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GLOSSARY. 
Ccelogyne prcecox. A lovely little species, with small, sessile, 
pseudo-bulbs, clothed with beautifully veined scales, imbricated 
in two ranks. The flowers are produced just previous to the 
development of the seasonal growth, they are large, solitary, on 
shortish, terminal, nearly upright stalks, each within a lanceolate 
membranous sheath. The sepals and petals are lanceolate, 
acute, recurved, light rosy-purple, all nearly equal in length; 
sepals narrowest; the lip is nearly as long as the petals, rolled 
up into a funnel shape, externally pale purple, its taper base 
united with the bottom of the style, and a little protuberant, not 
embraced by the petals ; its margin spreading, fringed, white; 
the inside marked with five longitudinal, rough, elevated yellow 
lines. This species is a near relation of the charming C. 
Wallichiana. It inhabits a similar station in the East Indies, and 
principally differs in being altogether more robust, having paler 
coloured flowers and a much finer fringed labellum. Under cul¬ 
ture it proves less delicate, requires similar treatment, but grows 
stronger and increases with greater freedom.-— -Paoc. Mag. Bot. 
GLOSSARY OF TERMS USED IN BOTANICAL 
DESCRIPTIONS. 
Membranaceous. Having a thin, semitransparent texture, re¬ 
sembling a skin. 
Micacious. Glittering. 
Midrib. The principal vein of a leaf, passing through the 
middle from the footstalk to the opposite point. 
Mitriform. Shaped like a mitre. 
Moniltform. Alternately swollen and contracted, like the va¬ 
riations of a string of beads. 
Monocotyledons. One of the great divisions adopted in the 
natural system of botany, the members of which are distin¬ 
guished by having only one seed-leaf. 
Monoecious. Plants bearing flowers entirely of one sex. 
Monopetalous. Flowers composed of only one petal. 
Monosepalous. When the calyx is entire. 
