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COELOGYNE LURIDA L. LinpD. et coan. 
THE YELLOWISH COELOGYNE. 
COELOGYNE. Vide Lindenia, II, p. 79. 
Coelogyne lurida, Planta glaberrima. Pseudobulbis gracilibus, superne longe attenuatis, arcuatis, 6 cm. longis, 
1-foliatis, folio membranaceo subcoriaceo, oblongo-lanceolato, breviter 
inferne acuto, g-nervio, 14-15 cm. 
longo, 3 1/2-4 cm. lato; petiolo antice canaliculato, subsquarroso, 4 cm. longo. Scapis erectis, 6-7 floris ; pedunculo 
compresso, albido-viridi, brunneo-maculato ; pedicellis prope filiformibus, patulis, rubidis. Bracteis tenuissimis, siccis, 
albidis, oblongis acutis, concavis, multinerviis, ovarium aequantibus. Ovario lineari-claviformi, recto, obtuse trigono, 
6-costato, purpureo, cum pedicello 16-18 mm, longo. Sepalis membranaceis, basi patulis-ventricosis, demum erectis, 
liberis, aequalibus, late oblongis, acutis, 5-nerviis, nervo medio proeminente postice prope carinato, 2 cm. longis, 
luteo-viridulis, inferne purpureo suffusis. Petalis submembranaceis, erectis, lineari-ligulatis, superne longe attenuatis, 
sepala aequantibus, prope eodem colore. Labello sepalis aequilongo, distincte trilobo, late unguiculato, ungue erecto 
purpureo ; lobis albis exilibus; 1 libus-obovatis-oblongis, apice rotundatis, versus columnam deflexis; lobo antico 
patulo, ungue luteolo longo latiusculoque instructo, apice emarginato, utrinque dilatato in lobulos duos erectos rotun- 
datos, margine paulo fimbriatos; lamellae duo super discum usque ad apicem unguis lobi terminalis. Gynostemium 
sepalis fere aequilongum, albens, inferne gracile, superne bialatum, alis latis membranaceis viridibus, apice conjunctis. 
Anthera imperfecte bilocularis. 
Coelogyne lurida L. Linp. et Coan. in Lindenia, XI, p. 80, et infra. 
his charming species was introduced lately by the Horricutture InTER- 
NATIONALE, and flowered for the first time at this establishment last May. 
According to Bentham’s classification it belongs to the Eucoe- 
logyne section, and we only add from an horticultural point of view, accor- 
ding to the classifying proposed lately by the $owrnal des Orchidées, that it 
belongs to the group of species with erect flower-spikes, what constitutes a 
somewhat rare characteristic in the genus. This group only comprehends until 
now, as plants generally cultivated, C. ocellata, which is however very different 
from the new comer, as may easily be ascertained on examining the plate 
illustrating C. ocellata published in the Lindenia a few years ago. We must add 
that the discoveries made for the last two or three years in the genus have 
enriched it with two or three species which also produce erect racemes, so that 
this group, hitherto the most limited, seems to be the only one in which any 
novelty has been discovered for some time past. 
C. lurida has other valuable merits; the flowers are graceful, the colours 
harmonious and not so dark as in many of its congeners, the flowers are well 
expanded, the petals of nearly the same size as the sepals, whereas in many 
species these segments are very narrowly linear, or even filiform. In fact, it is a 
very good acquisition. 
