152 ORCHIDS FOR EVERYONE 



Other Species 



Of less value for general purposes, the following have, however, 

 many good points to commend them, and where there is ample 

 room they are worthy of being included in a collection : — 



O. ALTISSIMUM, O. AUREUM, O. CANDIDUM (white), O. CaRTHA- 



GiNENSE, O. Cavendishianum (these last two need stove heat), 



O. CURTITM, O. DASYSTYLE, O. EXCAVATUM, O. JoNESIANUM 



(stove), O. Lanceanum (stove), O. Limminghei (a miniature 

 species), O. loxense, O. luridum, O. monachichum [0. macranthum 

 group), O. OLIVACEUM, O. Phalaenopsis, O. pr^textum, 

 O. PUMiLUM, O. serratum (0. macranthum group), and O. super- 

 biens {p. macranthum group). 



PHAIUS 



The Phaius are extremely accommodating plants, with one or 

 two exceptions, and there is no good reason why anyone with an 

 ordinary plant stove, or even an intermediate house, should not 

 succeed with many of them, even though not acquainted with 

 Orchids as a class. The terrestrial species have bold leaves about 

 two feet long, and erect spikes rising a yard or so high. The 

 flowers are of good size ; the sepals and petals are fairly equal in 

 size and colour, and spread out so as to form, roughly, a semi- 

 circle, with the lower horizontal sepals forming the base line or 

 diameter ; the lip is more or less tubular and brightly coloured. 

 The tropical, epiphytal species, P. Humblotii and P. simulans (or 

 P. tuberculosus^ as it is still called), need a warm, moist house, and 

 a compost of fibrous peat and sphagnum ; the latter has ascending 

 rhizomes, and should be fastened to a piece of tree-fern stem or 

 a teak raft. The terrestrial species are best potted in the Spring, 



