548 orchid-geowee's manual. 



P. Hookeriana, Moore. — This species may be distinguished 

 from all its congeners by the circumstance that it produces 

 its leaves and flowers at the same time, which is unusual in 

 the genus. The pseudobulbs are about an inch long, ovoid, 

 smooth, not grooved or covered with a network. The stems 

 grow some three to five inches high, each bearing one leaf 

 and a solitary flower. The leaf is ovate-lanceolate acuminate 

 and plicate, and the flower is expanded, about two and a half 

 inches across. The sepals and petals are elliptic lanceolate, 

 bright rose-colour, and the lip, which is convolute at the base, 

 is white, having five or six pale brown-purple spots on the 

 anterior portion, the throat being pale yellow. Two forms of 

 this species were discovered by Sir J. D. Hooker in the Hima- 

 layas, at an altitude of 7,000 to 10,000 feet. It flowers 

 in May. — Sikkim Himalaya. 



Fig.— Bot. Mag., t. 6388. 



Syi^'. — Coelogyne Hookeriana. 



P. Imniilis, Don. — A dwarf species of great beauty, having 

 dark green flask-shaped pseudobulbs clothed with fibrous 

 scales, and crowned with a lanceolate acuminate dark green 

 leaf. The peduncles grow up by the side of the pseudobulbs 

 after the leaves have ripened off", and each bears a solitary 

 flower three to four inches in diameter. The sepals and petals 

 are linear-lanceolate, spreading, blush white, and the lip, 

 which is convolute at the base, and emarginate and fimbriate 

 in front, is also blush white, traversed by six parallel fringed 

 veins, with alternating stripes of rich purplish crimson. It 

 blooms in the winter season, and lasts in beauty for two or 

 three weeks. — iV. Indian Alps, elevation 7,000 — 8,000 feet. 



'Fia.—Bot. Mag., t. 5G74 ; Paxt. Fl. Gard., ii. t. 51 ; Lem. Jard. Fl, t. 

 158; Smith, Exot. Bat., t. 98. 



Stn. — Ccelogyne humilis; Epidendrum humilis. 



P. tiumilis tricolor, Rchb. /.—A pretty and distinct form, 

 in which the sepals and petals are pale rose colour, and the 

 large expanded frilled lip is pale yellow, distinctly streaked 

 with brownish yellow in the central part, the outer portions 

 being margined with transverse blotches of the same colour. 

 It flowers in January and February. — Indian Alps. 

 Fig.— Orchid Album,m. t. 102. 



P. lagenaria, Lindley. — A very handsome brilliantly- 

 coloured dwarf species, with clustered wrinkled broadly 

 flask-shaped pseudobulbs, which are flattened below the 



