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foot long, green, with a violet edge and many violet spots near 

 the base. The flowers are numerous (thirteen or more), in 

 deflexed racemes, with the stalks scarcely winged ; they are 

 about two inches in diameter, the oblong-ligulate sepals and 

 smaller linear- falcate petals honey-yellow, conspicuously 

 blotched and spotted with rich brown ; the lip is very singu- 

 lar, the lateral lobes being erect ligulate retuse, whitish 

 streaked with purple, and the whitish central lobe crescent- 

 shaped and fringed. — Assam. 



P. Marise, BurUdge. — This elegant dwarf-habited species 

 resembles P. sumatrana in its manner of growth, and its 

 flowers are also similar in form to those of that plant. The 

 leaves are deflexed, distichous, ligulate acute, glossy, and 

 obscurely striate. The flowers grow in a lateral droopiog 

 raceme, and are about an inch and a half across ; the oblong 

 bluntish sepals and the somewhat broader petals are white, 

 each marked with about six bold transverse bars of chestnut 

 brown, the basal blotches being amethyst ; the lip, which has 

 the middle lobe obovate oblong apiculate, convex, and plane, 

 not pilose, is of a rich deep magenta-purple margined with 

 white. It was discovered by Mr. F. W. Burbidge when col- 

 lecting for Messrs. Veitch & Sons. — Sunda Isles. 



Fig.— Orchid Album, ii. t. 80. 



P. ParisMi, Rchb. f. — A " lovely little plant," with thick 

 fleshy roots, distichous tufts of oblong-lanceolate acute deep 

 green leathery leaves from two to four inches long, and 

 short many (6 to 10) flowered racemes, the flowers actually 

 small, being less than an inch in diameter, but comparatively 

 large and efiective for the size of the plants, from their being 

 numerous with the parts well spread out. The sepals are 

 oblong or ovate, the petals obovate spathulate, both white, 

 and the lip has the lateral lobes small, horn-like, yellow with 

 purple blotches, and the front lobe broadly triangular, spread 

 out, and of a rich deep amethyst-purple ; the disk has a semi- 

 lunar callus, the edge of which is broken up into a fimbriate 

 crest, and behind this is a projecting linear appendage divided 

 into four slender filaments almost as long as the lobe itself. 

 The strong contrast of colour in the rather crowded flowers 

 renders the plant very beautiful when in blossom, which 

 occurs during the summer season. — Burmah ; Eastern 

 Himalaya. 



Fig— Bot. Moff., t. 5815 ; Xenia Orch., ii. 1. 156, fig. 1 ; Refug. Bot., ii. t. 85. 



