PLEIONE. 429 
P. precox.—There is very little difference in the shape, 
size, and colour, of the pseudo-bulbs of this and of 
P. lagenaria. The flowers also of thesé two resemble 
each other, but those of the first-named appear about a 
month later, are darker in colour, and larger, whilst the lip 
is conspicuously fringed, and lacks the longitudinal blotches 
on the side which characterise P. lagenaria. It was intro- 
duced from the Himalayas in 1840. Syn. P. Wallichiana. 
Botanical Magazine, t. 4496. 
