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enough to secure a portion of the sto.ck, which was duly distributed by us, and 

 it is worthy of note, as a proof of the great estimation in which this variety is 

 held by Orchid growers, that one of the plants sold by us realised at an auction 

 sale the sum of fifty guineas. The flowers are pure white and deliciously scented, 

 the calli only being yellow. It is a most chaste and beautiful variety, growing 

 and iiowering as freely as the type. — Cruatemala. 



Fia.—Floral Jln^., 2nl ser., t. 398; L'OrcUdopJdle, 18S."), p. 102 (plate). 



O. PACHYPHYLLUM.-See 0. Cavendishianum. 



O. PALLIDUM — See 0, Haehsonianum. 



O. PANTHERINUM — See 0- Harrisoniaxum. 



O. PAPILIO, Lindl. — A very remarkable and beautiful species, with flowers 

 similar in shape to ^ butterfly, whence it is named the Butterfly Orchid. It 

 has roundish ovate compressed rugose dark purple pseudobulbs, bearing a 

 single elliptical leathery one-nerved leaf, which is of a deep purple-brown, 

 spotted and blotched over with green ; the flower-scape, which springs from the 

 base of the bulb, is 2 to 3 feet long, flexuose, jointed, the upper articulations 

 compressed, anoipitous, and terminated by one or two large and very handsome 

 flowers ; the dorsal sepal and two petals are about 3 inches long, linear, erect, 

 lurid green outside, purple within, the lateral ones oblong tapering wavy sub- 

 falcate decurved, bright yellow, striped with transverse bands of orange-red; 

 and the lip is shorter, roundish, If inch across, wavy at the edge, emarginate, 

 distinctly clawed, yellow, mottled all over with brown or having a broad margin 

 of bright cinnamon brown (limbatum). This species is best grown on a block or 

 in a basket, and we have found it to succeed best in the East Indian house. 

 The spikes of this plant should not be cut off but be allowed to remain, for as 

 soon as one flower fades another appears. — Trinidad, Caracas. 



VlGc.—Lodd. JBot. Cab., 1. 1086 ; Bot. Mag., t. 2795 ; Id., t. 3733 ; Bot. Beg., t. 910 ; 

 Jenning.^' Orchids, t. 11 ; Maviid, Botanist, i. t. 10 ; Paxton, Mag. Bot., v. p. 175, with 

 tab. ; knmjilc-i 4' 'ifi'sfc. Floral Cab., t. 12 ; Bchb. Fl. Exot., t. 62 '; Hart. Parad., i. t. 9 ; 

 Flore dm Serrm, tt. 920-22; Hooh. First Cent. Oreh. PL, t. 77 ; Teitch's Man. Orch.PL, 

 viii. p. 67. 



O. PAPILIO ECKHARDTII, L. Linden. — A superior variety of this old 

 favourite, having larger flowers, and a very broad lip, of larger size than in 

 the type -, the three erect narrow perianth segments are 4^ inches long, and the 

 lip 'i,\ inches across, the latter yellow with a broad orange-red border, and the 

 lateral sepals cross-barred with a similar colour. — Native country not stated. 



l^ia.—L'Ill. liort., 3rcl ser., 1883, xxx. t. 500. 



O. PAPILIO MAJUS, RcTih.f.—K truly beautiful Orchid, which, like the other 

 f omxs of the species, continues to bloom from the old flower stems for years — as 

 soon as one flower fades, another appears in the same place ; the form of the 

 flowers, as already explained, is very peculiar, and the colour is rich dark brown, 

 barred with yellow, with the lip very large, bright yellow in the centre, and 

 edged with dark brown, varying in colour and size of flower. There are several 

 varieties of 0. Papilio, but that called majus is the best. — Trinidad. 



Fig. — Orchid Album, vi. t. 279 ; Lindenia, iii. t. 138. 



