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blotches of deep purple -crimson ; the throat is yellow with a 

 few crimson stripes. It flowers in January and February, 

 when the other kinds are over, and continues a long time in 

 perfection, if the blossoms are kept dry. — Mountains of India. 



FlG.—Bot. Mag., t, 5370 ; Paa-^. Fl. Gard., ii. t. 39, fig. 2; lllust. Hort , 

 t. 510 ; Flore des Serres, t. 2386 ; Lem. Jard. Fleur., t. 93 ; Jennings, Orch., 

 t. 47, fig. 1 ; Warner, Set. Orch. PL, i. t. 17 ; Piiydt, Les Orch., t. 36. 



Syn. — Ccelogyne layenaria. 



P. maculata, Lindley. — A beautiful dwarf Orchid, with 

 roundish depressed pseudobulbs, tuberculate at the base, dark 

 green, glossy, and bearing brown imbricating scales. The 

 leaves, produced before the flowers, are lanceolate plicate, six 

 inches long ; and the flowers are solitary, two inches across, 

 on short peduncles which spring from the base of the bulbs. 

 The sepals and petals are narrow lanceolate, spreading, 

 white, the lip also white, oblong, the basal part incurved, 

 marked with oblique purple lines, the front lobe ovate, retuse, 

 wavy, the disk yellow, with five elevated fringed veins having 

 purple lines between, the margins wavy and boldly cross- 

 barred with crimson-purple. It blooms in October and 

 November, continuing three or four weeks in perfection. — ^. 

 India : Khasya, Assam, 4,000 — 5,000 feet. 



YiG.—Bot. Mag., t. 4691 ; Wall. PI. Asiat. Ear., i. t. .53 ; Paxt. Fl. Gard , 

 ii. t. 39, fig. 1 ; Flore des Serres, t, 1470 ; Lem. Jard. FL, t. 93. 



Syn. — Cceloygne maculata. 



P. prsecox, Don. — A most distinct and beautiful species, of 

 dwarf habit like its congeners, with pale mottled brownish 

 purple turbinate pseudobulbs, covered with a strong veining 

 of loose network, and surmounted by a solitary broadly 

 lanceolate membranaceous plaited leaf, which decays before 

 the appearance of the scape. The latter springs from the 

 side of the pseudobulb, and bears one showy flower, which is 

 fully three inches across, and saccate at the base ; the lanceo- 

 late sepals and the smaller petals are deep rose-colour, and the 

 lip, which is prominent and two inches long, is blush white, 

 the basal part connivent over the column, the front portion 

 beautifully fringe-toothed, and the disk yellow furnished with 

 five toothed keels or crests reaching nearly to the apex, and 

 a few yellow and rose-coloured spots. It produces its blossoms 

 in November and December. — N. India : Khasya, at 4,700 

 feet, Nepal at 7,500 feet, and Sihkim at 5,800 feet elevation. 



'Sm.—Paxton, Mag. Bat., xiv. 7, with tab.; Bat. Mag., t. 4496 (as 

 WaUichii) ; Smith, Exot. Bat., t. 97 ; Lem. Jard. Fl., t. 153 ; Gartenjlora, t. 

 283 (as Wallichian-ri). 



Syn, — Calogyne prwcox ; Epidendrum pracox. 



