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stricted to one or two localities of very limited extent. Ever since 

 its introduction it has been in the highest repute amongst orchid 

 amateurs on account of its beautiful flowers that are produced in 

 October and November. The specific name, from larjena, a kind of 

 jug or flagon, refers to the form of the pseudo-bulbs. 



G. (Pleione) maculata. 



Pseudo-bulbs nearly bottle-shaped, fully an inch long, the basal two- 

 thirds cylindric, the apical third conic. Leaves lanceolate, acute, plicate, 

 6— 9 inches long. Peduncles short, sheathed at the base by small 

 greenish scales, and above them by a larger membraneous bract, one 

 flowered. Flowers 2 inches in diameter ; sepals and petals spreading, 

 similar and sub-equal, lanceolate, acute, white ; lip oval-oblong, three- 

 lobed, the side lobes narrow, erect, white streaked obliquely on the inner 

 side with purple, the middle lobe spreading, undulate, with five fringed 

 longitudinal lamellae that extend to the base of the lip, white with large 

 purple marginal spots and yellow disk. Column slender, terete, white. 



Ccelogyue maculata, Lindl. Geu. et Sp. Orcli. p. 43 (1831), and in Wall. PI. 

 Asiat. rar. t. 53. Id. Fol. Orch. Ccelog. No, 40. Bot. Mag. t. 4691. Van Houtte's 

 Fl. des Serves, XIV. t. 1470 (copied from Bot. Mag.) Pleione maculata, Lindl. in 

 Paxt. Fl. Gard. II. t. 39 (1851). 



var. — Arthuriana. 



Pseudo-bulbs angulate, smaller than in the type. Flowers also smaller 



with purple lines on the petals, and with a continuous purple band 



around the front margin of the lip. 



C. maculata Arthuriana, supra. C. (Pleione) Arthuriana, Pvchb. in Gard. Chron. 

 XV. (1881), p. 40. 



Discovered by Dr. Wallich towards the end of the second decade 



of the present century on the Khasia Hills, whence it was introduced 



by our Exeter firm along with the preceding species, in 1849, through 



Thomas Lobb. In the following year it was detected by Sir J. D. 



Hooker and Dr. Thomson, also on the Khasia Hills at 4,000 — 5,000 



feet elevation, and in 1852 it was sent to the Royal Gardens at 



Kew, from Assam, by Simons. It also occurs in Sikkim at 2,500 — 3,000 



feet elevation. The variety Arthuriana was sent to us in 1881 by a 



correspondent at Rangoon, who gave no locality, and was dedicated 



by Professor Reichenbach to the memory of the late Mr. Arthur Veitch. 



The flowering season of Pleione maculata is October and November. 



0. (Pleione) prsecOX. 



Pseudo-bulbs broadly flask-shaped, about an inch in iliameter, warty, 

 mottled green and blackish brown. Leaves broadly lanceolate, 9 — 12 



