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[Plate 30.] 
1. THE SPOTTED PLEIOTs^E. 
{PLEIONE MACULATA,) 
II. THE BOTTLE PLEIONE. 
(PLEIONE LAGENARIA.) 
Terrestrial Alpine Herbaceous PlantSj from Xortiierx India, belonging to the Natural Order of Oucuids, 
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1. THE SPOTTED PLEIONE. 
Pseudobulbs whole- 
coloured, short, thick, rounded, narrowed at the base. 
Bract short, inflated, roundish, hooded. Sepals and petals 
oval, acute. Lip rouuded, entire, eniarginate, witli 
7 crested lines. 
L PLEIONE MACULATA ; pseudobulbis unicoloribus 
teretibus crassis basi augustatis, bractea brevi subrotunda 
cucullata inflata, sepalis petalis(iue ovalibus acuti?, labello 
rotundato integerrimo emar^inato lineis 7 cristatis. 
Gomphostylis Candida : Walllch k\ incxL Cuelog^-ne maculata : LrndL in Wallichy Plant, As. rariuvesy I., 45, t. 53. 
II. THE BOTTLE PLEIONE.— Pseudobulbs flask-shaped, 
clouded. Bract hooded, acute, very much tapering to 
the base. Sepals aud petals liucai'-lanceolate, acuminate. 
Lip rounded, entire, eraarginate, with 5 crested lines. 
II. PLEIONE LAGENARIA; pseudobulbis lageiiaeformi- 
bus nebulosis, bractea cucullata acut^ basi lonire annus- 
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tata, sepalis petalisque, liuearl-Ianceolatis acuminatisj 
labello rotundato integerrimo emarginato lineis 5 cristatis. 
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il plants are from the Alps of India. Tlve first was found by Dr. Wallicli^s collectors 
d tlie trunks of trees^ among moss^ on the Khasija Mountains, Mr. Tliomas 
found both in such places, and sent them to Messrs. Veitch, to whom we are indebted for specimens 
received last October. The Khasija name^ according to Dr. Wallich, is Atia-CIiakarjoate. 
The Spotted Pleionc has long been known to botanists as a species belonging to that Alpine 
group of so-called CoelogyneSj of which C. Wallkhiaua is the best known example^ and to which the 
Ephlendntm jWi£cox and hiuille of Smith are also assigned- They certainly resemble "Teatly the 
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