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whitish, convolute at the base, the large expanded front lobe emarginate, the 

 central part yellow, traversed by five bearded ridges, and the broad margin 

 much crisped, white with transverse bars and blotches of deep purple-crimson ; 

 the throat is yellow with a few crimson stripes. It flowers in January and 

 February, when the other kinds are over, and continues a long tiine in 

 perfection, if the blossoms are kept dry. — Mountains of India. 



Fig.— Bot. Mag., t. 5370 ; Paxton, Fl. Gard., ii. t. 39, f. 2 ; L'lU. Sort., t. 510 ; 

 More des Serves, t. 2386 ; Zem. Jard. Fl., t. 93 ; Jennings, Orcli., t. 47, f. 1 ; Warner, 

 Sel. Oreli. PI., i. 1. 17 ; Pmjdt, Les Orch., t. 36 ; Batem. Second Cent. Orcli. PL, t. 107 ; 

 Veitch's Man. Orcli. PI., vi. p. 56. 



Syn. — Coelogyne lageaaria. 



P. MACULATA, Lindl. — A beautiful dwarf Orchid, with roundish de- 

 pressed pseudobulbs, tuberculate at the base, dark green, glossy, and bearing 

 brown imbricating scales ; the leaves, produced before the flowers, are lanceolate 

 plicate, 6 inches long ; and the flowers are solitary, 2 inches across, on short 

 peduncles which spring from the base of the bulbs ; the sepals and petals are 

 narrow lanceolate, spreading, white, the lip also white, oblong, the basal part 

 incurved, marked with oblique purple lines, the front lobe ovate, retuse, wavy, 

 the disk yellow, with five elevated fringed veins having purple lines between, 

 the margins wavy and boldly cross-barred with crimgon-purple. It blooms in 

 October and November, continuing three or four weeks in perfection. — N. India ; 

 Khasia, Assam, 4,000 to 5,000 feet. ' 



Fig.— Bot. Mag., t. 4691 ; Wall. PL Asiat. Bar., i. t. 53 ; Paxton, Fl. Gard., ii. 

 t. 39, f. 1 ; Flore des Serres, t. 1470 ; Lem. Jard. Fl., t. 93. 



Syn. — Coelogyne maculata. 



P. MACULATA ALBA — See P. maculata vikgikea. 



P. MACULATA ARTHURIANA, Yeitch.—A. very pretty variety, with lovely 

 flowers, having one or two long and conspicuous lines of mauve on the petals, 

 with a deep purple-mauve border to the anterior lobe of the lip. — N. India. 



P. MACULATA VIRGINEA, JJcM. /.— This delightful little gem was sent to 

 us by W. H. Scott, Esq., Nunfield, Dumfries, in November, 1887. The flowers 

 are somewhat smaller than those of the type ; sepals and petals rather narrow, 

 white ; lip white, stained with yellow on the basilar part ; there are no purple 

 spots or lines on the lip. Mr. Scott found this growing in a pan with the 

 ordinary P. maoulata ; but this variety is constant, as it has also appeared in 

 the collection of W. S. Kimball, Esq., of Rochester, New York, and was 

 exhibited by G. W. Law-Schofield, of Rawtenstall, Manchester, before the 

 Royal Horticultural Society in November, 1893, when it deservedly received an 

 award of merit. — N. India. 



Syn. — P. maoulata alba. 



P. PRAECOX, Bon. — A most distinct and beautiful species, of dwarf habit 

 like its congeners, with pale mottled brownish purple turbinate pseudobulbs, 

 covered with a strong veining of loose network, and surmounted by a solitary 

 broadly lanceolate membranaceous plaited leaf, which decays before the 

 appearance of .the scape; the latter springs from the side of the pseudobulb 



