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conical neck, and are light green covered with brown spots, 

 which give a netted appearance to the surface ; these are 

 surmounted by a solitary lanceolate leaf, which becomes 

 matured and falls away before the flowers are developed. 

 The flower scapes spring from the base of the pseudobulbs, 

 and are about three inches high, bearing a solitary blossom 



PLEIONE LAGENAEIA. 



three inches across ; the sepals and petals are lanceolate, 

 spreading, lilac rose, and the lip is white or whitish, convolute 

 at the base, the large expanded front lobe emarginate, the 

 central part yellow traversed by five bearded ridges, and the 

 broad margin much crisped, white with transverse bars and 



