and forming a tube about the column. Central lobe, smaller than the laterals, is 
roundish and divided in front, the edges being gracefully waved. In colour it is 
white spotted with magenta. It flowers in Summer. Much warmer treatment is 
required than for the other species, and it should be grown in a glasshouse in 
Brisbane where it can have a shady but moist position. It should be potted with 
only a very thin layer of osmunda and a little sphagnum moss. 
PHAIUS TANKERVILLIAE var. Bernaysii. Native of Queensland. 
This native species was originally considered by Mr. F. M. Bailey to be a variety 
of P. Tankervilliae, with which it is often found growing, but Reichenbach, the 
younger, classified it as a variety of P. Blumei, and it is generally listed as such. 
In growth it resembles P. Blumei. The sepals and petals are lanceolate and sharply 
pointed, white on the outside and a light yellow inside. Side lobes of the lip 
are deep yellow, the middle lobe white with a yellow centre. The flower has a 
conical. curved, greenish spur. Flowers at various times but generally in Summer 
and Autumn. 
(Syn. P. Bernaysii.) 
PHAIUS TANKERVILLIAE. Native of China and Australia. 
This species is well known to most Australian orchid growers. Unfortunately the 
spread of cultivation has destroyed most of the natural stands of this plant, so 
that it is now comparatively rarely met with. In fact, quite often when someone 
stumbles across a patch it is thought to be a new orchid. However, a good 
number of plants of this and P. Bernaysii are growing on Moreton and Stradbroke 
Islands, where they are strictly protected under the Native Plants Act. Pseudo- 
bulbs are large and round, prominently marked with circular scars. Leaves large, 
oblong, lanceolate and pointed, prominently nerved and dark green in colour. 
Flower spikes spring from the base of the pseudobulbs and bear a large number 
of 4-inch flowers, with oblong lanceolate sepals and petals, white outside and 
chocolate-brown inside. The lip is tubular, whitish, spreading at the apex, with a 
yellow throat and disk. The sides are flushed with crimson. Flowers in Winter 
and Spring and lasts well. This plant will grow quite well when planted in a 
sunny place in the garden or in pots in an airy bushhouse. In its native state it is 
usually found on the margins of swamps where the water reaches and sometimes 
covers the bases of the plants in Summer and dries away in Winter. 
Var. Rowanae.—Sepals and petals mottled pink. 
Var. superbum.—tnside of the sepals and petals Pe yellow, the lip being 
reddish-purple fringed with rose-pink. 
(Syn. P. grandifolius.) 
PHAIUS TUBERCULOSUS. Native of Madagascar. 
A fine species which grows in tufts with stems springing from a rhizome. The 
leaves are similar to those of P. simulans. Flower spikes spring with the new leaves 
and carry about half-a-dozen 24-inch flowers, which resemble those of P. simulans 
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