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dark rose-colour, and the elep;antly fringed lip is of the same colour with yellow- 

 blotches in which are several brownish-crimson spots ; the crests are pale 

 yellow. — India. 



Syn. — Codogyne concolor. 



P. HOOKERIANA, Moore. — This species may be distinguished from all its 

 congeners by the circumstance that it produces its leaves and flowers at the 

 same time, which is unusual in the genus. The pseudobulbs are about 1 inch 

 long, ovoid, smooth, not grooved or covered with a network ; the stems grow 

 some 3 to 6 inches high, each beariiig one leaf and a solitary flower ; the leaf 

 is ovate-lanceolate acuminate and plicate, and the flower is expanded, about 

 2| inches across; the sepals and petals are elliptic lanceolate, bright rose 

 colour, and the lip, which is convolute at the base, is white, having five or six 

 pale brown purple spots on the anterior portion, the throat being pale yellow. 

 Two forms of this species were discovered by Sir J. D. Hooker in the Himalayas 

 at an altitude of 7,000 to 10,000 feet. It flowers in May.— SiVctiDi Bimalaya. 



FiG.—Bot. Mag., t. 6388 ; Lindcnia, viii. t. 363. 



Syn. — Coelogyne Hoohermna . 



PLBIOKE HDMILIS. 



P. HUMILIS, Boiij — A dwarf species of great beauty, having dark green 

 flask-shaped pseudobulbs clothed with fibrous scales, and crowned with a 

 lanceolate acuminate dark green leaf ; the peduncles grow up by the side of 

 the pseudobulbs after the leaves have ripened off, and each bears a solitary 

 flower 3 to 4 inches in diameter ; the sepals and petals are linear-lanceolate, 

 spreading, blush white, and the lip, -which is convolute at the base, and 

 omarginate and fimbriate in front, is also blush-white, traversed by six 

 parallel fringed veins, with alternating stripes of rich purplish-crimson. It 

 blooms in the winter season, and lasts in beauty for two or three weeks. — 

 JV. Indian Alps, elevation 7,000 to 8,000 feet. 



Fig.— JStft. Mag., t. 5674; Paxton, Fl. Ganl., ii. t. ")! ; Lcm. -In r il. FL, t. 158; 

 Smith, Exot. Sot., t. 98 ; VeitcU's Man. Orch. PL, vi. p. 55. 



Syn. — Coelogyne Jtum/lis; Exndendrwm humilt: 



