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PL. DXLVIIL. 
COELOGYNE MASSANGEANA cup. F. 
Mr. MASSANGE DE LOUVREX’S COELOGYNE. 
COELOGYNE. Vide Lindenia, U1, p. 79. 
Coelogyne Massangeana. Pseudobulbo pyriformi, foliis petiolatis cuneato-oblongis acutis; ped lo longissimo 
deflexo laxifloro, parcissime hinc nigro asperato; bracteis cuneato-oblongis obtuse retusis ovaria pedicellata vix 
dimidio aequantibus, ovariis parce nigro muriculatis; sepalis ligulatis obtusis, extus linea media carinatis; petalis 
lineari-ligulatis obtuse acutis; labello trifido concavo, laciniis lateralibus semiovatis antice acutis, lacinia media 
abbreviata transverse ovali emarginata cum apiculo, carinis ternis crenulatis a basi in basin laciniae anticae; cari- 
nulis ibi antepositis alternantibus senis ex papulis retusis multangulis dentes molares humanos aemulantibus, columna 
antice alata, ala retusa circa androclinium. 
Coelogyne Massangeana, Reus. F. in Gard. Chron., 1878, Il, p. 684. — Fl. Mag., n.s., t. 373. — Bot. Mag., 
t. 6979. — Warn. et WILL., Orch. Alb., t. 29.— WILL., Orch. Gr. Man., 7¢ ed., p. 207. — Fourn. des Orch., 
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ext to C. cristata, which rightly deserves to be regarded as the king of 
the genus, there is hardly any Coelogyne so highly esteemed by 
wil] amateurs as C. Massangeana. This esteem is not so much due to the 
beauty of the individual flowers as to their great profusion and to the vigour of 
the plant. There are many species more elegant in form and colour, the graceful 
C. ocellata for example, but there is none — C. cristata always excepted — which 
forms such prodigious specimens and become covered with such masses of 
flowers. For this reason C. Massangeana was the centre of attraction at one of the 
great exhibitions (Temple Show) held in London in 1894. In the centre of a 
superb group, one of the principal English amateurs exhibited a vigorous spe- 
cimen in a hanging basket which was surrounded on all sides by long pendulous 
racemes of flowers. It was a plant truly worth exhibiting, and thereby indicated 
the riches of tropical vegetation. 
C. Massangeana flowered for the first time in Oct. 1878 in the collection of 
the well-known Belgian amateur to whom it has been dedicated by ReicwEenzacu. 
Curiously enough, notwithstanding its distribution in cultivation, the native 
country of this species has never yet been clearly indicated. It appears to have 
been grown prior to 1878 under the name of C. assamica and ReIcHENBACH 
mentions it as a native of Assam. But the editor of the Botanical Magazine is 
rather inclined to think that it belongs to Malaya. 
It very much resembles the Bornean C. asperata, but is distinguished from 
that species by the form and height of its pseudo-bulbs, by the non-pubescent 
raceme, and by the different shape of the lip. 
The flowers are 2 to 3 inches (5 to 7 */, centimétres) across, with clear 
