Tas. 8729. 
PLEIONE Pricetr. 
Formosa. 
OrcurpacEarE. Tribe EpmpENDREAE.' 
Purtone, D. Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal. p. 86; Benth. et Hook. Ff. Gen. Plant. 
' vol. iii. p. 518, sub Coelogyne. 
Pleione Pricei, Rolfe; Orch. Rev. 1916, p- 126 (nomen); species nova, a 
P. formosana, Hayata, caule breviori unifloro, bracteis brevioribus et 
labelli disco bilamellato differt. 
Herba terrestris; pseudobulbi late ovoidei vel depresso-ovoidei, olivacei, vetusti 
obscure angulati, 1-5-2 em. lati, monophylli, vaginis membranaceis acutis 
obtecti. Folia per anthesin immatura, elliptico-lanceolata, acuta, 3°5-5 em. 
longa, matura ad 22 cm. longa, 3°3 cm. lata. Scapi erecti, 6-8 cm. longi, 
uniflori; bracteae oblongae, subacutae, convolutae, 2-2°5 cm. longae ; 
pedicelli 13-2 em. longi. Flores speciosi, 11-11°5 em. lati, lilacini, labello 
albidulo pallide brunneo-maculato, carinis pallide luteis. Sepala patentia, 
lanceolata, acuta vel subapiculata, 4°5-5°5 cm. longa; lateralia subrecurva. 
Petala anguste falcato-lanceolata, acuta, 5 cm. longa. Labellum con- 
volutum, expansum late orbiculari-obovatum, insigniter fimbriatum, 5 cm. 
longum, 4 em. latum; discus bilamellatus, lamellae undulatae, fere ad 
apicem extensae. Colwmna clavata, 3 cm. longa.—R. A. Roure. 
This pleasing Pleione is a native of Formosa, where it 
was discovered by Mr. W. R. Price, during the joint 
expedition to that island by Mr. H. J. Elwes and himself. 
In 1914 pseudobulbs were sent by Mr. Price to Kew, 
where they produced flowers in the following spring. It 
was at first believed that the species might prove to be 
P. formosana, Hayata, a native of the same island first 
described in 1911, of which there is no specimen available 
for comparison. The description of P. formosana, how- 
ever, indicates that in that species the stems are ten 
inches high with racemes of two to three flowers, bracts 
over an inch and a half in length and a 4-lamellate in 
place of the 2-lamellate lip-disk met with in P. Pricei. 
The figure now given has been prepared from the plants 
received at Kew from Mr. Price, but it has to be noted 
_ that another plant, which flowered in the collection of 
_ Mr. Elwes at Colesborne in April, 1917, produced a flower 
OctopeER, 1917. 
