PHAIUS TUBERCULOSUS. 
[PLatE 91.] 
Native of M adagascar. 
; Epiphytal. Stems (pseudobulbs) fusiform or. sub-clavate jointed, dark green, 
_ annularly marked by the pallid bases of the leaf-sheaths. Leaves oblong-acuminate, 
about a foot long, plicate, narrowed below, the base again enlarged so as to clasp 
the stems. Scape produced with the young growth, green, below bearing lanceolate 
mbricated bracts, and terminating in an erect raceme of six or more flowers. 
= Flowers spreading, two and a half inches across, of singular form; sepals ovate- 
acuminate, stoutish, pure white; petals of the same colour and texture as the 
sepals, but rather broader and more oblong; lip obliquely funnel-shaped at. the 
base, with a blunt chin projecting upwards, three-lobed; the two basal lobes large, 
suborbicular, meeting the column, yellow, thickly blotched with irregular spots and 
dots of a dull crimson, producing a bronzy effect, furnished with scattered hairs on 
the surface, wavy at the edge; front lobe smaller, phew igs Te or subcordate, 
wavy, white, with rosy purple marginal spots, closely frilled; disk yellowish white, 
with three deep orange-yellow crests or ridges towards the front, the crests bluntly 
toothed and wavy along the upper edge, the central one forked about the middle; near 
the base, a short distance from the column, is a small tuft of pale sulphur capitate 
Column slender, incurved, club-shaped, white, tinted with purple in front. 
Puatus tuBercuLosus, Blume, Museum Botanicum Lugduno-Batavum, M., 181; 
C i deners’ Chromite, 
Md. Orchidées de VArchipel Indien et du Japon, 13, t. ii. B.; Gardene 
NS, XV., 341, fig. 67; Reichenbach fil., in Gardeners’ Chronicle, N.8., Xv., 428. 
_ Limoporum rusrrcuLosum, Du Petit-Thouars, Orchidées recueillies sur les trots 
Iles Australe @ Afrique, t. 31. 
BLETIA TUBERCULOSA, S C2 Plantarum 
| : , Sprengel, Systema Lan , 
und Species of Orchidaceous Plants, 123. 
iii, 744; Lindley, Genera 
The plant we are now about to describe, and of which a ee ita, a 
temarks, is one of the most beautiful and distinct yet known, one, oping ts ad 
ia only bloomed in few collections. It is a new introduction fon Mage 
. yet is a very rare plant, being difficult to import and 
8 Much to be soa on cee of its beauty. Our egg ae Het 
_, © Wn specimen in the fine collection of Baron Schréder, of ee ‘managed. 
Where, under the care of Mr. Ballantyne, the plant ee y tad. 
a Trevor Lawrence, Bart., M.P., has also been fortunate in flowers ce 
# was first exhibited by him. 
