3 inches wide. Sepals and smaller petals deep pink. Lip prominent, bluish-white, 
disk yellow, with five dentate crests which stretch almost to the apex, and a few 
yellow and pale pink spots. Front part beautifully fringed. Flowers in Winter, 
lasts two to three weeks. 
Var. Wallichiana.—Sepals, petals, and lip deep magenta-purple, the latter having 
a broad, yellow streak in the disk, crossed by five ridges of white tubercles and 
with a few crimson stains in the throat, the apex being dentate. Flowers larger 
than the type. 
PLEIONE SCHILLERIANA. Native of Burma. 
A handsome species which, like P. Hookeriana, retains its leaves during the flower- 
ing period. Pseudobulbs very small, somewhat pear-shaped and clustered, pale 
green and pitted. Scapes short, bearing two leaves and a solitary flower. The 
oblong, acute dorsal sepal is erect, while the lateral sepals are somewhat falcate and 
incline downwards. Petals are very narrow and also tend to point downwards. 
Sepals and petals brownish-yellow. The lip is broad and trilobed. Lateral lobes 
erect, semi-ovate, white or cream with a deep, orange-red margin. Middle lobe, 
constricted at the base and spreading in front, convex and dentate on the margins. 
In colour it is the same tawny-yellow, blotched and spotted with orange-red. 
Disk has three elevated crests barred with orange-red lines. 
Syn. Coelogyne Schilleriana. 
POGONTA 
A genus of terrestrial orchids of botanical interest only. There are a few native 
species, found chiefly in the coastal districts of North Queensland. They grow 
from small underground tubers from which spring leafless scapes with sheathing 
scales. After the flowers have fallen leaves are developed. The flowers are small, 
with more or less connivent sepals and petals, so that they do not expand widely. 
A compost of sand, leaf-mould and dried dung will serve. The following are the 
local species: — 
POGONIA DALLACHYANA. Native of North Queensland. 
Stems up to 6 inches high, with a few sheathing scales. Flowers are usually two 
or three on each stem, and are about an inch long. 
POGONIA HOLOCHILA. Native of North Queensland. 
Stems up to 10 inches high with a few scales. Up to half-a-dozen tiny flowers 
over half an inch long. The labellum is three-lobed, the disk having a bearded 
line running from it to the centre of the middle lobe. 
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