CCELOGYNE ASPERATA 



[Plate 811.] 



JVative of Borneo. 



Terrestrial. ' Fseudohiilhs large, stout, from six to eight inclies liigh, oblong, 

 dull green, becoming corrugated with age, and surmounted by a pair of stalked 

 lanceolate, plicate, dull green leaves about two feet in height. The raceme is 

 about a foot long, pendulous, bearing from twelve to fifteen flowers, and fur- 

 nished with roundish- ovate, concave, membraneous bracts. Flowers some three 

 inches in diameter, and arranged in a distichous manner; sepals lanceolate, carinate, 

 pale cream colour ; petals similar in colour, but narrower ; lip creamy yellow, three - 

 lobed, lateral lobes erect, ovate-obtuse, middle lobe oblong-obtuse, crisp on the edge 

 and ornamented with a warty ridge or crest on the disc, where it is rich orange- 

 colour, and from which radiate numerous streaks and veins of bright chocolate 

 and yeUow. Column stout, somewhat triangular, cream colour. 



CffiLOGYNE ASPERATA, Linclley, in Journal of the Horticultural Society ^ iv., 



p. 221; Id., Folia Orchidacea, Art. Ccelogyne, No. 6; Pescatorea, t. 7; Williams, 

 Orchid- Growers' Manual, 6 ed, p. 216. 



CcELOGYNE Lowii, Paxtou's Magazine of Botany, 1849, xvi., p. 225. 



This fine member of the genus Ccelogyne was first introduced to this country 

 in . the year 1845 by the Messrs. Low & Co., of Clapton, who distributed it under 



the name of C. Lowii. It is a native of Borneo, and is found srrowing wild in 



-that island on low marshy grounds in the neighbourhood of the Sarawak Eiver. 

 It is both a showy and beautiful species — in fact, one of the very best, when 

 well grown — its fine foliage and dense arching spikes of bloom rendering it 

 extremely useful for public exhibition purposes; and some years ago many fine 

 specimens were wont to be seen, making a grand display, at the Eoyal Horticultural 

 Society's gatherings in London. The very finest plant of (7. as^erata that we 

 ever saw was a specimen grown by Mr. Pilcher, when gardener to T. Twisden 

 Hodges, Esq., previous to his taking charge of the collection of Orchids formed 

 by the late Sigismund Eucker, Esq., at Wandsworth; but, of late years, one seldom 

 sees this species, either in large or small plants, from which we infer that it must 

 be very rare in its native habitat ; and as the Messrs. Low must be well 



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acquainted with the exact locality whence it was derived, they would confer a great 

 benefit upon the Orchid world were they to import some more of it, in order that 

 the present generation of Orchid growers might be enabled to produce grand speci- 

 mens similar to those which formerly graced our plant-houses. 



