428 ORCHIDS. 
like the lid of a box; their colour is dull green, mottled 
with brown. The flowers occur singly, or sometimes in 
pairs, from scale-like buds at the base of the mature 
pseudo-bulbs ; they are 4in. across. The sepals and petals 
are lance-shaped, and coloured rosy lilac; the lip large, pale 
lilac, blotched with yellow and deep crimson on the side 
parts; there are five crested lines in the throat. We have 
seen pans Ioin. across containing plants of this species 
bearing over eighty flowers expanded at one time. It was 
introduced from the Himalayas, where it is very common 
on trees and rocks at high elevations, in 1850. 
Fig. 104; Botanical Magazine, t. 5370. 
P. maculata.—This has short, rounded, compressed, 
green pseudo-bulbs, with a ring-like ridge near the top. 
The leaves are bright green, and they spring from a bud 
which is inclosed in green, curiously-inflated sheaths. 
The flowers, which immediately precede the leaves, are 
short-stalked, spreading, fully 4in. across; the sepals and 
petals are oblong, pointed, and pure glistening white; the 
lip is funnel-shaped, rounded, the edges entire, the seven 
ridges or crested lines coloured yellow, the rest being 
white, blotched with crimson. The foliage falls in Sep- 
tember, and the flowers are developed in November, re- 
maining fresh about a fortnight. This species is one of 
the most delightful of winter-flowering Orchids. It is found 
at lower elevations, consequently it requires a little more 
warmth, than the others. It should be grown in an inter- 
mediate, rather than in a cool, temperature, although under 
the treatment recommended for Pleiones generally it makes 
large bulbs and flowers fairly well. A native of the moun- 
tains of Northern India, whence it was introduced by Messrs. 
Veitch, through their collector Thomas Lobb, in 1850. 
Botanical Magazine, t. 4691. 
