Epiphytal. _Pseudobulbs_ roundish-ovate, plump, two-leaved, with brownish lanceolate bracts at their base. _Leaves_ narrowed below into a petiole, elliptic-oblong, with a stout costa, plicate, leathery, one and a half-inch wide, and from six inches to a foot long including the petiole, of a lively green. _Peduncles_ erect, rigid, springing from between the leaves, terete, terminating in a dense raceme of flowers, below which are several pairs of abortive imbricated pale brown bracts. _Flowers_ large, white, with a peculiar sooty or pitchy stain covering the inner side of the lip, breaking out into fine pencillings towards the margin; _sepals_ white, oblong-ovate, broadish at the base, narrowed to the acute point; _petals_ white, lanceolate acute, broadest at the base; _lip_ white, oblong, three-lobed, saccate at the base, fringed with brown-based hairs on the anterior margins, and bearded with hairs entirely dark brown on the three veins of the disk, forming three shaggy crests, the side lobes tinged with pale flesh colour or pink outside. _Column_ white, deflexed, bilobed at the end. Cœlogyne barbata, _Griffith_, _Itinerary Notes 72_; _Id._ _Notulæ ad Plantas Asiaticas_, iii., 280, t. 291, fig. 2; _Lindley_, _Folia Orchidacea_, _art._ Cœlogyne, No. 21; _Reichenbach fil._, in _Walpers’ Annales Botanices Systematicæ_; vi., 229. Of our present subject Dr. Lindley remarks (_Folia Orchidacea_, l. c.)—“This is, perhaps, the finest of this fine genus. The coriaceous leaves are more than fifteen inches long; the scapes are erect, very stiff, as long as the leaves, and furnished at the apex with an imbricated sheath of bud scales, out of which appears a flexuous raceme four to six inches long, composed of very large blunt deciduous bracts. The flowers are fully two inches and at half in diameter, pure white, except very long hairy fringes which are brown at their base, where they border the lip, and wholly brown where they cover the veins, and form three shaggy crests.” The only figure previously published is a very indifferent one of Griffith’s quoted above. In the _Cœlogyne_ we now bring to the notice of our readers we have one of the most useful species of a comparatively large genus, and one that blooms during the winter months, when white flowers are sought after. It is one, moreover, the flowers of which stand well when cut. We are indebted to Mr. W. Bull, of Chelsea, for the introduction of this species; which is a free bloomer when the bulbs are strong. It is a plant which possesses many good qualities, being a free grower as well as a free bloomer, and having the advantage of bearing fine evergreen foliage; it will thrive well in the cool house with Odontoglots; and besides all this, it is a cheap plant, so that everyone having a cool house can procure and grow it without much expense or trouble. Our drawing was taken from a specimen which flowered in the Victoria and Paradise Nurseries.