The habit of these plants is so peculiar that it seems desirable to separate them jfrom Coelog) ne^ if 
any character can be found ; and we tliink the membranous bracts^ and strongly saccate lip "uith 
fringed veins of Pleione may be taken to offer a sufficient distinction from Ccelogyne with its horny 
or cartilaginous deciduous bracts^ and lip merely concave at the base^ with two or three continuous 
crests rising up from the veins. Perhaps too a more careful comparison than we have been able to 
make of the pollen of the two genera may furnish peculiarities of a more important kind. 
At all events Pleiones constitute a group which can never be intermingled with the species of 
Ccelogyne proper. The following is an enumeration of the species now known : — 
Pleione D. Don, 
1. Pleione maculata. Plate 39 of this work, 
2. 
3. ~ 
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5. 
6. 
lagenaria, „ ^ 
Wallichiana (alias Coelogjne Wallichiaua LincUey.) 
prcBcox D. Don. A fine species with large purple flowers and a fringed lip. 
humilis of this plate. 
dipJiylla ; pseudobulbia oblongis medio constrictis, foliis geminis subcoriaceis acuminatis, pedunculo 
flore terlongiore, bracte4 obtusa inflata apiculata ovarii longitudine, labello obtuse trilobo 
emarginato, venis fimbriatis 5-7 inten-uptis alter4 brevi adjecta utrinque juxta apicem. 
We have specimens of this plant from Mr. Griffith, who found it on the Khasyah 
Mountains, in shaded rocky places at Churra : and whose memorandum appears in Ills 
Itinerary Notes, p. 44, No. 684. From this it appears that the leaves are somewhat 
coriaceoua, and grow in pairs on the summit of oblong pseudobulbs, contracted in the 
middle, and spotted with purple on a green ground. The flowers are said to be very 
handsome, and white ; the lip being stained and lined inside with violet and crimson, and 
decorated with from seven to nine lines of yellow fringes. 
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