CQELOGYNE LACTEA. 
[PuaTE 459.] 
Native of Burmah. 
creamy white; petals much smaller, linear-oblong, coloured the same as the sepals ; 
lip three-lobed, side lobes erect, creamy white, slightly tinged with yellow, and 
veined with brown; middle lobe yellow at its base, pure white in front. 
C@LoGyNE _LacTEA, Reichenbach fil, Gardeners’ Chronicle, 1885, i., p- 692. 
Williams’ Orchid Grower's Manual, 6th edition, p- 6384. 
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The present species cannot claim a position amongst the gay and showy Orchids, 
but it nevertheless is well deserving a place in thé pages of the Orca Arzu for 
its quiet, unassuming elegance and modest beauty. We have found it to be a great 
favourite with the ladies, who have frequently expressed their admiration for its 
flowers, and we must ourselves admit that the spike, when properly dressed with 
Fern, forms an elegant shoulder-spray for a ball or evening party. 
The plant in question was introduced by us from Burmah some nine or ten years 
ago, and it appears to be somewhat widely distributed in this country, judging 
by the number of correspondents that have sent it to us for a name. There does 
not appear to be any difference in the varieties, however, but the form from 
Mr. Moss, of Winters Hill, Hants, was certainly the best we have seen: in this 
variety the sepals and petals were a trifle broader than the .orm here figured, and 
the whole flower was purer white in its colour; but the plant here figured is a 
very good representative of the species, and flowered in our own establishment, the 
Victoria and Paradise Nurseries, in the spring of the present year. Its flowers 
last a considerable time in full perfection. 
Calogyne lactea is a thoroughly distinct evergreen plant, free in growth, and 
also an abundant bloomer. It may be easily recognised, even when not in flower, by 
its very thick and leathery dark green leaves, and by its pseudobulbs which 
are very distinctly furrowed. The flowers are quite destitute of any perfume, 
and therefore do not offend even the most sensitive and delicate-nerved individuals, 
some being too strongly scented to admit of their being used for the purpose of 
adornment. It is a plant which grows well with other Indian Orchids or stove 
