CCELOGYNE 



IT is not often that a plant producing 

 green flowers may be considered elegant, 

 yet in Ccelogyne pandurata the colour 

 is of such a bright yellowish-green as to be 

 at once attractive and interesting. This 

 species takes its name pandurata — fiddle 

 shaped — from the curious resemblance which 

 the lip has to that musical instrument. Most 

 of the Coelogyne species are handsomely 

 marked on the labellum with numerous black, 

 wart-like tubercles. 



Sir Hugh Low, when exploring in tlie 

 Bornean province of Sarawak during the year 

 1852, discovered the species growing on the 



PANDURATA. 



trunks of trees in the swampy lowlands 

 adjacent to the coast and river banks. The 

 rainfall at certain seasons of the year is so 

 excessive that the utmost difficulty is experi- 

 enced in collecting the plants. 



Coelogyne i)andurata is not a difficult plant 

 to cultivate, and when its requirements are 

 fully understood small pieces quickly attain 

 sufficient size to produce an arching raceme 

 of several flowers. This, and other species 

 requiring similar treatment, grows well where 

 a hot, moist atmosphere can be constantly 

 maintained. A suitable house should have 

 thick brick walls, a substantial staging with 



