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P. HUMILIS ALBATA, JRihb. /.—A distinct and pretty varietj-, with snow- 

 white sepals and petals, lip also white, but having light purple radiating lines ; 

 there is a conspicuous orange spot on each side of the anterior portion of the lip. 



P. HUMILIS TRICOLOR, Rchh. /.—A pretty and distinct form, in which the 

 sepals and petals are pale rose colour, and the large expanded frilled lip is pale 

 yellow, distinctly streaked with brownish-yellow in the central part, the outer 

 portions being margined with transverse blotches of the same colour. It 

 flowers in January and February. — Indi(tn Alps. 



Yia.—OfcJiid Alhiim, iii. t. 102. 



P. LAGENARIA, Liiidl. — A very handsome brilliantly coloured dwarf species, 

 with clustered wrinkled broadly flask-shaped pseudobulbs, which are flattened 



PLEIOKE LAGENAEIA. 



below the conical neck, and are light green covered with brown spots, which 

 give a netted appearance to the surface ; these are surmounted by a solitary 

 lanceolate leaf, which becomes matured and falls away before the flowers 

 are developed; the flower scapes spring from the base of the pseudobulbs, 

 . and are about 3 inches high, bearing a solitary blossom 3 inches across ; the 

 sepals and petals are lanceolate, spreading, lilac-rose, and the lip is white or 



