528 oechid-geower's manual. 



suffused with purple, three-lobed, the lateral lobes wedge- 

 shaped, the central one rhombiform with two small cirrhi at 

 its base, and deeply emarginate in front. The flovfer is pro- 

 longed at the back into a short spur. — Sunda Isles. 



'Fm.—Gard. Chron., 1870, 1731, fig. 299 ; Pui/dt, Les Orch., 224, fig. 226 



—7. 



P, antennifera, Bchb. f. — This species is in the way of P. 

 Esmeralda, but is totally distinct in colour. It was intro- 

 duced and flowered by us for the first time. As far as we 

 have seen, the plants have the habit of P. Esweralda, but are 

 altogether stronger, and the foliage is entirely green. The 

 flowers grow on scapes upwards of two feet long, and have the 

 same shape as those of the species just named. The sepals 

 and petals are light rose colour, the tips of the sepals brick 

 red outside ; and the unguiculate lip is trifid, the side lacinise 

 and basilar antennae deep orange striped with red, and the 

 anterior lobe amethyst. We have had plants of this species 

 producing a branched inflorescence. It blooms in September 

 and October. — Burmah. 



P. Aphrodite. — See PnALiENOPSis amabilis. 



P. casta, Rchb. f. — This plant is supposed to be a natural 

 mule, having the leaves of P. Schilleriana and the flowers of 

 P. amabilis. The leaves are slightly spotted in the young 

 state, but the spots disappear as they attain maturity. The 

 flowers are white as in P. amabilis, the bases of the upper 

 sepals and petals being slightly tinted with purple, and those 

 of the lateral sepals spotted. The callus resembles that of P. 

 amabilis. — PhiUjJjnne Islands. 



P. Comingiana, Rchb. f. — A handsome species allied to P. 

 sumatrana, but quite distinct in the peculiar callosity of the 

 base of the lip. The sepals are bluntly keeled on the outer 

 surface, the upper one cuneate-oblong, marked with longitu- 

 dinal purple-brown stripes and a few transverse bars at its 

 base, the longitudinal bars merging into numerous hiero- 

 glyphical blotches ; the deflesed lateral sepals are almost 

 wiaolly purple-brown bordered and spotted with yellowish 

 white ; the cuneate oblong-ligulate petals are marked with 

 longitudinal purple-brown bars and blotches, and the lip, 

 which is bent in front of the claw so as to stand forward, has 

 its side lobes erect ligulate retuse, with a small bristle on the 

 upper angle, white, yellow on the umbonate callus in the 



