PHAJUS. 



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P. COOKSONII, Uolfe. — A very beautiful and highly interesting plant, being 

 a hybrid raised by N. C. Cookson, Esq., to whom it is dedicated. It is the first 

 true hybrid Phajus ever raised, and is the result of a cross between P. Wallichii 

 and P. tuherculosus. It is of bold growing habit, with small ovate pseudobulbs, 

 which produce numerous oblong acute leaves, from 2 to 3 feet long, of a rich 

 deep green ; scape erect, bearing near the summit from nine to twelve of its 

 large and beautifully coloured flowers, which last a long time in perfection ; 

 sepals and petals oblong, lanceolate, the latter somewhat narrower than the 





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PHAjnS COOKSONII. 



(From the QardcTwrs' Chronicle.') 



former, light rose with a shade of yellow, deepest in colour in the middle ; lip 

 three-lobed, broadly oval, the basal half convolute over the column where the 

 colour is greenish yellow, the middle lobe crisped and beautifully undulated at 

 the edge, the recurved tips of the side-lobes of a deep rosy-purple, the apical 

 part soft rose spotted with dark rosy-purple ; throat tawny yellow, which is 

 continued into a stripe to the apex. A fine specimen of this rare hybrid is in 

 the collection of M. le Comte Adrien de Germiny, of Gouville, France. 



-eiGr.—Gard. C7«w., 3rd.ser.,1890,vii.p.389,f. 57;i?e*c/iraJffc/«ff,2udser.,i.t. U; 

 Oi-cldd Album, x. t. 478. 



P. GRANDIFOLIUS, Loureiro.— -This noble evergreen terrestrial Orchid is an 

 old inhabitant of our gardens, having been introduced upwards of a century ago. 

 It has largish ovate pseudobulbs, oblong-lanceolate acute plicately neryose leaves, 

 and radical scapes 3 feet or upwards in height, bearing long erect racemes of 

 showy flowers, of which the oblong lanceolate sepals and petals are white on the 

 outer surface, and of a chocolate brown within ; the oblong cucuUate lip, the 

 base of which is folded over the column, is white stained with yellow on the 

 throat and disk, and there veined with crimson, the sides of the convolute 



