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PAXTON'S FLOWER GARDEN. 



The habit of these plants is so peculiar that it seems desirable to separate them from Ccelogyne, if 

 any character can be found ; and we think the membranous bracts, and strongly saccate lip with 

 fringed veins of Tleione may be taken to offer a sufficient distinction from Ccelogyne with its horny 

 or cartilaginous deciduous bracts, and lip merely concave at the base, with two or three continuous 

 crests rising up from the veins. Perhaps too a more careful comparison than we have been able to 

 make of the pollen of the two genera may furnish peculiarities of a more important kind. 



At all events Pleiones constitute a group which can never be intermingled with the species of 

 Ccelogyne proper. The following is an enumeration of the species now known : — 



Pleione D. Bon. 



1. Pleione macuhda. Piute 13 of this work. 



2. lat/enaria. „ 



3. WaUichiana (alias Gjelogyne Wullichiana Lindley.) 



4 prtecox D. Don. A fine species with large purple flowers and a fringed lip. 



5. humills of this plate. 



6. diphy la ; pseudobulbis oblongis n>edio constrictis, folds geminis subcoriaceis acuminatis, pedmieulo 



fiore ter longiore, bractea, obtusa inflata apiculata. ovarii longitudine, labello obtuse trilobo 

 eniarginato, venis fimbriatis 5-7 interrupts altera brevi adjecta utrinque juxta apicem. 



We have specimens of this plant from Mr. Griffith, who found it on the Kbasyah 

 Mountains, in shaded rocky places at Churra : and whose memorandum appears in his 

 Itinerary Notes, p. 44, No. 684. From this it appears that the leaves are somewhat 

 coriaceous, and grow in pairs on the summit of oblong pseudobulbs, contracted in the 

 middle, and spotted with purple on a green ground. The flowers are said to be very 

 handsome, and white ; the lip being stained and lined inside with violet and crimson, and 

 decorated with from seven to nine lines of yellow fringes. 



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