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226 THE ORCHID REVIEW. AUGUST, 1922: 
VARIETIES OF CCELOGYNE CRISTATA. 
T is pleasing to notice that some of the Orchids that were plentifully 
| cultivated years ago, and, in fact, so much so that not a few amateurs 
discarded them for rarer plants, are again coming into favour. Ten or more 
years ago, Coelogyne cristata was difficult to dispose of, and for want of 
purchasers many plants must have been destroyed. But those amateurs 
who have recently commenced Orchid culture find this good old species 
quite worthy of inclusion in their newly-formed collections. C. cristata is 
one of those easily-grown plants that is often seen flowering freely in an 
ordinary greenhouse during the winter months. © Any extra care, such that 
a keen amateur is accustomed to give his plants, is well rewarded by the 
production of handsome specimens, with an accompanying increase in the 
number of flowers. «~~ ; 
Ceelogyne cristata was originally discovered by. Dr. Wallich in 1824. 
It is a native of the lower Himalayan zone, at elevations ranging from 
4,500 to 7,500 feet. It was introduced by Gibson in 1837, but does not 
appear to have flowered in England until the spring of 1841. The flowers, 
borne on drooping racemes, are pure white, except for the orange-yellow 
disc and keels on the lip. 
The Arnigadh variety owes its name to its having been collected at that 
place. Plants sent to Kew from the Botanic Garden at Saharunpore in 
January, 1886, showed that the sepals and petals were plain, not crisped, 
as in the type. In the variety hololeuca the flowers are entirely white, not 
a trace of yellow is to be seen on the disc and keels of the lip. It is figured 
under its better-known name alba in the Orchid Album, II., t. 54, where tt 
is stated to have first flowered with Mr. T. A. Titley, Gledhaw, Leeds, and 
afterwards to have passed into the hands of Mr. Wm. Bull, of Chelsea. A 
varietyhaving the fringed keels on the lip of citron-yellow has long been 
_ known under the distinguishing name Lemoniana, not in allusion to the 
yellow colour, as is sometimes thought, but after Sir Charles Lemon, 1? 
whose collection it appeared before the year 1881. This variety is said to 
be identical. with the C. cristata citrina which was in the celebrated 
collection of Mr. John Day, of Tottenham. In Day’s variety the colour is 
intermediate between citrina and that of the type. The fine variety 
distinguished as maxima is figured in Reichenbachia I., t.6. The sepals and 
petals are broader and stouter, and the flowers altogether larger and 
superior to the type. A later flowering variety has been recorded as the 
Trentham form. It appeared in the Duke of Sutherland’s collection, 
and the flowers are said to be produced six to eight weeks later than other 
varieties. Nearly thirty years ago there was a variety with a pale 
primrose-coloured disc in the collection of Mr. R. H. Measures, Streatham- 
