520 ORCHID -GROWEb's MANUAIi. 



part rather crisp, creamy white, stained with yellow towards 

 the base, where there are three obscure keels. The filiform 

 spur is compressed, hairy, retuse and bilobed at the apex. 



PHAJU3 IRRORATUS. 



The flowers of this elegant form are produced during mid- 

 winter, and the treatment recommended for the other kinds 

 suits the plant admirably. — Garden hybrid. 



Fig.— Floral Mag., t. 426 ; Gard. Chron., 1867, 264, with fig. ; Id., N.S. 

 xviii. 565, fig. 100. 



P. irroratUS purpureus, Hort. — A very pretty variety of 

 the foregoing hybrid, with the sepals and petals white, the 

 lip dull rose colour, and the throat yellow. It flowers in 

 March and April. — Garden hybrid. 



P. maculatUS, Lindley. — A very handsome species, by far 

 too much neglected by the majority of Orchid growers, 

 being of a very showy character during the spring months. 

 The pseudobulbs are large, ovate oblong ; the leaves are 

 ovate-lanceolate acuminate, plicate, dark green spotted with 

 yellow ; the scapes are two feet or more in height springing 

 from the side of the bulbs, and bearing a raceme of ten 



