PLEIONE MACULATA. 
— 
[Puate 503. Fic. 1.] 
Nulive of Northern India, Khasia and Assam. 
Terrestrial. Pseudobulbs round, depressed, tuberculate at the base, glossy dark 
green, infested with the imbricating bases of the decayed leaves. Leaves produced 
before the flowers, lanceolate, plicate, six inches long. Flowers two inches across, 
solitary, produced from the side of the pseudobulbs on short peduncles; sepals and 
petals similar, linear-lanceolate, acute, white; lip oblong, three-lobed, white, the sidc 
lobes narrow, folded over the column, marked inside with oblique purple lines; front 
lobe broad, ovate, retuse, waved, and barred with crimson-purple at the margin ; the 
yellow disc bears over its whole length, five elevated fringed lamellae’ with purple 
lines between. Obolumn slender, semi-terete, white with two red streaks in front, 
the apex dilated into a petaloid white hood, toothed on each side. 
PLEIoNE MacuLata, Lindley, Pazxton’s Flower Garden, ii, t. 39, fig. 1. Veitch’s 
Manual of Orchidaceous Plants, vi., p. 56. Williams’ Orchid Growers’ Manual, 
7th edition, p. 684. 
CoELOGYNE MACULATA, Lindley, Genera and Species of Orchidaceous Plants, p. 43. 
Wallich, Plantae asiaticae rariores, i., t. 53. Folia Orchidacea, Art. Coelogyne, No. 
40. Botanical Magazine, t. 4691. Flore des Serres, t. 1470. Lemaire, Le Jardin 
Fleuriste, t. 93. 
GompHostyLis canpipa, Wallich, unpublished drawing in Kew Herbarium. 
This little gem belongs to a genus of Orchids which we regret to say is much 
neglected by Orchid growers. Why this is the case we cannot surmise, as Pleiones 
are very accommodating, taking up but little room and producing a profusion of 
flowers at a time of the year when they are most valuable; it may be on account 
of their habit of flowering without the leaves. This drawback, however, may be 
obviated by the introduction of a few Ferns into the house where the plants are 
flowering, which intermixed with the plants in flower will produce a charming effect. 
Pleione maculata was first found by Mr. Simon, and sent by him to the Royal 
Gardens, Kew, from Khasia and Assam, where he found it growing on rocks, 
Pleiones are included by some authors under Coelogyne, from which genus they 
differ but slightly ; the habit of growth is, however, quite different, being deciduous. 
They are commonly called Indian Crocus, and form a pretty feature in the Indian 
Alps, where they flower most profusely. There is a very beautiful variety of this 
called Virginea, with the lip pure white, saving the yellow stain in the throat the 
purple lines being entirely absent. 
Pleione maculata should be grown in a pot, in 4 mixture of loam, peat and 
