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or twelve flowers, which are yellow, the Hp involutely 

 cylindrical, fleshy, with a blunt spur, three-lobed in front, 

 the middle lobe plicate-crenite streaked with reddish brown 

 at the edge. There are two varieties of this plant, the best 

 one being very showy and desirable. — Northern India ; 

 Japan. 



YiG.—Bof. Maa., t. 2719 ; Id., t SOGO; BJume, Orch. Arch. Jnd, t. .') E; 

 Lodd. Bot. Cab., t. 1803 ; Rchh. Fl. Exot., t. U5. 



SYJU.—Blatia Woodfordii ; B.jlava. 



P. tubercnloSUS, Blume. — A. very handsome and distinct 

 species producing short fusiform fleshy stems, from which 

 proceed the new growths bearing a tuft of oblong-acuminate 

 plicate leaves about a foot long. The erect flower sterns 

 are produced with the young leafy growths and terminate in 

 a raceme of six or more flowers, which are each about two 



THAJrS TrBERCULOSrS. 



and a half inches across. The sepals and somewhat broader 

 petals are pure white, and the lip, which is obliquely funnel- 

 shaped, has the two broad side lobes yellow thickly marked 

 with dull crimson spots, which on the yellow ground pro- 

 duce a bronzy eftect, while the front lobe is roundish 



