CAHLOGYNE DAYANA. 
[Pirate 247. | 
Native of Borneo. 
Epiphytal. Psewdobulbs narrow cylindrical-fusiform, tufted, furrowed, four to 
five inches long, and invested at the base with long lanceolate acuminate light reddish 
brown scales. Leaves solitary, oblong acuminate, spreading, stalked, Scape terminal, 
lax, pendulous, developed with the young growth, bearing a distichous raceme 
curiously coloured flowers, with a rhomboid Faisinous brown bract as long as the 
ovary at the base of each. Flowers moderate-sized, the racemes containing about 
two dozen, which are rather distant from each other ; ; sepals ligulate acute, spread- 
ing, channelled, of a very light ochre colour—almost white; petals linear acute, 
rather over an inch long, coloured like the sepals; “ip three- Ro cuneate ipgrin. 
the lateral lobes blunt, recurved, and blotched exteriorly near the tip with 
brown, the blotch on the inner recurved face sp striped with white streaks, the 
front lobe shortly oblong-obovate apiculate, very pale ochre colour, bordered at the 
tip by a crescent-shaped belt of dark brown, with the extreme edge white, and 
having two keels extending from the base of the lip to the base of the middle 
lobe, where they become divided into six denticulate undulated keels. Colwmn 
slender, with an emarginate border to the anther bed. 
Catoeyne Dayana, Reichenbach Pi in Gardeners’ Chronicle, be ~ Xxi., 826; 
Id., xxvi., 44, fig. 9; Williams, Orchid-Grower’s Manual, 6 ed., 
The Ccelogynes constitute a large genus, to which the species now before us 
forms a most charming addition. It was first . flowered by J. Day, Esq., of 
Tottenham, in whose honour it is named, the compliment being well deserved, for 
no one has done more for the development of Orchid culture than has Mr. Day; 
and, moreover, he not only cultivates them but paints them true to nature. What 
a delight it must be to an Orchid student to have a collection of faithful 
sketches, made by his own hand, and which can be referred to at any time when 
required. 
Our drawing was taken from a well-bloomed plant in the noble collection of 
Baron Schréder, The Dell, Staines. It grows in the way of C. Massangeana, which 
we have figured at Plate 29 of our first volume, and produces its flower spikes in 
the same way, but is distinct from that species both as regards its flowers and 
its growth. The two species are good companions for each other. Mr. Ballantine, 
at The Dell, grows C. Dayana suspended from the roof of the house and as 
the flower spikes are of a drooping habit, it _— a better appearance while in 
bloom when disposed in this way. 
