PACHYSTOMA. 



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PachYSTOMA, Blume. 

 [Tribe Epidendrtse, sub'ribe Eriese.) 



A small genus of Orchids allied to Tpsea, and producing 

 from the rhizomes one or two-leaved pseudobulbs, often 

 developed later on, and having simple leafless scapes bearing 

 the flowers in short racemes. There are about ten species 

 found in West Tropical Africa and the Malayan Archipelago. 

 Ipsea is included in the genus by some authorities. 



Culture. — This plant is best grown in a pot in a compost 

 of fibrous peat, and sphagnum moss, and with good drainage. 

 It should be grown in the East Indian house as near the light 

 as possible. 



PACHYSTOMA THOMSO^IANUM. 



P. Thomsonianum, Rchb. f. — A very pretty dwarf- growing 

 plant, with small depressed orbicular tunicate pseudobulbs, 

 solitary erect elliptic lanceolate plicate leaves, and erect slender 

 scapes from the base of the bulbs bearing from one to three 



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