PLEIONE. 685 



and boars one showy flower, which is fully 3 inches across, and saccate at the 

 base ; the lanceolate sepals and the smaller petals are deep rose colour, and the 

 lip, which is prominent and 2 inches long, is blush- white, the basal part connivent 

 over the column, the front portion beautifully fringe-toothed, and the disk 

 yellow furnished with five toothed keels or crests reaching nearly to the apex, 

 and a few yellow and rose-coloured spots. It produces its blossoms in November 

 and December.— X India .- Klnuia at 4,700 feet, Nepaul at 7,500feet, and SiH-im 

 at 5,800 feet elevation. 



Fig.— Paj-tiiii, Miuj. Bot, xiv. p. 7, with tab.; But. JWoj., t. 4-196 (as WallicJii i) ; 

 Smit/i, Exut. But., t. 97; Zem. Jard. m.. t. 13 ; GaHenflora,X.. 283 (as M'alUcliiana) . 

 >?YX. — (\ielogyne pravciw ; Epidendnim praeco.e. 



P. PRAECOX WALLICHIANA, Li,idL—X truly handsome dwarf plant, "quite 

 a gem," with large turbinate dark green pseudobulbs, mottled with paler green 

 warts and brown scales ; they have been compared as to form and colour to a 

 truffle ; the leaves, which grow up with the bulbs, and ripen off before flowering 

 time, are lance-shaped, and plaited ; the plants produce their large solitary 

 flowers on radical scapes in October and November, and last two weeks in 

 beauty ; the colour is a deep magenta-purple, the sepals and uarrower petals 

 lanceolate, and the lip of the same colour, decorated with a broad streak of 

 yellow on its disk, and traversed by five parallel ridges of white tubercles, a 

 few deep crimson stains appearing in the throat, and the apex being toothed 

 and two-lobed. The blossoms are 3 or 4 inches across. — India : Pundua, Kimsia. 



TlG.—Pa.ftuit. Mnq. Bof.. vi. p. 25, with tab. ; Wall. PI. A.iiat. Ear., i. t. 54 ; Bot. 

 Br,/.. 1840, t. 24 ; Jennings, Orch., t. 47, f. 2. 



8rx. — Coelogiinf Vallioliiana ; Pleionf Wallichiann. 



P. REICHENBACHIANA, Moore. — A very beautiful and distinct species of 

 this exceedingly handsome genus. The large pitcher-shaped pseudobulbs, which 

 are constricted below the middle, are longitudinally six- to eight-lobed; the 

 lobes, which form rounded prominences at the widest part, are of a very dark 

 green reticulated with brown lines ; and by their side appear the scapes, each 

 bearing one or two large flowers, of which the narrow oblong sepals are rosy- 

 lilac, with paler edges, the narrower petals are paler, ■with a bar of rosy-hlao 

 down the centre, and the lip is white, the dilated front lobe ciliato-dentate, bifid, 

 the disk bearing three keels which ai-e crested with papillose teeth, short lines 

 of rosy-crimson intervening between the veins in front, and a few spots of the 

 same colour being scattered over the surface. This rare species ought to be 

 in every collection. — MouhneiH. 



Syx. — Coi'Jogyne Ri'iclienhacli tana. 



P. SCHILLERIANA, Rclib.f. — A very pretty species, peculiar in the genus for 

 producing its foliage and flowers simultaneously, in which respect it accords 

 with the otherwise very distinct P. Hooheriana. In this plant the pseudobulbs 

 are very small, obpjTiform clustered, pale green and somewhat pitted ; the short 

 peduncles support a pair of lanceolate obscui-ely nervose leaves about 3 inches 

 long, and a solitary flower, of which the dorsal sepal is oblong acute, quite erect, 

 and \\ inch long, while the two lateral ones are considerably narrower, somewhat 

 falcate, and directed downwards ; the petals are very narrow linear, also directed 

 downwards, all these parts being of a clear tawny-yellow ; the lip is broad and 



