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Tas. 5753. 
CdELOGYNE (Pleione) ReicHEnBACHIANA. 
Dr. Reichenbach’s Pleione. 
Nat. Ord. OrcnipEx.—Gynanpria Monanprra. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tan. 5674.) 
CaLoe@rne (Pleione) Reichenbachiana; pseudobulbo magno lagenweformi 
supra medium tumido longitudinaliter lobato, apice abrupte conico, 
floribus amplis, sepalis petalisque anguste oblongis roseis, labello albo 
disco roseo maculato mento brevissimo, lobis lateralibus brevibus 
terminali dilatato ciliato-dentato 2-fido, disco 3-carinato carinis medio 
serie papillarum ornatis, columna gracili apice 3-lobo, lobis lateralibus 
emarginatis intermedio dentato, rostello 3-lobo. 
Catoarne (Pleione) Reichenbachiana. T. Moore in Gard. Chron. 1868, 
p- 1210. 
This is decidedly the finest species of the Pleione group of 
Celogyne known; it was discovered by our excellent and 
indefatigable correspondent Col. Benson, of Rangoon, on the 
mountains of Arracan, I believe (but have no certain infor- 
mation), and transmitted by him to the Royal Gardens and 
to Messrs. Veitch’s establishment, in both which places it 
flowered simultaneously in November of last year. It was 
first described in the ‘ Gardeners’ Chronicle’ under the above 
name, thus paying a richly deserved compliment to a 
foreigner who has ever lent a helping hand to all classes of 
the British cultivators of his favourite order of plants. As 
a species it is very distinct from any other, by the great size, 
peculiar shape, lobing, and reticulated coloration of the 
pseudobulb, in which respect it most resembles C. lagenaria 
(Tab. nostr. 5370). The colouring of the lip and form of 
the lobes of the top of the column are variable. 
Descr. Pseudobulbs crowded, two inches and a half long, 
FEBRUARY Ist, 1869. 
