PAPHINIA CRISTATA. 
[PLatE 34.] 
Native of Trinidad and Guiana. 
Epiphytal. Pseudobulbs small, clustered, oblong-ovate, compressed, somewhat 
furrowed, bearing one to three leaves at the apex, and leaf-like scales at the base. 
Leaves oblong-lanceolate, plicate, submembranaceous, spreading, about eight inches in 
height. Scapes proceeding from the base of the pseudobulbs, pendent, two or three- 
flowered, clothed with loose brown membranaceous bracts. Flowers smooth, spreading, 
whitish on the outside, beautifully marked with purple lines within, about three and 
a half inches across; sepals lanceolate acute, fleshy, pale straw colour, almost entirely 
covered by thin transverse lines of chocolate-purple ; petals similar in form and colour, 
but somewhat narrower ; lip much smaller than the foregoing, fleshy, tripartite, almost 
entirely of a rich purplish black, ovate in outline, shortly unguiculate, with four stalked 
glands on the reddish orange purple-spotted claw, the lateral lobes sickle-shaped, the 
middle lobe rhomboidal, terminated by a tuft of club-shaped fimbrie; disk crested, 
bidentate, with a few deep yellow spots down the centre. Column club-shaped, 
semiterete, greenish at the base, the upper portion auriculate, with a projecting tooth 
on each side, deep yellow. 
PAPHINIA CRISTATA, Lnndley, Botanical Register, 1843, misc. 14; Lyons, Treatise 
on Orchidaceous Plants, 203; Van Houtte, Flore des Serres, iv., t. 335; Hooker, 
Botanical Magazine, t. 4836; feichenbach fil., in Walpers’ Annales Botanices 
Systematice, vi, 614; Williams, Orchid Grower's Manual, 5 ed., 265; Bateman, 
2nd Century of Orchidaceous Plants, t. 117. 
MAXILLARIA cRISTATA, Lindley, Botanical Register, t. 1811. 
Paphinia is a genus of very limited extent, and of which but few species are 
_ at present known, That now before us is a very old and familiar species, one of 
the best known amongst them, and a. singularly handsome little plant. It was the 
Mazillarig cristata of early Orchid days, and considerable quantities of it were 
formerly imported, but it has now become very rare. We have flowered several plants 
sting the past year at the Victoria N ursery, where they were greatly admired by 
ese Who saw them. It is a plant which comparatively few persons interested in 
Orchids have met with in blossom, and of which our plate gives a very correct 
“presentation, The flowers are remarkably curious, not only for their structure, but 
or their colouring, as will be seen by reference to our illustration. The plant 
i reerer, very peculiar mode of throwing out its flower-spikes. 
sli c have also flowered Paphinia ‘rugosa, another very singular and pretty _ 
© same style, but differing in colour, and well worth cultivation. They occupy 
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