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bearing 5 — 7 oblong-lanceolate leaves as long as the stem, and spotted 



with pale yellow. Scapes 2 — 3 feet high, racemose along the distal 



half, many flowered. Flowers 3 inches in diameter ; sepals and petals 



oval-oblong, buff-yellow ; lip shorter than the other segments, convolute 



into a tube, pale butf-yellow, the anterior margin bent downwards, 



much crisped, and of a chocolate-red colour; spur oblong-obtuse. 



Phaius maculatus, Lindl. Gen. et. Sp. Orch. p. 127 (1831). Bot Mag. t. 3960. 

 Hook. Cent. Orch. t. 40. Williams' Orch. Alb. VIII. t. 381. Bletia Woodfordii, Bot. 

 Mag. t. 2719. Blume, Orch. Ind. Archipel. p. 9. 



Native of various parts of the lower Himalayan zone, where it 



occurs iti swampy places. It was one of the numerous discoveries 



of Dr. Wallich, in the early part of the present century, and who sent 



it to Kevv about the year 1822. Its spotted leaves generally disting-uish 



it from all the cultivated species of Phaius, but instances have been 



observed in which the spots are absent. 



P. philippinensis. 



Pseudo-bulbs like the rhizome of an Iris, 1| — 2 inches long, cylindric, 

 with 5 — 6 rings when the sheaths have fallen. Leaves, two from each 

 growth, lanceolate, acuminate, plicate, 9 — 15 inches long, narrowed below 

 into a channelled petiole half as long as the blade. >Scapes as long as 

 or longer than the leaves, terete with equidistant joints, at each of which 

 is a tubular spathaceous sheath, and terminating in a few-flowered raceme. 

 Flowers leathery in texture, not fully expanding ; sepals and petals 

 oblanceolate-oblong, sub-acute, reddish brown, passing into light yellow 

 at the margin, white outside ; lip trumpet-shaped with a truncate mouth, 

 the margin recurved, more or less frilled, white with a faint tinge of pink 

 when first expanded, changing with age to pale yellow ; spur obsolete, 

 disk with three keels, of which the outside tAvo are the shortest and most 

 elevated. Column clavate, with broad rounded wings. 



Phaius philippinensis, N. E. Brown in Gard. Chron. VI. s. 3 (1889), p. 239. 

 Detected by our collector, David Burke, on the slopes of the hills, 

 at 3,000 — 4,000 feet elevation, in the Island of Mindanao, and thence 

 interesting as being the first species of Phaius found in the Philippine 

 Islands. It flowered for the first time in our Chelsea nursery in 

 August, 1889. As a species it is remarkably distinct, especially in the 

 structure of the labellum, which is neither three-lobed nor spurred, 

 but ''has a nearly truncate mouth with a slightly frilled, recurved 

 margin, the emarginate apex is not in the least produced." 



P. tuberculosus. 



Pseudo-bulbs fusiform, annulate, prostrate or slightly ascending, 2 — 3 

 inches long. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 10 — 15 inches long. 



