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portion being also flushed with crimson both outside and in. It blooms during 

 the winter and spring months, and lasts long in beauty if kept in a cool house. 



This is a most useful plant for winter blooming, 

 as it will flower beautifully when grown in small 

 pots, and in this state may be used for the 

 decoration of apartments during the dull months, 

 without suffering the least injury. It also makes 

 a noble plant for exhibition when grown into a 

 large specimen, but to retard it for this purpose 

 it requires to be kept very cool during autumn 

 and winter. The variety SUPERBUS figured by 

 Van Houtte has the inside of the sepals and 

 petals of a brilliant chamois, and the lip bright 

 amaranth margined with rose. — China; Australia. 



Fm.—Sot Magi., t. 1924 ; Zodd. Sot. Cah.,t. 20 ; 



Flore des Serves, t. 738 (m^erhis) ; Alton, Hort. Kew, 



iii. 1. 12 ; Andr. Sot. S^p., t. 426 ; Schneevogt Icon. PI., t. 5 ; Medoute, Lil., t. 43 ; Gard. 



Chron., 1872, p. 733, f. 176 (specimen plant) ; Id., N.S., xviii.p. 565, f. 99 ; Kerner,Sort. 



Semp., t. 49 ; L'Her. SeH. Aug., t. 28. 



Stn. — Pliajns TanJiervillei ; Sletia Tanhervilliae ; Limodorum TanJiervilUac ; 

 Pachi/ne spectabilis. 



PHAjnS GKASfDIFOLItrS. 



p. GRAVESII.— See P. hybuidus Gkavesii. 



P. HUMBLOTII, Bichh. f. — A remarkable and beautiful new species, which 

 bears its large showy blossoms in few-flowered racemes. The sepals are oblong 

 acute, the petals twice as broad, and the large spurless lip three-lobed, the lateral 

 lobes roundish and brought forward, the middle lobe transversely emarginate, 

 and the disk bearing a fleshy saddle-shaped bi-lamellate callus running out in 

 front into a little keel ; the flowers are rose-coloured with blotches of white and 

 red. A variety was exhibited by 

 Sir T. Lawrence, Bart., in 1886, at 

 South Kensington, being wholly 

 rose-coloured, with a deep rosy- 

 crimson lip. — Madagascar. 



Fig.— Gard. Chron., U.S., 1886, 

 xxvi. p. 173, f . 33 ; Journ. of Hort., 

 1886, xiii. p. 119, f. 17 ; SeiclienhacUa, 

 i. t. 17 ; Le Moniteur d'lTort., 1890, 

 p. 162 ; Lindenia, vi. t. 254 ; Revue 

 Hort. Selge, 1890, p. 265, t. 28 ; Gar- 

 tenflora, 1891, t. 1353 ; Revue Hort., 

 1891, p. 204 (plate) ; Veitch's Man. 

 OrcU. PI., vi. p. 12. 



P. HYBRIDUS, O'Brien. — A 

 cross obtained by N. 0. Oookson, 

 Esq., between P. grandifolius and 



P. Wallichii. " The sepals and petals have traces of the coppery-yellow tint of 

 P. Wallichii, aiid the spur is rather longer than in P. grandifolius, but the keels 

 running down the middle of the lip and its general form are very much as in 

 P. grandifolius." — Garden hyhrid. 



PHAJUS HUMBLOTII. 



