COELOGYNE CRISTATA. 
[PLatE 501.] 
Native of Northern India. 
__ Epiphytal. _ Pseudobulbs oblong, becoming somewhat angulate, produced from a 
thick scaly rhizome, two-leaved. Leaves linear-lanceolate. Scape radical, erect, bearing 
a drooping raceme of flowers, five to eight in number. Mowers large, about five 
inches in diameter; sepals oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, undulate, pure white; petals 
similar in form to the sepals, but broader, pure white; lip three-lobed, concave, pure 
white, furnished in the centre with five parallel longitudinal lamellae, which are 
fringed, deep yellow in colour. Column white. 
CorLocyne cristata, Lindley, Collectunea Botanica, sub. t. 33. Genera and 
Species of Orchidaceous Plants, p. 39. Botanical Register, 1841, t. 57. Folia 
Orchidacea, Art. Coelogyne, No. 20. Pescatorea, t. 25.  Gartenflora, t. 245. 
Warner's Select Orchiduceous Plants, i, t. 35. Flore des Serres, t. 1807. 
Jennings’ Orchids, t. 7.  Pazton’s Flower Garden, iii., p. 171, fig. 312. Gardeners’ 
Chronicle, N.S., 1877, vii, p. 597, fig. 95 (specimen plant). Jd. 38rd series, 1888, 
iii, p. 489, fig. 68. Moore's Illustrations Orchidaceous Plants, Coelogyne, t. 4. 
LT’ Orchidophile, 1888, p. 212. Journal of Horticulture, 1888, xvi., p. 197, fig. 25. 
Revue d’Horticulture Belge., 1889, p. 85, t. 8. Veitch’s Manual of Orchidaceous 
Plants, vi., p. 34.  Wilhams’ Orchid Grower's Manual, 7th edition, p. 204. 
This is a most chaste and lovely Orchid, and although one of the oldest 
inhabitants of our stoves, is nevertheless always welcome to Orchid growers; it 
blooms in the winter months at a time when flowers are in great demand, and so 
useful are its white elegant flowers for decorative and cutting purposes that some 
erowers have houses full of it. In addition to the useful purposes that the flowers 
may be put to, the plant itself is very ornamental, its large plump glossy dark 
green bulbs and leaves being by no means unsightly, as are many of our Orchids 
when out of flower. It was discovered by Dr. Wallich in the mountain region of 
Nepaul, and was first flowered by Mr. Barker, of Birmingham, in 1841. 
Coelogyne cristata is of dwarf habit of growth, producing its dark green bulbs 
and leaves in profusion, and flowering most abundantly, its spikes of flowers being 
produced in great profusion from the base of the bulbs. There are several varieties 
of this species, which vary considerably from the pure white C cristata alba, figured 
on plate 54 of the second volume of this work, to the deep orange-lipped form of 
the original type; then there are C. cristata citrina with its pale yellow crests of 
the lip, another form a little darker called Day's variety, and the giant form 
which is known under the names of major and maavma. The present subject may 
be said to be everybody’s Orchid, as it is so easy of cultivation and so useful 
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