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3. P. Schilleriana. A very beautiful plant for its flattened 

 frosted roots, and leaves similar in form to those of the last 

 marked with transverse bands and blotches of white. Flowers 

 fragrant, pinkish-mauve, with dark purple spots on the lip. 



4. P. Cornu-cervi. Spikes of flowers flattened in shape like a 

 stag-horn, small, yellow barred with brown ; not uncommon in 

 Calcutta. 



5. P. Lowii. Flowers white with deep purple lip, leaves small 

 and deciduous in the Cold season. 



6. Parishii. A very small plant, with small but abundant 

 white and purple flowers. 



7. P. rosea. Blossoms nearly all the year round from the 

 same spike. 



8. P. Manneii. Flowers creamy yellow, small and incon- 

 spicuous : abundant and thriving in the Botanical Gardens. 



9 P. Schumann!!. Leaves rich purple on the reverse, most 

 profuse bloomer, with enormous branched spikes. 



There are besides these some six or seven species not intro- 

 duced mentioned as natives principally of the Straits and Philip- 

 pines. The great point to obtain success in the cultivation of 

 these plants, Mr. Warner states, is to render the leaves healthy, 

 by keeping them as well exposed to the light as possible. 



Saccolabium. 



Flowers generally small, but borne very numerously in large 

 dense clusters of a plume-like form, most exquisite in colour 

 and delicate in character. 



1. S. giganteum. A magnificent plant from Burmah with 

 broad, lightest green leaves ; bears in December and January 

 large, very fragrant flowers, white spotted with violet. 



2. S. guttatum (syn. S. retusum). An old-established plant in 

 Calcutta ; bears spikes of bloom a foot or more long of small 

 white flowers spotted with rose, described as assuming a tail- 

 like, almost cylindrical form. Others known in Calcutta are : 

 3. S. micranthum ; 4 S. minjatum; 5. S. ampullaceum ; 6. 

 S. Blumei ; 7. S. denticulatum. 



Aerides. 

 Flowers resemble in general appearance those of Saccolabium. 



