folded into a funnel round the column. The front lobe is broad, undulated at 
the edge, creamy-yellow flushed with rose, the colour deeping at the apex. Flowers 
in Summer and lasts some weeks in beauty. 
PHAIUS BLUMEI, a variety of P. Tankervilliae. Native of Java. 
This handsome plant is very similar in habit to P. Tankervilliae, so well known to 
us. The pseudobulbs, short and roundish, are produced from a creeping rhizome. 
Leaves lanceolate and plaited, about 2 feet long. Flower scapes grow from base 
of pseudobulbs and reach a height of from 2 to 4 feet. They are terminated in a 
raceme of numerous flowers, each about 4 inches across, with narrow, pointed 
sepals and petals olive-brown in colour. Side lobes of the lip yellow and curled 
over the column, while the front lobe is large and spreading and is crimson with 
a yellow edge. Flowers in Autumn and lasts well. 
Var. Assamicus.—A variable variety, its sepals and petals ranging from light 
yellow to red-brown, and the lip from pale yellow edged with white to orange 
bordered with purple. 
Var. Sanderianus.—Sepals and petals bronze, lip larger than the type, bronze 
with a wide band of white round the edge, and a large, dark pink blotch. 
PHAIUS HUMBLOTII. Native of Madagascar. 
One of the loveliest of the genus, with stout pseudobulbs and typical, plaited 
leaves. The erect flower spike carries a number of large, handsome flowers with 
rosy-pink sepals and petals, blotched with white and red. The brown lip is large, 
the side lobes curled inwards and projecting forward, the middle lobe being spread- 
ing and emarginate, with a fleshy callus on the crest terminating in front in a 
small keel. Flowers in Summer and lasts well. 
Var. albiflora.—Sepals and petals pure white with a purple lip. 
PHAIUS MACULATUS, a variety of P. flavus. Native of Northern India and 
Japan. 
A handsome species with ovate, furrowed pseudobulbs each about 2 inches high. 
Leaves long, comparatively narrow, pointed and prettily variegated with large, 
round, yellow spots on a dark green base. The flower stems grow to a height of 
2 feet and carry a cluster of about a dozen flowers, each from 2 to 3 inches across, 
with sepals and petals oblong and clear yellow. Lip yellow, the edges of the middle 
lobe being streaked with reddish brown. Flowers in Spring and lasts some weeks. 
(Syn. Bletia Wood fordii.) 
PHAIUS SIMULANS. Native of Madagascar. 
A distinct species with small, slender pseudobulbs growing from a rhizome. 
Leaves from 6 to 9 inches long, plaited and pointed. Flower spikes erect, carry- 
ing a few handsome flowers each about 24 inches wide, with pure white sepals 
_and petals, the latter being slightly broader than the sepals and overlapping them. 
The lip is three-lobed, lateral lobes yellow, thickly dotted with brownish-crimson, 
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