Ione
(from Ione, one of the Nereids). ORD. Orchideoe. A genus containing three or four species, now referred to Bulbophyllum (which see for cultivation). I. paleacea (scaly).* fl. 1in. long, drooping, in many-flowered, erect spikes; sepals pale green, red-striped; petals pale yellow-green, small, rounded, erose; lip red-brown, trowel-shaped, as long as the sepals, erose; column short; scape erect, stiff, slender, longer than the leaf. October. l. dark green, 6in. to 8in. long, 1in. broad, linear, obtuse, narrowed into a deeply channelled base, but hardly petioled. Pseudo-bulbs dark green, 1in. to 1 1/2in. long, ovoid, smooth. h. 9in. Upper Assam, 1877. (B. M. 6344.)