At4 THe VRCHID REVIEW, (APRIL, tg22. 
CCELOGYNE SANDEREE. 
4PM HIS species is the prettiest known member of the group to which 
Lindley applied the name Prolifere. He remarked: ‘All the species 
here collected agree in having a number of hard imbricated scales 
immediately below the flowers, and not at the foot of the scape. They 
often, perhaps always, produce a second scaly sheath beyond the first series 
of flowers, and out of that sheath arises a second series of flowers. C. 
barbata distinctly combines this group with the section Erectz, through C. 
cristata.” The flowers are white, with the exception of the disc of the lip 
which is deep orange in front, much paler behind, and with three parallel 
keels covered with long, dark brown hairs, which are more numerous and 
paler in colour towards the base of the lip. It is allied to C. barbata, Griff., 
and C. elata, Lind., but is readily distinguished by a variety of characters. 
C. barbata, whose flowers agree in size, has a much narrower front lobe to 
the lip, and both it and the side lobes are fringed with long, dark brown 
hairs, while there is no orange blotch on the disc. C. elata has flowers 
only half the size, but very similar in shape, the lip more finely denticulate, 
and the keels undulate and crenulate or denticulate, but not covered with 
long hairs. C. Sandere is a very elegant species, and the dark brown hairs 
on the orange disc form a charming contrast with the rest of the flower. 
Ccelogyne Sander was introduced from Upper Burmah, and sent to 
Europe by Messrs. Sanders’ collector, Micholitz, who found it growing on 
the branches of low trees overhanging the rivers. It never occurs in large: 
‘quantities like many other members of the genus. It flowered at St Albans: 
for the first time in the summer of 1889. The many flowered inflorescences 
of snow-white blooms, with their delicate and charming yellow crests and 
dark brown hairy keels, are singularly pleasing. As many as fifteen flowers 
have been observed on a single spike in its native habitat. In cultivation: 
however, rarely more than ten are produced. The raceme has a somewhat 
‘drooping nature, and the individual flowers measure from three to four) 
inches across. A’ temperature of 60-65 degrees will prove suitable for its 
cultivation. 
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MASDEVALLIAS,—In Masdevallia we have a genus of plants as remark- | 
able for the uniformity ot their vegetation as for the diversity of form and 
colour displayed in their flowers. Striking as are the grotesque shapes’ 
assumed by the flowers of some of the Species, perhaps still more so is the 
extraordinary brilliancy of the colours of others, while in strong contrast to 
these there are other species whose flowers are of so homely a bie as to fail 
altogether to attract the favour of the greater number of Orchid cultivators: 
—Vettch’s Manual of Orchidaceous Plants. 
