CQiALOGYNE LENTIGINOSA. 
[Prats 442.] 
Native of Burmah. 
Epiphytal. Pseudobulbs situated upon a stout, creeping rhizome, somewhat 
distant, more or less obtusely four-angled, about three inches long, and deep green, 
sheathed at the base, with brown, ovate bracts. Leaves in pairs from the top of 
the pseudobulbs; these are oblong-lanceolate, acute, mostly petiolate, keeled 
beneath, and rich bright green. Raceme springing from the base of the pseudo- 
bulb, erect, usually bearing four or five flowers, which are about an inch and-a-half 
across. Sepals and petals nearly equal, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, keeled behind, 
rich straw-yellow in colour; lip three-lobed, side lobes rounded, white, bordered with 
deep brown and spotted with a lighter shade of the same colour; middle lobe 
broadly clawed behind, trowel-shaped in front, with an acuminate, recurved point, 
and a crisp, undulated margin, having a broad blotch of orange-brown in the 
middle and a marginal border of white, the disc with three slender raised plates, 
the middle one much the shortest, and each ornamented with numerous rounded 
teeth. 
C@LOGYNE LENTIGINOSA, Lindley, Folia Orchidacea, p. 146; Botanical Magazine, 
t. 5958; Reichenbach fil, in Transactions of the Linnean Society, xxx., p. 3; 
Art. Calogyne. 
The plant here figured is not a new introduction, it having been introduced by 
Messrs. Veitch and Sons some forty-five years ago, when it was described by Lindley 
from dried flowers which were received from Thomas Lobb, who found it in the 
neighbourhood of Moulmein, and from which the learned Doctor assigned it to the 
Fiaccip# section of Calogyne, but it truly belongs to the section having erect 
peduncles. The variety flowered by Messrs. Veitch in the autumn of 1871, however, 
was a far less pleasing form than the plant here portrayed, having the sepals and 
petals of a pale yellowish green, whilst in the best variety they are of a rich deep 
straw-yellow. Our present drawing was taken from a plant which flowered in the 
month of February, 1891, in the pleasant garden of A. H. Smee, Esq., The 
Grange, Carshalton, where many gems are congregated under the care of Mr. 
Cummings, his gardener. 
The plant now under consideration cannot be classed amongst the first-rate 
beauties in the Orchid family. It is, however, a very distinct plant and a 
highly desirable one, being a neat grower, its bright green bulbs and _ leaves 
rendering it always cheerful, whilst the yellow sepals and petals of the flowers, 
together with the white and orange of the lip, are a pleasing contrast. The 
form having green sepals and petals is much inferior, and it was this, perhaps, 
