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free in growth. The flowers of this species continue for several 

 weeks in full perfection. The finest display of Phalmnopsis I 

 have ever seen is in the collection of R. Warner, Esq., who 

 has a magnificent lot of specimens. Of P. Schilleriana alone I 

 have seen upwards of twelve hundred expanded blooms at one 

 time. Mr. Warner sent a specimen of this plant to the 

 St. Petersburgh Exhibition in 1869, which had one hundred 

 and twenty expanded blooms upon it, and presented a most 

 glorious spectacle. 



P. sumatrana. — A remarkable plant from Sumatra, flowered 

 for the first time in this country by J. Day, Esq. in 1865 ; 

 leaves pointed, six or seven inches long, somewhat fleshy and 

 bright-green in colour ; sepals and petals yellowish white, 

 banded or barred with streaks of reddish brown; lip white, 

 spotted with orange, and streaked down the centre with violet. 

 It requires the same treatment as the other species. 



PiLUMNA. 



P.fragrans. — A deliciously sweet-scented plant, very like 

 Trichojrilia in habit and appearance. Its flowers are produced 

 on spikes three or four together, the sepals and petals being 

 greenish white, the lip pure white. It succeeds well in the 

 cool-house, and is best grown in a pot, with peat and moss, 

 and good drainage ; a good supply of moisture is requisite 

 during the growing season, but when at r^st less will sufiice. 

 It should be well elevated above the rim of the pot. 



Pleione. 

 A genus of pretty small-growing deciduous plants, with 

 flask-like pseudobulbs and light green membranous leaves. 

 They are considered by some entitled to generic rank ; other 

 authors, however, make them only a section of the genus 

 Ccelogyne, from which indeed they seem to difier but slightly. 



