542 orchid-growee's manual. 



P. flmbrillaris, Lindley. — A very pretty species, whicli has 

 ovate leaves, exquisitely veined with silver, on a dark green 

 ground, in the way of P. argenteus ; the flowers, however, which 

 are white, have broader sepals, marked outside by a central line 

 of pellucid glands, and the lip is more inflated, yellow at the 

 tip, where it is also delicately fringed. It was introduced by 

 Mr. Weir to the Horticultural Society's Garden at Chiswick, 

 from the forests about Rio Janeiro, and is one of the choicest 

 of the family. — Brazil. 



P. maculatus, Hook — This well-marked species has very 

 stout vermicular roots, and upright stems about six inches 

 high, furnished with lanceolate acuminate leaves two and a 

 half inches long, of a dark green colour on the upper surface, 

 where they are marked with two rows of white oblong spots 

 lying parallel with the mid-rib, the under surface pale green. 

 The flowers are small, yellowish, in short dense spikes just 

 emerging from the uppermost leaves. — Ecuador. 



'Em.— But. Mag., t. 5305. 



P. nobilis, Rchb.f. — A large and very beautifully marked 

 species, resembling P. pictiis in the rich variegation of its 

 leaves, but quite different in the fringed lip of its densely 

 spicate flowers. The leaves are broadly oblong acute, of a 

 dark green colour, prettily marked with silvery veins. — 

 Brazil. 



Syn. — Ancectochilus nobills. 



P. Ortgiesii, Rchb. f. — A very distinct and curious little 

 species of dwarf habit, with prettily variegated leaves. They 

 are oblong-ovate with a cuneate base, dark olive green with 

 a velvet-like surface, silvery along the centre, and having 

 scattered oblong blotches of metallic purple distributed over 

 the entire surface of the leaf, so that it is said to be " mackerel- 

 spotted." The flowers are white, in dense spikes. — New 

 Grenada, at high elevations. 



Fig.— Florist and Pom., 1872, 243, with fig. 



Syn. — Ancectochilus Ortgiesii. 



P. pictns, Lindley. — A beautiful and distinct species, grow- 

 ing four or five inches high, and having the ovate acute leaves 

 three inches long and one and a half inch broad, each leaf 

 being edged with dark green curiously marked by silvery veins, 

 and having a handsome silver-frosted band down the centre 

 or disk. The flowers are small and grow in short spikes ; 



