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CCELOGYNE. 



ones oblauceolate, acute. Racemes ])eii(,lul()us, the rachis ami pedicels 

 roughly tomeutosc, rotldish brown, and bearing 15 — 20 flowers ; bracts 

 oblong-acute, shorter than the ovaries. Flowers 2 — 2^ inches in diameter; 

 sepals and petals light orange-red, tlie fcn-mer lanceolate, acute, keeled 

 behind, the latter linear-lanceolate; lip obovate in outline, three-lobed, the 

 side lobes erect, oblong, rounded in front, Avhite streaked obliquely with 

 red on the inner side ; the intermediate lobe sub-quadrate, apiculate, 

 traversed by three toothed keels that extend to the base of the lip. 

 Column clavate. arched, winged above the middle, Avhitish. 



Coelogyne tomentosa, Lincll. Fol. Oi'ch. Cielog. No. 5 (1854). Rehb. in Gard. 

 Chron. 1873, p. 843. 



Coelogyne tomentosa. 



Coelogyne tomentosa was first described by Dr. Lindley, in 1854, 

 from an herbarium specimen at Kew, gathered a few years previously 

 by Thomas Lobb, who gave no locality. Nothing more was known of 

 it till 1873, in which year it flowered in the collection of Mr. A. D. 

 Berrington, at Pant-y-Goitre^ near Abergavenny, who had received it 

 from Borneo, whence it has been occasionally but very sparingly im- 

 ported since. The tomentose rachis and dark-coloured flowers clearly 

 distinguish this species Irom its congeners, among which it is one 

 of the handsomest. 



Sub-genus PLEI'ONE. 



Pleione, Don. Prod. Fl. Nep. j). 33 (182.5). 



The Pleiones are alpine plants inhabiting the lower and middle 



Himalayan zones, where they have a vertical range of 2,500 — 10,000 



feet, also the summits of the Khasia Hills, and the mountains of 



Arracan and Moulmein at 3,000 — 7,000 feet elevation. Most of the 



