122 ORCHIDS 



Gmlogyne. 



cooler : when in flower, it may be removed to the drawing- 

 room or the dining-room without fear of injury. It must, 

 however, be placed in the greenhouse again as soon as the 

 flowers wither, or the dryness of the atmosphere may cause 

 the growths to be stunted, and thus one season's blossom would 

 be lost The pseudo-bulbs are oblong or almost spheroid, 

 smooth and shining, and apple-green in colour, bearing a pair 

 of narrow, leathery, dark green leaves. The raceme is some- 

 what drooping, many-flowered, about gin. in length ; the 

 blossoms are fragrant, and from 3in. to 5in. in diameter. The 



Fig. 36. Flowers of Ccelogyxe cristata alba 

 (much reduced). 



sepals and petals are snow-white, the former being broad and 

 wavy, the latter narrower ; the lip is also white, with a large 

 blotch of rich yellow in the middle, the ridge, or crest, being 

 ornamented with a golden fringe, to which the plant owes its 

 specific name. Cultivated plants sometimes attain a remarkable 

 size, as many as 500 or 600 pseudo-bulbs, bearing upwards of 

 100 spikes of snow-white flowers, with foliage of a beautiful- fresh 

 green, having been counted on one plant. Himalaya, 1837. 

 (B. R., 1S41, t. 57.) 



Var. allm (Fig. 36) has every part of the flower of the purest 

 white. Syn. C. hololeuca. 



