from various warm parts of the East Coast; and a P. Carront. 
Of these he says, P. australis and leucopheus have to be further 
compared with P. grandifolius, Lour. ; implying that the two 
former are not satisfactorily established. Judging from the 
published figures of P. grandifolius (Tab. nost. 1924, Bletia 
Tankervillie), and of P. bicolor, Lindl. (Tab. nost. 4078), I 
should not be surprised if these, together with the Australian 
species and P. Blumei, proved to be all varieties of one plant, 
differing in the length of the spur; and of which P. Wallichii, 
Wall. (Pl. As. Rar. t. 158) is a form, with a narrower mid-lobe 
to the lip. In this case the species would have a wide dis- 
tribution, from Ceylon and China through the Malay to the 
' Pacific Islands. 
P. Blumei, var. Bernaysii, whether a species or variety, 
differs from all the above in the sulphur-coloured inner sur- 
face of the petals, sepals, and lip; its tending to a triandrous 
column, which it shares with P. Blumez, is rather an abnormal 
condition of that organ than a specific character. The spur 
is shorter than in the figure of grandifolius quoted above. 
P. veratrifolius, Lindl., of Silhet, is stated to be yellow 
flowered, and Blume describes a P. flavus from Java, so the 
colour is not peculiar to P. Bernaysii. 
This beautiful plant was communicated from the stoves of 
Messrs. Veitch, with whom it flowered early in the present 
year. It was named Berzaysii by Dr. Rowland, in compli- 
ment to A. Bernays, Esq., one of the most active promoters 
of the Acclimatization Society of its native country, Queens- 
land, and a valued correspondent of Kew. 
_Descr. Pseudo-bulé as large as a potato. Leaves one and 
a half to two feet long, similar to those of P. grandifolius. 
Flowering-stem and spike nearly three feet high, the latter 
many-flowered ; flowers crowded, four inches in diameter, 
nearly white externally, sulphur-yellow within. Sepals and © 
petals lanceolate, acuminate. Lip about as long as the petals ; 
convolute portion sulphur yellow; lateral lobes rounded, 
very short-waved, terminal white, nearly orbicular, apiculate, 
margin slightly recurved, waved, yellow on the disk, white 
towards the margin ; spur one quarter the length of the lip, 
conical, curved. Column pubescent on the front and back, as 
is the anther.—J/. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Column; 2, lip :—both magnified. 
