FEBRUARY, 1922.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 37 
CCEELOGYNE. SPECIOSA. 
MONG the many interesting species that have recently flowered in the 
collection of Mrs. M. J. Neale, Oxton, Kenton, nr. Exeter, is 
Ceelogyne speciosa, two fine varieties of which we have received from 
Mr. E. Swinden, who has charge of the collection. 
This species was discovered by Blume on the Salak Mountains, in Java, 
atan elevation of 3,000-5,000 feet, and first became known in European 
gardens in 1846 from plants collected by Thomas Lobb, one of which was 
figured by Lindley (Bot. Reg., 1847, ¢. 23), who remarked that “ the pale 
tawny sepals and petals, and the pitch-brown lip of this plant detract from 
its beauty, notwithstanding that they are relieved by a broad white column, 
and a pure-white termination to the lip, and that its flowers are nearly four 
inches in diameter when fully expanded. They have, however, a very 
singular appearance, and if they are produced in greater numbers will be 
attractive so long as the white remains unchanged.” 
One of the flowers from Mrs. Neale’s collection agrees with the above 
coloured plate so far as the sepals and petals are concerned, but the 
coloration of the side lobes and disc of the lip is not pitch-brown, but 
brownish red; hence the plant may be distinguished as C. speciosa 
rubiginosa. The other flower is larger, and has the sepals and petals light 
olive green, the lip whitish with the typical reticulated pit-brown markings. 
It approaches the variety albicans, of which a coloured plate is given in the 
Dictionnaire Iconographique des Orchidées, and described in Veitch’s Manual 
of Orchidaceous Plants. 
Concerning Ccelogyne speciosa, the last-mentioned authority remarks 
that ‘‘ the minute hairs forming the fringe of the crest of the lip are among 
the most beautiful microscopic objects imaginable, and which must be seen 
to be appreciated. These hairs are sometimes simple, sometimes dichoto- 
mously branched, but in every case are terminated by a cluster of unicellular 
stellate expansions of even greater delicacy than the pappus of many 
composites.” 
Ccelogyne speciosa alba is a pretty light flesh-coloured form, from which 
the usual brown markings have disappeared. It received an Award of Merit, 
R.H.S., March 28th, 1905, when exhibited by Messrs. Sanders. 
Ccelogyne Colmanii is a garden-raised hybrid between C. speciosa and 
C. cristata, and was raised in the collection of Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bart., 
Gatton Park, Surrey. The cross was made on April 15th, 1900, the seed 
sown on October 1st, 1901, and the first flower opened on January 27th, 
1907. The plant received an Award of Merit, R.H.S., Feb. rath, 1907. 
Later on in the same year this hybrid also flowered in the collection of 
Mr. P. Wolter, at Magdeburg. 
