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P. Eeiclieilbaclliana, Echb. f. et Sander. — In growth this 

 plant resembles P. Luddemanniana. It is a distinct species, 

 with leaves upwards of a foot long, and nearly three inches 

 broad, strongly keeled, and a stout unbranched peduncle a 

 foot and a half long, bearing from one to two dozen flowers 

 equal to those of a fine P. sumatrana. The sepals and 

 petals are cream-coloured, irregularly blotched and barred 

 with dull reddish purple, the lip triangular dilated mauve 

 blue with the side lobes orange and white. The anterior 

 disk bears a cushion of hairs. — East Tropical Asia. 



P. rosea, Lindley. — A rather small-flowered but pretty 

 species. The plant forms a tuft of leathery oblong convex 

 or recurved leaves six to eight inches long, and of a bright 

 light green colour. The scape is lateral, about a foot and a 

 half in height, stiff" and ascending, branched, with a drooping 

 purplish panicle of some dozen or more flowers, which are 

 an inch across. The sepals and petals are oblong-lanceolate, 

 white, slightly tinged with rose pink, especially along the 

 centre ; the lip with the front lobe ovate acuminate, ascending, 

 deep violet in the centre, the side lobes linear-spathulate, 

 oblique, incurved, stained in some varieties with rich orange, 

 the crest concave, lunate, rounded. It blooms at diff"erent 

 times of the year, lasting long in beauty. It sometimes pro- 

 duces from twelve to fourteen spikes of bloom, and then 

 makes a very handsome specimen. If the old spikes are left, 

 they will keep blooming for several years, as in most other 

 species of this genus, and as the spikes elongate the flowers 

 come larger. — Philipjnne Islands. 



YlGr.—Paxt. Fl. Gard., ii. t. 72 ; Lem. Jard. Fl., in. t. 283 ; Bot. Mag., t. 

 5212 ; Jennings, Orch., t. 27 ; Flore des Serves, 1. 1646 ; Gard. Chron., 1848, 

 671, with fig. 



Sin. — P. equestris; Stauroglottis equestris. 



P. Sanderiana, Pchh. f. — A most charming plant, which it 

 is suggested may be a natural cross between P. amahilis and 

 P. Schillcriana. Its general appearance is that of a rose- 

 coloured form of P. amahilis. The foliage is similar to that 

 of P. amahilis, but the upper surface is a dark silver grey, 

 similar in colour to the markings on the leaves of P. ScJiiller- 

 iana. The sepals, petals, and lip resemble those of P. 

 amahilis, but are deeply flushed with a pleasing rose colour, 

 some being whitish rose, some rose-purple, with well-defined 

 areas of darker purple ; the lip is white, marked with cinnamon 

 or purple stripes, and some touches of yellow. Reichenbach 



