652 oechid-geower's manual. 



groTying in dry pastures on the sides of high hill's near Peradeniya in Ceylon. 

 " From a fleshy, knobby rhizome like that of an Iris, the leaves and flower-stems 

 spring independently of each other ; " the leaves are about 1^ foot long, 

 plaited and sharp-pointed, invested at the base with green scales ; flower spikes 

 2 feet high, producing flowers about 4 inches in diameter ; " sepals and petals 

 linear-lanceolate spreading, taper-pointed, and nearly of the same size ; the li]j 

 is very much broader, oblong, rolled round the column, much undulated at the 

 edge, acuminated and curved downwards at the upper end, with a pink limb and 

 a yellow tube." There are two varieties of this plant, one with crimson sepals 

 and petals and a pink lip, and the other yellow except the lip. — Ceylon. 



Fio.—Sertum Orch.,t. 23 ; Bot. Mag., t. 4078. 



P. BLUMEI, lAndl. — A very handsome plant, resembling P. granAiJ'olms in 

 its habit of growth, as it does also in the size and the shape of its flowers. 

 From a creeping root-like caudex it produces roundish ovate pseudobulbs, 

 which are marked by annular scars, and develop lanceolate acuminate strongly 

 plicate leaves 2 feet long ; the scape springs up from the base of the bulbs and 

 grows 3 to 4 feet high, terminated by a floral raceme a foot long ; the sepals 

 and petals are lanceolate acuminate, olive brown, the lip rolled up over the 

 column, ochraceous outside, the larger ovate undulated front lobe mucronate, 

 crimson with a yellowish margin. It flowers during the spring months. — Java. 



YiQ.—Blnme, Orcli. A rch. Ind ., 1. 1 , ct t. 5 D ; i>e Vriese, III. Orcli ., tt. 8, 1 1 ; Oartcn- 

 Jtora, t. 464. 



Syst. — Limodormn Incanlllei . 



P. BLUMEI ASSAMICUS, Rehh. f. — A very distinct variety, which appears 

 to vary considerably in the colour of its sepals and petals, from light yellow to 

 reddish-brown, and the lip from light yellow bordered with white to orange 

 bordered with purple. — Assam. 



Fig, — MeicJieiibackia, 2nd ser., ii. t. 69. 



P. BLUMEI BERNAYSII, Rclih.f. — A very showy variety, closely resembling 

 P. Blumei in habit and general appearance, the pseudobulbs being roundish 

 ovate, the dark green leaves lanceolate and strongly nervose, and the racemes of 

 flowers terminating scapes from 2 to 3 feet high ; the sepals and petals are lanceo- 

 late acuminate, white outside, soft pale yellow within ; and the lip is three-lobed, 

 as long as the petals, the convolute portion sulphur-yellow, the lateral lobes rounded 

 white, the middle lobe orbicular apiculate, with a white wavy recurved margin, 

 yellow on the disk, and a conical curved greenish spur.- — Australia : Queensland. 



Fia.—Bot. Mag., t. 6032. 



Syn. — P. Bernaysii. 



P. BLUMEI SANDERIANUS, Hon.— This fine and distinct variety was im- 

 ported from the north of Assam, and was exhibited at the Temple Show of the 

 Royal Horticultural Society in May, 1892, when it was awarded a first class 

 certificate. " The sepals and petals are glossy bronze in colour ; the lip very 

 large, with a bold margin of white, having a large blotch of a dusky rose shade." 

 — Assam. 



