ORCHID SPECIES 



although somewhat resembling O. bracteatum is very different in the 

 colour of its flowers. 



PACHYSTOMA THOMSONIANUM, Bchb. f. 



Syns. Ancistrochilus Thomsonianus, Rolfe. 



Gard. Chron. 1879, vol. xii. pp. 582 and 625, fig.; Bot. Mag. t. 6471; Veitchs' 

 Man. Orch. PI. pt. vi. p. 4, fig. ; The Garden, 1888, vol. xxxiii. p. 175, fig. ; Rolfe 

 in Orchid Review, 1904, vol. xii. p. 297, fig. 43. 



Introduced through Kalbreyer, by whom it was discovered on the 

 mountains of Old Calabar, West Tropical Africa, and dedicated at his 

 request to the Eev. George Thomson, for many years a missionary in that 

 part of the world. 



It is remarkable for its beauty and that the nearest allies are Asiatic, 

 connecting the floras of those widely sundered regions. 



PHAIUS BLUMEI, LindL, var. BERNAYSII. 

 Syns. P. grandifolius, var. Blumei, sub-var. Bernaysii, Veitch ; P. Bernaysii, Row. MSS. 



Rchb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1873, p. 77; Bot. Mag. t. 6032; Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. 



pt. vi. p. 11. 



Flowered in March 1873, and described by Professor Eeichenbach 

 (loc. cit.) from material supplied by us, and by Dr. Hooker in the 

 Botanical Magazine. 



It is possibly a form of the variety Blumei, differing only in the colour 

 of the flowers, which are primrose -yellow, and of little value horti- 

 culturally on account of the blooms being often self-fertilized before they 

 expand. 



PHAIUS CALLOSUS, LindL 



Syiis. Limodorum callosum, Blume. 

 Gard. Chron. 1848, p. 287, with fig. ; Rchb. Xen. Orch. t. 122. 



A native of Java, first flowered in March 1848, the specific name, 

 "thick-lipped," being derived from the prominent callus which passes from 

 the lip down the tube. The flowers are reddish-brown in colour, tipped 

 with dingy-white. 



PHAIUS PHILIPPINENSIS, N. E. Br. 



N. E. Brown in Gard. Chron. 1889, vol. vi. p. 239 ; Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. pt. vi. p. 13. 



Discovered by David Burke on the slopes of the hills at 3,000-4,000 ft. 

 elevation, in the Island of Mindanao, and interesting as being the first 

 species of the genus Phaius to be discovered in the Philippines. 



It flowered for the first time at Chelsea in 1889. As a species it is 

 remarkably distinct, especially in the structure of its lip, which is truncate 

 and slightly frilled. 



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