“TAB, GIZo. 
POGONTA piscotor. 
Native of Java. 
Nat. Ord. Orcnipem.—Tribe ARETHUSE. 
Genus Poconta, Juss. ; (Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid., 413). 
Pogonta discolor; folio breviter petiolato rotundato-cordato-multinervio 
discolori supra et subtus ad nervos rufo-setoso, scapo subbifloro bracteis 
spathaceis occulto, sepalis petalisque consimilibus linearibus acuminatis 
pallide fusco-viridibus, labello obcordato-2-lobo albido, 
P. discolor, Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat., vol. i. p. 32; Coll. Orchid. 
Archip. Ind. et Jap., 152, t. 57, f. 1; Miquel Fl. Ind.-Bat., vol. iil. 
p- 716. , 
Rirnosremon discolor, Blume Flor. Jav. Pref., vol. vi.; Lindl. Gen. et 
Sp. Orchid., p. 453. 
CorpyLa discolor, Blume Bijd., p. 417._ 
The species of Pogonia have usually little to recommend 
them for horticultural purposes; but to this there are excep- 
tions, especially amongst the Indian species, some of which 
that have been cultivated at Kew present, like that here 
figured, beautifully coloured and marked leaves that per- 
sist for many weeks, and attract the attention of the most 
ordinary observer. All have tuberous roots, often formed at 
the end of subterranean cylindric fibres. It 1s not easy so 
to manage their culture as that the leaves, flowers, and new 
tubers should be successfully formed, and upon this their con- 
_tinuance under cultivation depends. The present is closely 
allied to the common P. plicata of Bengal, which has a 
rose-coloured lip. Blume describes the lip of P. discolor as 
entire, but it is retuse in his drawing, and distinctly 2- 
lobed in our specimen. 
Pogonia discolor is a native of damp forests in the moun- 
tain region of Western Java, where it flowers in November. 
The specimen here figured was flowered by Mr. Bull, in 
February last, and the leaf was fully formed in the following 
June. 
OCTOBER Ist, 1874. 
