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middle, the central part oblong-ligulate, of a ricli violet-purplo, 

 with a tuft of hairs on the anterior middle line. It is named 

 in honour of Erastus Corning, Esq., of Albany, N.Y. The 

 plant flowers during the spring months. — Eastern Archi- 

 pelago. 



P. Cornil-cerTi, Blume et Rchb. f. — A very pretty bulbless 

 Orchid, which, though not particularly showy in a small state, 

 blooms very freely when grown vigorously. The leaves 

 are distichous leathery cuneate-oblong, eight inches or more 

 in length, and of a bright green colour. The peduncles are 

 lateral, erect, clavate, flattened out towards the apex, where 

 from six to twelve flowers are produced in succession ; the 

 dorsal sepal is narrow lanceolate, the lateral ones slightly 

 falcate, the former greenish yellow cross-barred with reddish 

 brown, and having a wider blotch at the base, the latter with 

 the outer halves only barred with brown ; the petals are some- 

 what smaller, greenish yellow, with cross-bars of brown ; and 

 the lip is whitish, clawed, hollowed on the disk, and incurved, 

 tripartite, the lateral divisions bluntly oblong, the intermedi- 

 ate one crescent-shaped and apiculate. — Moulmein. 



FiG.—Bot. Mag., t. 5570; Batem. 2nd Cent. Orch. PL, t. 178; Kuhl and 

 Easselt, Gen. et Sp. Orch., t. 1. 

 Syn. — Polychilos Cornu-cervi. 



P, equestris. — See PflAii^NOPsis rosea. 



p. Esmeralda, Rchb. f. — Although not competing with some 

 of the showier kinds as regards the size of its blossoms, this 

 species is nevertheless worthy of cultivation on account of the 

 attractive colouring of its flowers. The leaves are oblong- 

 ligulate acute ; and the flowers, which are produced on the usual 

 lateral scapes, and are about the size of those of P. equestris, 

 and from fifteen to twenty in an erect raceme, have bluntly 

 oblong sepals and petals, and a three-lobed lip, of which the 

 two largish lateral lobes are oblong divaricate, and the front 

 lobe is longer and linguiform ; they are of ah uniform brilliant 

 amethyst colour, and produced during the summer months. — 

 Cochin China. 



YlG.— Floral Mag., 2 ser., t. 368. 



P. grandiflora, Lindley. — A truly handsome and noble 

 Orchid, second to none of which we as yet possess any precise 

 knowledge. In its general character it is similar to P. ama- 

 hilis. The plant is ebulbous, but the leaves are longer, and of 



