544 okchid-geower's manual. 



P. fragrans, Lindley. — This plant, wliich, as already noted, 

 is very like TricJiopilia in habit and appearance, has deli- 

 ciously sweet-scented blossoms. The pseudobulbs are oblong, 

 four to six inches long, slightly compressed, monophyllous, 

 the leaves broadly oblong-lanceolate, and the flowers pro- 

 duced in pendent racemes of three or four together on 

 radical peduncles. The sepals and petals are oblong-lan- 

 ceolate acuminate, pale yellowish green, two and a half 

 to three inches long, wavy and slightly twisted, and the 

 lip, which is oblong, is apiculate and slightly three-lobed, 

 pure white, with an orange spot towards the base. It blooms 

 during the winter season. —Neiv Grenada. 



YiG.—Bot. Mag., t, 5035 ; Batem. 2nd Cent. Orch. PL, t. 164 ; Jennings, 

 Orch., t. 38. 

 S YN, — Trichopilia fragrans, 



P. noMlis, Rclih. f. — This beautiful species is worthy of 

 a place in every collection, and indeed should be grown in 

 quantity by every one, so attractive and useful are its fragrant 

 flowers. The pseudobulbs are elongate oblong compressed, 

 clustered, monophyllous, the leaves being broadly oblong 

 acute. The flower scapes are radical, erect, bearing four 

 or five deflexed blossoms, which are larger than those of 

 P. fragrans, and are also sweet-scented ; the white sepals 

 and petals are linear-lanceolate undulated, and the lip is 

 subquadrate, constricted near the top so as to appear 

 obsoletely three-lobed, the upper lobes rounded and meeting 

 over the throat, the front one much larger, retuse, one and 

 three-quarter inch broad, pure snow white, having on each 

 side of the throat an orange-coloured blotch, the two blotches 

 meeting to form a central eye-like spot. — Colombia ; Peru. 



¥iG.— Orchid Alhum, iii. t 128; lUust. Hort., 3 ser., t. 94; Floral Mag., 

 2 ser., t. 21 (as fragrans). 



Stn. — Pilumna fragrans grandiflora ; Trichopilia fragrans nobilis. 



PLATrCLIXIS, Bcntham. 

 ( Tribe EpidendreEe, subtribe Lipariese.) 



A small genus consisting of plants of graceful habit, 

 forming the second section of Blume's genus Dendrochilum, 

 and commonly known in garJens by the latter name. They 

 ought to find a place in every collection. They are dwarf 



