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are about two inches across, with the anchor-like tips of the 

 lip, as seen in F. Schilleriana ; the rhomboid petals and 

 oblong upper sepal are pure white, the lateral sepals are 

 white on the upper side, and very pale sulphur on the lower 

 side, where they are thickly spotted with cinnamon red, as is 

 also the central part of the lip, which has white edges and 

 white horns. It flowers in the winter months. — Tropical 

 Asia. 



¥iG.—Bot. Mag., t. 6622; Card. Chron., U.S., xvi. 748, 753, fig, 149; 

 Florist and Pom., 1882, 49, t. 559, 



P. Stuartiana Hrubyana, B.chh. f. — A fine variety which 

 has bloomed in the collection of Baron von Hruby, Peckau, 

 Bohemia. The sepals and petals are purple at the back, with 

 a broad white margin on the petals, and a narrow one on the 

 upper sepal, the inner border of the lateral sepals being also 

 white. — Trop ica I Asia . 



P. Stuarliana nobilis, Echb. /.—A superior variety of the 

 preceding, resembling P. Schilleriana in the young growth, 

 but assuming more the colour of P. amabilis as it gains age. 

 The under side of the leaves of this variety and the flower 

 scapes are of a deep reddish purple. The flowers are larger 

 in all their parts than those of the type, and are marked with 

 fewer and larger spots ; the anterior lobe of the lip is rhombic, 

 and the disk and callus are deep orange yellow densely 

 spotted with brownish red. — Tropical Asia, 

 Fig.— Orchid Album, i. t. 39 ; Illust. Sort, 3 ser., t. 540 (as Stuartiana). 



P. Stuartiana punctatissima, Bchb. f. — This is a distinct 



and pleasing variety, in which the flowers in their general 

 coloration are like those of the type, that is, the lower halves 

 of the lateral sepals and the lip are heavily spotted with 

 brownish red, and the callus and lower parts of the side lobes 

 of the lip are yellow also spotted with red, in addition to 

 which the sepals and petals are everywhere ornamented by 

 innumerable small mauve-red spots on the parts which are 

 normally white. The plant figured as P. Stuartiana punctulata 

 in the Lindenia (t. 8j appears to be the same form. — Trojncal 

 Asia. 



Fig, — Lindenia, t. 8 (punctulata). 



P. SUmatrana, Korthals. — A remarkable plant which flowered 

 for the first time in this country with J. Day, Esq., in 1865. 

 The leaves are few, obovate-oblong acute, six inches long. 



