Tas. 7307. 
PHAJUS tuseroutosvs. 
Native of Madagascar. 
Nat. Ord. Oncuipza.—Tribe EripEnpREz. 
Genus Puasus, Lour.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 512), 
Puasus (Gastrorchis) tuberculosus ; candice crasso articulato, foliis subfascicu- 
latis lanceolatis attenuato-acuminatis in petiolum pseudobulbo parvo 
ovoideo articulatum insidentem angustatis, pedunculo e caudice ori- 
undo elato pluri-vaginato, racemo erecto multifloro, bracteis ovato- 
lanceolatis ovaria zquantibus, floribus 3-poll. latis, Sepalis petalisque 
ovato-oblongis obtusiusculis albidis, labelli tubo flavido subcylindraceo 
basi in gibbum rotundatum inflato, limbo dilatato 3-lobo, lobis laterali- — 
bus amplis auriculeformibus recurvis aureis rufo creberrime et grosse 
bare marginibus crenato-lobulatis, lobo terminali rotundato 2- 
obulato crispato-crenato albo purpureo maculato, disco carinis 3 crassis 
abbreviatis aureis ornato, columna incurva exalata apicem versus sparse 
setulosa, polliniis elongatis. 
P. tuberculosus, Blume Orchid. Archip. Ind. p. 13, t. xi.; Mus. Bot. Iugd. 
Bat, vol. ii. p. 181. Warner, Orchid. Album. vol. ii. t. 91. Godefr. 
Orchidophile, p. 93 cwm Ic. Veitch Man. Orchid. Part vi. p.13, ewm Ie. 
Rolfe in Lindenia, vol. vii. p. 79, t. 326. Regel. Gartenfl.t.1339. Reichen- 
bachia, Ser. 2, vol. i. p. 7, t. 4. Hortic. Belge, 1892, p. 145. Gard. 
ae 1881, vol. i. p. 342; 1882, vol. ii. p. 565, £101; 1884, vol. i. p. 
20, f. 104, 
_ P.tuberculatus, Gard. Chron, 1881, vol. i. £. 67. 
Limodorum tuberculosum, Thouars, Orchid. Iles Austr. Afrique, t. 81. 
Bletia tuberculosa, Spreng. Syst. Veg. vol. iii. p. 744. Lindl. Gen, & Sp. 
Orchid, p. 123, * 
Decidedly the most beautiful species of the noble genus 
hajus, which is perhaps, all points considered, including 
facility of cultivation of the majority of the species, one of 
the most striking of the Order. It belongs to a small 
section of the genus, natives of Madagascar and other 
African Islands in the Indian Ocean, differing from the 
Euphaji by the gibbous spurless base of the tube of the lip. 
Though only recently introduced into cultivation, it has 
long been known to Botanists, having been described by 
Petit Thouars in 1822; and there are specimens in the » 
Aveusr Ist, 1893. 
