spreading in front, in colour white with about half-a-dozen pale, brownish-purple 
spots towards the front, the throat being light yellow. Flowers in late Spring or 
early Summer. 
Syn. Coelogyne Hookeriana. 
PLEIONE HUMILIS. Native of Northern India, (Illustrated.) 
A small growing species with little, flask-shaped, dark green pseudobulbs, clothed 
with fibrous scales, and crowned with a pointed, lanceolate, dark green leaf. The 
single-flowered spike grows from the base of the matured bulbs. The blooms are 
up to 4 inches in width, the sepals and petals, linear-lanceolate in shape, bluish 
white, and the trumpet-shaped lip the same colour, with half-a-dozen parallel 
fringed veins, with alternating stripes of rich purplish-crimson. Front of the lip 
is fringed. Flowers in Winter and lasts about three weeks. 
Syn. Coelogyne humilis and Epidendrum humile. 
Var. albata.—Sepals, petals and lip pure white, the latter having pale purple 
radiating lines with a bright yellow spot on each side of the lip towards the front. 
Var. tricolor.—Sepals and petals pale pink. Lip very large and beautifully frilled. 
Pale yellow with brownish streaks in the centre. Flowers in early Autumn. 
PLEIONE LAGENARIA. Native of Himalayas. 
A brilliant species with clustered, wrinkled, broadly flask-shaped pseudobulbs, 
somewhat flattened near the apex and light green spotted with brown. Leaves 
solitary, lanceolate. Flower scapes short and single flowered. The bloom is about 
2 inches wide. Sepals and petals rosy-lilac. Lip white, sometimes with a pale lilac 
tinge, the middle part having a large patch of yellow which is traversed by four 
to six bearded ridges, margin crinkled, white barred and blotched with deep 
magenta. Flowers in late Winter and lasts a month or more. 
Syn. Coelogyne lagenaria. 
PLEIONE MACULATA. Native of Khasi Hills, Assam. 
A most variable species, the best varieties being very beautiful. Pseudobulbs round- 
ish and somewhat flattened, glossy dark green in colour, with brown imbricated 
scales. Lanceolate leaves are plaited, one being carried by each young pseudobulb. 
Scapes short and solitary-flowered. Blossoms about 2 inches across. Sepals and 
petals white. The oblong lip is white marked with oblique purple lines. The 
front lobe is ovate and wavy, somewhat retuse. The disk is yellow with five to six 
elevated fringed veins lined with ffurple. The margins are wavy and barred with 
crimson-purple. Flowers in early Winter and lasts up to a month, 
Syn. Coelogyne maculata. . 
PLEIONE PRAECOX. Native of Northern India, etc. 
A very beautiful species of small habit, the pseudobulbs being top-shaped and pale 
mottled brownish-purple covered with a veined network. Leaf solitary, broadly 
lanceolate, membraneous and plicate. Scape short and solitary-flowered. Bloom 
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