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belongs, having been founded by Lindley two years previously on 

 the well-known G. cristata. It was first introduced iuto European 

 gardens by our Exeter firm in 1846, through Thomas Lobb, who 

 gathered it in the locality in which it had been first discovered by 

 Blume. As a species it is slightly variable in the size and colour 

 of its flowers, the most distinct deviation from the type as figui'cd 

 in the Botanical Register for 1847, that is known to us being the 

 variety described above, which appeared amongst a recent importation 

 brought to one of the London sale-rooms. 



The minute hairs forming the Iringe of the crest of the lip are 

 among the most beautiful microscopic objects imaginable, and which 

 must be seen to be appreciated. These hairs are sometimes simple. 

 Sometimes dichotomously branched, but in every case are terminated 

 by a cluster of unicellular stellate expansions of even greater 

 dehcacy than the pappus of many Composites. 



C. testacea. 



"Pseudo-bulbs obloug-ovate, varying in size, compressed and angled. 

 Leaves broadly lanceolate, acute, petiolate, with three principal ribs. 

 Racemes clothed with leafy imbricated scales at the base, drooping, 

 bearing 8—10 sub-distichous flowers; bracts large, ovate, brown, con- 

 cealing the ovary. (Flowers 1 — H inches across vertically); sepals and 

 petals nearly uniform, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, sonretimes apiculate, 

 jiale clayey white, sub-patent; lip broad-oblong, recurved, three-lobed, white 

 spotted and blotched with brown, the side lobes rounded, short ; terminal 

 lobe very obtuse, slightly waved, having four elevated lines fringed 

 with glandular hairs. Column terete, compressed, dilated and winged 

 on each side above." — Botanical Magazine. 



Coelogj'ne testacea, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1842, misc. 34. Id. Fol. Orch. Ccelog. 



No. 3. Bot. Mag. t. 4785. 



Introduced by Messrs. Loddiges from Singapore, in 1841. It was 

 in cultivation in the Royal Gardens at Kew thirteen years later, but 

 seems to have disappeared from British collections shortly aftei-wards, 

 and we find no record of its having been re-introduced since. It is 

 surpassed in attractiveness by its near congeners, CadiMji/ne 

 Massanqeana and G. Vaijana. 



C. tomentosa. 



Pseudo-bulbs ovoid, elongate, 2 — 3 inches long, of a dull deep pea-green 

 colour. Leaves petiolate, variable in shape, 9 — 12 inches long, the 

 broader ones obovate-lanceolate, with 3 — 5 prominent nerves, the narrower 



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