CHELOGYNE GARDNERIANA. 
[PuaTE 153. ] 
Native of India: Nepal, Khasya, §c. 
Epiphytal. Pseudobulbs flask-shaped, terete, somewhat furrowed, attaining six 
inches in length, diphyllous. Leaves broad lanceolate, acuminate, a foot and a. hal 
long, five-nerved, narrowed below into a long stoutish petiole. Scape lateral or 
terminal, bearing a dense nutant distichous raceme shorter than the leaves, and 
furnished with broad oblong cucullate bracts, the sterile ones fleshy, the floriferous 
ones persistent and petaloid, of a pale sienna-brown (or yellow) colour. Flowers two 
to two and a half inches long, closed, that is, having the sepals, petals, and lip 
connivent ; sepals oblong, keeled, saccate at the base, white; petals linear-oblong 
acute, also white; lip narrow-elongate denticulate, bisaccate at the base, three-lobed, 
the middle lobe bifid, recurved at the tip, yellow, the lateral lobes erect, rounded 
at the front, white; the disk having two flexuose crests running out below the 
middle. olumn semiterete, gibbous at the back below the apex, the margins 
bluntly winged. | | 2 
Ca@LOGYNE GARDNERIANA, Lindley, in Wallich’s Plante Asiatice Rariores, i., 33, 
t. 38; Jd. Genera and Species of Orchidaceous Plants, 41; Id. Folia Orchidacea, 
art. Coelogyne, No. 1; Reichenbach fil., in Walpers’ Annales Botanices Systematice, 
vi., 222; Paaton, Magazine of Botany, ix., 73. 
C@LOGYNE TRISACCATA, Griffith, Itinerary Notes, 72. 
This rare and charming plant is one of the most distinct of the species of 
Calogyne. We have known it for many years, but, at the present time, one seldom 
‘sees ‘it in collections, which is much to be regretted. It belongs to a large genus 
containing many fine things, and we hope our Orchid collectors will send us more 
abundant materials, that we may enrich our Stoves and Orchid houses with the best 
and most striking of them. But though there are amongst them many beautiful 
Species, there are some which produce diminutive flowers, and these are unattractive 
and uninteresting to those who are fond of showy flowers. The smaller kinds may 
be cultivated on blocks of wood, which are very suitable to them, since they produce 
pendulous spikes, which gives them an. interesting aspect when grown in that way. 
Our present drawing was taken from a fine plant in the well-known collection of 
Dr. Paterson, Bridge of Allan, near Stirling, N.B., who flowers this choice species 
very freely. 
Celogyne Gardneriana has dark shining green pseudobulbs, with foliage about a - 
foot high or more. It produces its flowers on drooping spikes, the blossoms being 
pure white, having a pale lemon-yellow tip to the lip; and it blooms in October and 
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