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CCELOGTNll. 



inches long, plaited and petiolate. Peduncles one- sometimes two-flowered. 



Flowers 3 inches across vertically ; sepals and petals light rose-purple, 



the former lanceolate, acntc, the latter linear ; lip oval-oblong, three- 



lobed, the side lolies convolute over the column, pale rose colour, the 



front lobe sub-quadrate with fringed margin, and coloured like the sepals 



and petals, with a bright yellow disk on which are five denticulate 



lamellae. Column slender, with two notched wings at the apex. 



Ccelogyne pr?ecox, Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orch. p. 49 (1831). Id. Fol. Orch. Coelog. 

 No. 42. Paxt. Mag. Bot. XIV. p. 7. Pleione precox, Don. Prod. Fl. nep. p. 37 

 (1825). 



var. — Wallichiana. 



Peduncles usually one-flowered. Flowers of a deeper colour and with 

 the veins of the sepals, petals, and convolute lobes of lip usually more 



Ccelogyne prsecox Wallichiana. 



distinctly marked ; the front lobe of the lip dentate rather than fringed, 



and the teeth of the lamellae of the disk shorter than in the type. 



C. preecox Wallichiana, Lind. Fol. Orch Ccelo^. No. 42 (1854). C. Wallichiana, 

 Bot. Reg. 1840, t. 24. Bot. Mag. t. 4496. Pleione Wallichiana, Lindl. in Paxt. Fl. 

 Gard. sub. t. 51 (1851). P. prsecox Wallichiana, Jennings' Orch. t. 47. P. birraanica, 

 Rchb. in Gard. Chron. XVII I. (1882), p. 840. 



First discovered by Dr. Wallich in Sylhet and on the Khasia Hills, 



where it was collected by Gibson and sent by him to Chatsworth 



