50 CCELOGYNE. 



l()iig, with three prominent nerves. Pethmcles erect, slender, shorter than 

 the leaves, 3 — 5 flowered. Flowers not fully expanding, white Avith an 

 orange blotch on the middle lobe of the lip, and some brown spots and 

 markings on the side lobes ; sepals and petals keeled behind, the former 

 lanceolate, acute, the latter linear ; side lobes of lip oblong, intermediate 

 lobe sub-quadrate, with three raised lines on the disk. Column winged 

 and hooded. 



Coelogyne sparsa, Rchb. in Gard. Chrou. XIX. (1883), p. 306. 

 A pretty floriferous dwa,7-f species, introduced by Messrs. Sander 

 and Co. from the Philippine Islands in 1882, through their collector 

 Roebelen. The specific name sparsa, ''sown or scattered/' refers, 

 according to its author, to the spotted side lobes of the lip. 



0. speciosa. 



Pseudo-bulbs ovoid, angulate, 1| — 3 inches long, monophyllous. 

 Leaves oblong-lanceolate, acute, 9 — 15 inches long, with 3 — 5 prominent 

 nerves, and narrowed below into a stoutish winged petiole. Peduncles 

 short, sheathed by 4 — 6 imbricating bracts, usually two-flowered. 

 Flowers among the largest in the genus, with pedicel and ovary very 

 short, ribbed and twisted ; sepals and petals 2 inches long, pale yellow- 

 brown, the former oblong, acute, and keeled behind, the latter linear; lip 

 larger than the other segments, nearly oblong in outline, three lobed, 

 and traversed longitudinally by two fringed crests, the side lobes erect, 

 entire, pale brown externally, clouded and reticulated with deep brown 

 on the inner side, as is the space between the fringed crests ; the front 

 lobe white, slightly reflexed, denticulate, undulate and with a shallow 

 sinus in the apical margin. Column clavate, bent, winged, whitish. 



Coelogyne speciosa, Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orch. p. 39 (1831). Id. Fol. Orcli. Ccelog. 

 No. 27 (1854). Bot. Reg. 1847, t. 23. Bot. Mag. t. 4889. C. salmonicolor, Rchb. in 

 Gard. Chron. XX. (1883), p. 328. Ohelouanthera speciosa, Bl. Bijdr. p. 384 (1825). 



var.— albicans. 



Flowers larger than in the type, the lip being 3 inches long ; sepals 



and petals light yellowish green; lip white, the front lobe very pure^ 



the side lobes freckled with red-brown on the inner side and between 



the fringed crests. Column white. 



C. speciosa albicans, supra. 



This i-emarkable Coelogyne was first detected by the Dutch 



botanist Blume, in the early part of the present century, on the 



Salak Mountains, in Java, at an elevation of 3,000 — 5,000 feet, and 



who published a description and drawing of it in his Bijdragen 



(Contributions to the Flora of Dutch India), under the name of 



Ghelonanthera sjjeciosa, a name that no longer has a place in orchid 



nomenclature, the genus Coelogyne, to which the plant unquestionably 



