[Plate 51.] 
THE HUMBLE PLEIONE 
(PLEIONE HUMILIS 
An Alpine Herbaceous plant , from Northern India, Lehnging to the Natural Order of Orchids 
Specific C^aiMctor* 
THE BUMBLE PLEIONE. Pseudobulbs flask-shaped 
furrowed. Bracts oblong-lanceolate, petaloid, longer 
than the ovary, but afterwards shrivelling and drawn 
back, leaving the peduncle naked. Sepals and petals 
hnear 
fringed 
are 
PLEIONE HUMILIS; pseudobulbis lagenoeforraibus 
sulcatis, bracte^ oblongo-lanceolatA petaloidea ovario 
longiore demum retracto pedunculo denudato, sepalis 
petallsque lineari-lanceolatis patentibus planis, labello 
cucullato emarginato necnon lineis 6 fimbriatis distantibus 
venis totidem coloratis interjectis. 
nepalenmSy p. 37 ; alias Epidendrura humile : Smith 
Rees 
rPHis beautiful gem was originally found by Dr. Buchanan Hamilton in Upper Nepal, amon 
on the trunks of trees. 
iffith met w ith it on the Bootan momitains in similar situations 
dense forests towards Santagong at tlie elevation of 8000 feet above the sea (Itinerary Notes, p. 158). 
Eecentlj it has been sent from the Khasijah hills to Messrs. Veitch, by Mr. Thomas Lobb, who 
found it at a place called "Sanahda," at the height of 7000 feet. 
It differs from the two species figured at our Plate 39, in the form of its pseudobulbs, in the 
narrowness of the sepals and petals, and especially in the long fringes that border the Hp, and which 
occur 
first then slirinking and shrivelling til it leaves the peduncle naked 
figUTi 
