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large growth, and even when not in bloom their noble foliage 

 is extremely ornamental. If fine specimens are wanted, they 

 should be grown in pots of large size, with loam, leaf mould, 

 and rotten cow-dung, as directed in the remarks on Terrestrial 

 Orchids. They require plenty of heat and moisture at their 

 roots in the growing season, but the water should not touch 

 the young growth. Daring their period of rest they may be 

 placed in a cooler house, and should then be supplied with 

 very little water. Propagation is effected by dividing the 

 bulbs after the blooming season is past. 



P. Blumei, Lindley. — A very handsome plant, resembling 

 P. grandifoUus in its habit of growth, as it does also in 

 the size and the shape of its flowers. From a creeping 

 root-like caudex it produces roundish ovate pseudobulbs, 

 which are marked by annular scars, and develope lanceolate 

 acuminate strongly plicate leaves two feet long. The scape 

 springs up from the base of the bulbs and grows three to four 

 feet high, terminated by a floral raceme a foot long ; the 

 sepals and petals are lanceolate acuminate, olive brown, the 

 lip rolled up over the column, ochraceous outside, the larger 

 ovate undulated front lobe mucronate, crimson with a yellowish 

 margin. It flowers during the spring months. — Java. 



'FiG.—Blume, Orch. Arch. Ind., t. 1, et t. 5 D ; Be Vriese, III. Orch., tt. 

 8, 11 ; Garteiiflnra, t. 464. 



Syn. — Liinodorum Incarvilhi. 



P. Blumei Bernaysii, BcM. f.—k very showy variety, 

 closely resembling P. Blumei in habit and general appearance, 

 the pseudobulbs being roundish ovate, the dark green leaves 

 lanceolate and strongly nervose, and the racemes of flowers 

 terminating scapes from two to three feet high. The sepals 

 and petals are lanceolate acuminate, white outside, soft 

 pale yellow within ; and the lip is three-lobed, as long as 

 the petals, the convolute portion sulphur yellow, the lateral 

 lobes rounded white, the middle lobe orbicular apiculate, 

 with a white wavy recurved margin, yellow on the disk, and 

 a conical curved greenish spur. — Australia : Queensland. 



FiQ.—Bot. Mag., t._6032. 

 Syn. — P. Bernaysii. 



P. grandifolius, Loureiro. — This noble evergreen terrestrial 

 Orchid is an old inhabitant of our gardens, having been 



