COELOGYNE SPECIOSA. 
[Puate 494.] 
Native of the Salak Mountains, Java. 
Kpiphytal. Psewdobulbs ovoid, stuffed, angulate, about three inches high, tapering 
to a point. Leaves produced singly, they are oblong-lanceolate and acute, some 
twelve or eighteen inches long, strongly nerved and petiolate. Peduncles short, bracts 
sheathing and imbricating, mostly two-flowered. owers large, having the ovary 
very short and twisted, usually borne in pairs; sepals oblong-acute, keeled at the 
’ back; petals some two inches long, and very narrow; lip broad, very much larger 
than the other segments, three-lobed ; the whole centre being netted with deep brown, 
the central lobe also is doubly crested, and it has a fringed crest running the entire 
length on either side; the front lobe is broad, of the purest white, denticulate, and 
having a small sinus in the apical margin. 
CoELOGYNE speciosa, Lindley, Genera and Species of Orchidaceous Plants, p. 89. 
Ihd, Folia Orchidacea (Coelog.), No. 27, 1824. Botanical Register, 1847. 4. 38. 
Botamcal Magazine, t. 4889. De Vriese, Illustrations d’Orchidées des Indes 
Orientales, tt. 1—11. Williams’ Orchid Grower's Manual, 7th ed., p. 210. 
CoELOGYNE sALMoNIcOLOR, Reichenbach, Gardeners’ Chronicle, xx., p. 328. 
CHELONANTHERA SPECIOSA, Blume, Bidragen, 1825, t. 50, p. 384. 
This very interesting species of Coelogyne was first found by Blume on the 
Salak Mountains, Java, at some 4—5,000 feet elevation. He first figured it in 
his contributions to the Flora of Dutch India by the name of Chelonanthera speciosa, 
and under this name it long remained a puzzle to Orchidologists ; but at last it 
cropped out that the plant was a true Coelogyne, and a genus founded by Lindley 
some two years previously. It was first introduced to our gardens, in 1846, 
and Mr. Thomas Lobb found it again in the same locality in which it had been 
originally discovered. 
Coelogyne speciosa is almost a perpetual bloomer, the broad white front lobe of the 
lip rendering it very conspicuous. The plant here figured was finely in flower ip 
the month of September in our own Orchid collection, and from which our artist, 
Mr. J. N. Fitch, made the accompanying drawing ; from that time to the present 
we have noticed various plants flowering in different collections. This is a plant 
which thrives best in a shady, cool position in the Cattleya house. ~The plant 
usually produces several buds besides the two which ultimately develop, and could i 
but induce the plant to open its other buds, we should have a specimen as oe e 
for its beauty as the famous C. cristata and its varieties. It is 4 plant of very 
free growth and remarkable for the depth of colouring in its foliage, which at once 
