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and compact in habit, and have small pseudobulbs and 

 narrow evergreen leaves about six inches in length ; their 

 flower spikes, which are slender and pendulous, are produced 

 from the top of the bulbs, from which they hang down, forming 

 long elegant racemes. There are eight or ten species found 

 in India and the Malay Archipelago. 



Culture. — These plants should be grown in the East Indian 

 or Cattleya house, potted in peat and sphagnum, with good 

 drainage. They like plenty of water during the growing 

 season ; but after they have finished their growth, should 

 only be allowed a diminished quantity. They are propagated 

 by dividing the pseudobulbs just as they begin to grow. 



P, Cobhiana, Hewsley. — A curious and interesting species, 

 with pseudobulbs and leaves resembling those of P. latifola. 

 The racemes of flowers are remarkably zigzag, and the flowers 

 themselves have light sulphur-coloured sepals and petals, a 

 flabellate orange-coloured lip, with small bristle-like side 

 lobes, and a green column with the wings and hood white. — 

 ridUppine Islands. 

 Syn. — Dendrochilum Cobhianum. 



P. flliformis, Benth. — A charming species, which grows 

 about six inches high. The flowers, which are produced in 

 June, July, and August, are of a yellowish green hue, and 

 are prized for their gracefully drooping habit. When arrived 

 at a good size, it makes a nice exhibition plant. — Vhilippine 

 Islands. 



Fig.— Garfenjlora, t. 604 ; lUmt. Ilort., 3 ser., t. 323 (glumaceizm in text). 

 Syn. — Dendrochilum Jiii forme. 



P. glumacea, Benth. — One of the most elegant of Orchids, 

 forming a pretty species, with small evergreen foliage, and 

 producing graceful spikes of greenish white flowers, which 

 are delicately scented ; it flowers in spring, and continues 

 three or four weeks in perfection. — Fhilippine Islands. 



Fig.— Bot. Mag , t. 4853. 



Syn. — Dendrochilum glumaceum. 



P. uncata, N. E. Brown. — A very graceful plant, approach- 

 ing P. filiformis in size and appearance, but the drooping 



