80 ILATYCLINIS. 



wliat is fainiliavly called the East Indian house. They should be 

 re-potted within a short time after the fall of the flowers, in a compost 

 of peat and chopped sphagnum, such as is generally used for tropical 

 epiphytal orchids with pseudo-bulbs. The pots should have an ample 

 drainage of clean l)roken crocks to three-fourths of their depth ; water 

 must l)e freely supplied during the growing season, the supply being 

 diminished in the dormant season to a quantity sufficient to keep the 

 compost moist. 



Platyclinis Cobbiana. 



rseiido-bulbs sub-conical, elongateil, angulate, channelled, H— 2 inches 



long. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, 6 inches long. Peduncles slender, about 



a foot long; raceme flexuose, dense. Flowers pale straw-yellow with 



an orange-yellow lip ; sepals and petals elliptic-oblong, acute ; lip flabellate, 



slightly refuse in front. Column white at the apex, greenish below. 



Platyclinis Cobbiana, Hemsley in Gard. Chion. XVI. (1881), p. 656. Dendrochilum 

 Cobbianuni, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. XIV. (1880), p. 748. 



Introduced from the Philippine Islands, in 1879 — 80, by Messrs. 



Low and Co., through their collector Boxall, and dedicated by 



Reichenbacli to Mr. Walter Cobb, of Silverdale, Sydenham, in whose 



collection it flowered for the first titne in this country. Platyclinis 



Cobbiana is easily distinguished from the better known P. f/lumacea 



by its differently shaped p-seudo -bulbs, its zigzag rachis, and by its 



flowering at the opposite season of the year, usually September 



and October. 



P. flliformis. 



Pseudo-bulbs ovoid, about the size of a filbert. Leaves linear, Ti — 6 

 inches long. Peduncles filiform, 12—15 inches long. Raceme with 



50 80, or even more floAvers of an uniform canary-yellow ; sepals and 



petals oval ; lip shorter than the other segments, obcordate, emarginate. 



Platyclinis flliformis, Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. XVIII. (1881), p. 295, ined. 



Dendrochilum filiforme, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1840, misc. No. 113. Regel's Gartenfl. 



XVI II. (1869), t. 604. Illus. liort. 1878, t. 323. 



One of the discoveries of Cuming during his esciirsion to the 



Philippine Islands in 1836 — 40, and sent by him to Messrs. Loddiges. 



It flowered for the first time in Europe in Mr. Bateman's collection 



at Knypersley, in Cheshire, in 1841. Its flowering season is June 



and July, when, although the individual flowers are among the 



smallest in the oi-chid family, the graceful thread-like racemes in 



which they are collected, form a most striking and pleasing object. 



