebted to the Royal Gardens at Kew for 

 materials for description, 



