I'H.\I,1.N'M'SIS. 



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and P. sumatrana, first detected in 1878 by Mr. F. W. Burbidge, 

 Superintendent of Trinity College Botanic Garden, Dublin, while 

 travelling for us in the Malay Archipelago. He found it in Sulu, 

 the largest of a group of small islands lying between north-east 

 Borneo and Mindanao, growing on the hills at a considerable 

 elevation, where it appears to be rare, as only four plants were 

 found by its discoverer, who named the species in compliment to 

 his wife. Some years later it was imported by Messrs. Low and 

 Co. from the neighbouring island of Mindanao, where it is more 

 plentiful, and where it was subsequently gathered by our collector, 

 David Burke, on the hills near the south-east coast ; in this locality 

 it grows on the trunks and branches of trees always in dense shade, 

 which seems essential to its well-being. 



P. Parishii. 



A diminutive plant with flattened, fleshy routs. Leaves elliptic nr 

 elliptic-oblong, 2 — 4 inches long, of an uniform deep green. Racemes as 

 long as the leaves, 5 — 9 flowered. Flowers f inch in diameter ; sepals 

 and petals white, the dorsal sepal oblong, the lateral two broader, ovate- 

 oblong ; petals obovate ; lip " with a short claw bent at right angles to 

 the limb," three-lobed, the lateral lobes very small, horn-like, bent back- 

 wards, yellow spotted with purple ; the front lobe almost triangular, bright 

 rose-purple : crest semi-lunate with a fimbriate outer margin, white 

 with a yellowish brown centre, below this is "a linear appendage, pro- 

 jecting forwards and divided to near the base into four slender filaments." 

 Column white, spotted with purple on the anterior face. 



Phalsnopsis Parishii, Eclib. in Bot. Zeit 1865, p. 146. Id. in Card. Chron. 1865, 



p. 410. Id. Xen. Orch. 11. p. 144, t. 156. Id. in Saunders' Ref. Bot. I. t. 85. Bot. 



Mag. t. 5815. Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. p. 31. 



Introduced from Moulmein in 1864, by Messrs. Low and Co., 

 through the Rev. C. S. Parish, after whom it is named. It had, 

 however, been discovered twenty years previous to that date by our 

 collector, Thomas Lobb, during his mission to Assam, in 1849 — 50, 

 and where it has since been gathered by Mann and Keenan ; the 

 Assam plant is said to differ from the Moulmein type in the colour of 

 the flowers, especially the labellum. In Moulmein it is generally 

 found on the bi^anches of trees covered with moss, where it is subject 

 to great heat and moisture during the growing season ; in the dry 

 season it loses its leaves.* The structure of the lip of the orchid is 

 very singular, and quite unlike that of any other species known to 

 us ; it is also motile upon the slightest pressure being applied to it, 

 * Major-General E. S. Berkeley, in Gard. Chron. I. s. 3 (1887), p. 280. 



