CGHILOGYNE MASSANGEANA. 
[Piuate 29. ] 
Native of Masitin. 
Epiphytal. Pseudobulbs pyriform, three to four inches in height, smooth, bearing 
two leaves at the apex. Leaves persistent, cuneate-oblong, acute, stalked, somewhat 
plicate, a foot and a half high including the stalk, and four inches broad. Pedunele 
pendulous, produced from the base of the pseudobulbs, one and a half to two feet long, 
nigro-asperate ; bracts cuneate-oblong obtuse, much shorter than the pedicels. Flowers 
showy, in loose racemes of two dozen or more, yellow with a brown lip; sepals 
ligulate obtuse, somewhat keeled outside, light ochre-yellow; petals linear-ligulate, 
of the same colour as. the sepals; lp three-lobed, concave, the side lobes 
semi-ovate, acute in front, of a beautiful maroon-brown with ochre-coloured veins, 
the middle lobe creamy white at the edge, with a large brown disk, short, transversely 
oval with an apiculus, and having three light yellow rather prominent toothletted keels 
extending from the base to the anterior lobe, and “six confluent rows of green 
retuse many-angled cells, reminding one of human molar teeth” in front of them. 
Column light ochre-yellow, streaked with brown, winged in front, the anther-bed 
with a retuse membranous border. 
CaLocgyne Massancrana, Reichenbach fil., in Gardeners’ Chronicle, N.8., x., 684; 
Floral Magazine, 2 ser., t. 373. 
The plant which we now bring under the notice of our readers belongs to a 
Bie extensive genus of Orchids, some of the species ‘of which are very beautiful, 
while others are not worth cultivating as decorative plants. That which is now before 
us, 18, however, an exceedingly handsome and very remarkable species, which was 
mported from Assam, by MM. J acob-Makoy & Cie., of Liége, Belgium. Our illustration 
ee tom. 9 very. fine plant, which produced no fewer than eight of its long 
pendulous racemes of flowers, some of these having as many as twenty-seven blossoms 
" them. This grand specimen was grown in the notable collection of Mons. D. 
a. at the Chateau de Baillonville, near Marche, in Belgium, in whose honour 
this SS. Se ; named by Professor Reichenbach. We had the a of seeing 
ouse is =. arily fine plant, growing under pot-culture, in M. Massange s Cattleya 
the Ge epaeatas then we have received the materials from which our artist has made 
oan Tepresentation which accompanies these remarks. In regard to its botanical 
¢. ae stands near to the Bornean Celogyne asperata, which is sometimes called 
_ remarkable feature of this Calogyne Massangeana is the extraordinary 
2 *ss of time which it takes to develope its rather ample spikes of flowers; these 
tat ¢ as 
