368 GAKDEN PLANTS. PART TI. 



Brassavola. 



A genus of Orchids of tropical America remarkable for the 

 fragrance of their flowers, with long-tailed petals. B. cucullata 

 and B. glauca are met with in Calcutta. 



Phaius. 



A genus of terrestrial Orchids, natives of the East, of which 

 1 P. maculatus, with yellow flowers, and 2 P. Wallichii, with 

 dull-orange or tawny flowers, are well known in Calcutta. 



Thunia, olim Phaius. 



T. Bensonii, and T. alba, which, Mr. Jennings tells me, grows 

 well in the open ground, in broken brick beneath a Mango-tree, 

 and displays its beautiful white flowers in July. 



Arundina. 



A. bambuscefolia. A terrestrial Orchid, native of Nepal, 

 nearly allied to Bletia, a slender, reed-like plant, not uncom- 

 mon in Calcutta, where, in the month of September, it bears 

 thin purple flowers. 



Bletia. 



1. B. hyacinthina. A terrestrial Orchid ; native of China ; 

 begins to start its corms about the middle of November, when it 

 should be repotted ; a good light leaf-mould soil, with plenty of 

 crocks for immediate drainage, and broad, rather shallow pots, 

 are most suitable to it ; displays its abundance of bright pink 

 flowers in February and March. 



2. B. verecunda. A terrestrial Orchid ; native of the West 

 Indies ; flowers very similar to those of the preceding, borne 

 nearly always, but principally at the end of September, when it 

 throws up long flowering stems three feet high, displaying 

 their flowers in full beauty for more than two months; 

 ripens abundance of seed during the Cold season ; cultivated 

 as the last. 



Spathoglottis. 



S. Fortuni. A terrestrial Orchid ; native of Hong Kong ; 

 flowers yellow, described as, in character, much resembling the 

 preceding. 



