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entire, spurrcrl. The miflfUe lobo with ridp>s or niised crests. Column continuous 

 with tlic ovary, half roimd. PoUfU-inasses 8, nearly equal. 



P. Blumei. 



I rcjiret being unable to speak positively of this plant, and to say if it have 

 pseudo-bulljs or not, as, unfortunatelj-, I have kept no record of the fact, nor any 

 drawing, and my dried specimens consist of fiower-sturas and flowers only. Nor 

 does the drawing of Limodorum Tankcrvillix, Bot. Mikj., tab. 1924 (now Fhaim), 

 which, being closely related to it, probably grows in the same way, aiford any 

 material for deciding ; nor does the meagre description of the jilant there given. As 

 far as my recollectiou serves me, tlie leaves, which are broad lanceolate, ])ointed and 

 plicate, arise from a mass of underground librous roots, and form a sort of false stem 

 made bj- their combined bases, which is slightly swollen at the point where it touches 

 the ground. Tlie scape, or flower-stalk, springs from the side of the leaves at their 

 base, is longer than the leaves, being about 10 inches or 2 feet long. It has several 

 sheathing scales along its length at regular distances of 2 inches, and bears towards 

 the end a loose raceme of several (6-8) large handsome flowers, full 4 inches across. 

 The form of the flowers is as described above iu the genus. The lip has a short 

 curled spur at its base. Sepals and petals white outside, brownish inside. Lip 

 whitish, streaked with crimson. From Bhamo. 



TnrNiA, RM.Jil 



Epiphytal plants, with leafy fascicled stems, slightly swollen at the base, clothed 

 with alteniatc leafy slieaths fiom the bottom, enlarging upwards with normal leaves. 

 Flowers few, 2-6, terminal, each with a spathaceous bract at the base. Sepals and 

 petals lax, thin, wide-spreading, lanceolate, pointed, nearly equal. Lip parallel 

 with the column, 3-lobcd, bluntly spurred, the Literal lobes enveloping the column ; 

 middle lobe broad, wavy, crested on the disc. Column winged, somewhat hooded at 

 the top, 3-lobed, middle lobe roimded, side lobes toothed. The stigmatic aperture is 

 covered by a membrane which falls over and conceals it, very much as in Vanilla. 

 Pollen-masses 4, or, by division, 8, united by a thick fleshy stipes. Anther 2-celled, 

 each cell subdivided again into two. Species 2 or 3. 



T. AM A. 



The generic description given above may serve also generally for the specific 

 dcsciiption. The stems of this species are 6 or 10 inches long tapering to a point. 

 The leaves are alternate and two-ranked, glaucous, loug-lauceolate, pointed, and the 

 flowers arc white. 



T. Bexsoxi.e. 



Same as above, except that the flowers are larger, 3 inches long, and purple. 

 The lip is of a much deeper colour than the rest of the flower, and has its disc 

 ornamented with yellow raised and crested lines. Certainly a handsome plant, but 

 disappointing, owing to the flaccid texture and drooping habit of the flowers, which 

 hardl}- sliow their beauty unless raised and o]icncd by the hand. Both tliis species 

 and ttie foregoing are epiphytal on the perpendicular surface of trees and rocks at an 

 elevation of 4-5000 ftset. Althougli known to me for some time previously, Colonel 

 Benson was fortunate in being the first to seud it to England. 



T. XAXTHOPHLEBIA (pULCnR,^).' 



' Thunia pclchra, Rchh. /., " Gavd. Chrou." 1S81. — " A glorious spocimon of this is at hand 

 from Mr. W. Hull. It lias a ratlier nixiilinp;, rich inllori'sceuco of 10 tine Honors, and tlifso make one 

 tliink of Ccclogyiie cristata in tluir pure \vhit<'ue5s. Tile lip has yelhnv and brown crests, but very little 

 of those is to be seen as long as you do not expand the tlon-ers artilicially. The ffeniis Tlnima was 

 established by the writer of these lines, in Dr. I.iudlev's lifetime, in Von Sehleehteiidal and Von .Mold's 

 Mulaniscke Ziiliiiig, 18.32, p. 704, having been reganled as I'haius till then: it Ims been universally 

 admitted. Lot us now imajriiic somebody had refused its iieceptance, and declared it once more a I'haius 

 and not a Sobralioiil Arrthiistrc, then it should have waxy and not amylaceous pidlen. What is a waxy 

 poUinium ? The one that, by heini; covered with a layer of exiiia, is fit to resist the entrance 

 of wat«r a good while, and is hard and stringy, usually blight yellow, seldom green, hyaciuth-red, or 



