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P. pr86C0X "WallicMana, Lindley. — A truly handsome dwarf 

 plant, " quite a gem," with large turbinate dark green pseudo- 

 bulbs, mottled with paler green warts and brown scales ; they 

 have been compared as to form and colour to a truffle. The 

 leaves, which grow up with the bulbs, and ripen off before 

 flowering time, are lance-shaped, and plaited. The plants 

 produce their large solitary flowers on radical scapes in 

 October and November, and last two weeks in beauty ; the 

 colour is a deep magenta-purple, the sepals and narrower 

 petals lanceolate, and the lip of the same colour, decorated 

 with a broad streak of yellow on its disk, and traversed by 

 five parallel ridges of white tubercles, a few deep crimson 

 stains appearing in the throat, and the apex being toothed 

 and two-lobed. The blossoms are three or four inches across. 

 — India : Pundua, Khasya. 



YlG.—Faxton, Mag. Bot., vi. 25, with tab. ; Wall. PI. Asiat. Rar., i. t. 54 ; 

 Bot. Reg., 1840, t, 24; Jennings, Orch., t. 47, fig. 2, 

 Syn. — Calogyne Wallichiana ; Pleione Wallichiana. 



P. Reiclieilbaclliaiia, Moore. — A very beautiful and distinct 

 species of this exceedingly handsome genus. The large pitcher- 

 shaped pseudobulbs, which are constricted below the middle, 

 are longitudinally six to eight-lobed ; the lobes which form 

 rounded prominences at the widest part, are of a very dark 

 green reticulated with brown lines ; and by their side appear 

 the scapes, each bearing one or two large flowers, of which 

 the narrow oblong sepals are rosy lilac, with paler edges, the 

 narrower petals are paler, with a bar of rosy lilac down the 

 centre, and the lip is white, the dilated front lobe ciliato- 

 dentate, bifid, the disk bearing three keels which are crested 

 with papillose teeth, short Hues of rosy crimson intervening 

 between the veins in front, and a few spots of the same colour 

 being scattered over the surface. This very rare species 

 ought to be in every collection, — Moulmein. 



P. ScMlleriana, Bchb. f. — Avery pretty species, peculiar in 

 the genus for producing its foliage and flowers simultaneously, 

 in which respect it accords with the otherwise very distinct 

 P. Hookeriana. In this plant the pseudobulbs are very 

 small, obpyriform clustered, pale green and somewhat pitted. 

 The short peduncles support a pair of lanceolate obscurely 

 nervose leaves about three inches long, and a solitary flower, 

 of which the dorsal sepal is oblong acute, quite erect, and an 

 inch and a half long, while the two lateral ones are considerably 



