By Mr. John Lindley. 



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scribed, was destitute of bulbs, but the plant of the Garden 

 was furnished with large ovate oblong bulbs, each of which 

 was terminated by three ligulate acuminate channelled leaves 

 indistinctly five-nerved. The scape was about the same length 

 as the leaves of that shoot which produced it, but much 

 shorter than the full grown leaves of the old bulbs. The 

 differences that seem to exist I am disposed to believe depend 

 upon the age of the plant, which, when old, would have bul- 

 bous stems, of which it would be destitute when young. The 

 pollen masses were four, collateral, and not cohering in their 

 earliest state by any kind of process or matter, as far as I could 

 discover. 



A tender stove-plant ; flowers in December. It requires 

 the same kind of cultivation as the last. 



XXV. Ccelogyne fiinbriata. Lindley. 

 C. foliis binis oblongo-lanceolatis patentibus, floribus terminalibus solitariis : 

 sepalis interioribus filiformibus ; labello fimbriate* bicristato. Bot> Register, 



foL 868. 



A pretty little creeping plant, brought from China in 1824, 

 by Mr. John Damper Parks. The leaves appear upon small 

 bulbs connected together by a tough perennial prostrate 

 caudex, by which the plant may be increased. The flowers 

 grow from the bosom of the leaves, either singly or together ; 

 they are pale yellow, with a beautiful fringed lip, spotted, and 

 marked with brown. They endure several days. 



Figured and described in the Botanical Register, fol. 868, 

 from a plant which flowered in the Garden of the Society. 

 The blossoms appear from July to October. Cultivated as 

 others of its tribe. 



