Horticultural Society in August, 1910. Since then it 
has found its way into various collections and has 
- flowered on several occasions. The plant from which 
our figure has been made was obtained for Kew in 1910 
from Messrs. Charlesworth and Co., Haywards Heath. 
It grows well and flowers annually at Kew in March in 
a tropical house under the treatment suitable for most 
species of Dendrobium and Epidendrum. The flowers of 
P. paniculata are borne in a dense panicle; the yellow 
sepals and petals striped with orange-red, and the reddish 
orange lip, combine in rendering it a striking object. 
Description.—Herb, epiphytic. Stems erect, 3-6 in. 
long, subterete, 3-4-foliate. Leaves oblong, shortly 
bluntly 2-lobed, coriaceous, 5-7 in. long, 1-1} in. wide. 
Inflorescence terminal, pedunculate, 6-10 in. long, copi- 
ously panicled, clothed below with 2-3 oblong sheaths ; 
bracts minute; pedicels slender, ~; in. long. Lowers 
numerous, small. Sepals: posterior oblong, somewhat 
obtuse, #-¢% in. long; lateral ovate, wider than the 
posterior ; all yellow with orange stripes. Petals linear, 
blunt, {—} in. long, yellow with a central orange stripe. 
Lip orange, entire, recurved, oblong, rather blunt, {—} in. 
long, its margin undulate. Column short and broad. 
Pollinia 4, ovoid; stipe oblong ; gland scale-like. 
Fig. 1, a single flower; 2, petal; 3, lip; 4, column; 5, anther-cap; 6, pol- 
taal sais ; 
ee 7, sketch of an entire plant:—all enlarged except 7, which is much 
