662 orchid-grower's manual. 



P. ANTENNIFERA, Bchh.f.—Vhia species is in the way of F. Esmeralda, but 

 is totally distinct in colour. It -was introduced and flowered by us for the first 

 time. The plants have the habit of P. Esmeralda, but are altogether stronger, 

 and the foliage is entirely green ; the flowers grow on scapes upwards of 2 feet 

 long, and have the same shape as those of the species just named; the sepals 

 and petals are light rose colour, the tips of the sepals brick rod outside ; and 

 the unguiculate lip is tri-fid, the side laciniae and basilar antennae deep orange 

 striped with red, and the anterior lobe amethyst. "We have had plants of this 

 species producing a branched inflorescence. It blooms in September and 

 October. — Burmah. 



P. APHRODITE.— See P. amabilis. 



P. BRYMERIANA. — See P. intermedia Brymekiana. 



P. BUYSSONIANA, Bchh.f.—A. fine species, dedicated to M. le Comte F. Du 

 Buysson, a distinguished Belgian Orchidist. It is allied to P. ReghieriarM, but 

 the flowers are far brighter in colour. " The sepals and petals are of a bright 

 purple hue, the lateral sepals are bordered inside with white; petals much 

 broader than those of P. Begnieriana, and appear always to be hooded over the 

 column; the processes on the stalk of the lip are median, filiiorm-linear, not 

 triangular as in P. Begnieriana ; the three spreading laciniae of the anterior 

 part of the lip are equal, lanceolate-oblong, blunt-acute ; there is an emarginate 

 .ismall callus at the beginning of the stalk, and in front of it stands on the disk 

 between the side laciniae, a thickened line with two furrows ; the three laciniae 

 =are of a vivid scarlet inside, side-laciniae outside ochre-coloured with numerous 

 scarlet lines" (H. G. Eeichenbach, in Gardeners' Chronicle, 3rd ser., 1888, iv. 

 p. 29&).— Cochin China {?) 



P. CASTA, Rclhb.f. — This plant is supposed to be a natural mule, having 

 'the leaves of P. Schilleriana and the flowers of P. amabilis. The leaves are 

 slightly spotted in the young state, but the spots disappear as they attain 

 ■maturity ; the flowers are white as in P. am,dhilis, the bases of the upper sepals 

 ;and petals being slightly tinted with purple, and those of the lateral sepals 

 ,spotted ; the callus resembles that of P. amabilis. — Philippine Islands. 



Fig. — Orchid Album, v. t. 229 ; Bi'ichertbaohia, ii. t. 87. 



P. CORNINGIANA, Bchb. f. — A handsome species allied to P. su-matrana, 

 I)ut quite distinct in the peculiar callosity of the base of the lip. The sepals are 

 bluntly keeled on the outer surface, the upper one cuneate-oblong, marked with 

 longitudinal purple-brown stripes and a, few transverse bars at its base, the 

 longitudinal bars merging into numerous hieroglyphical blotches ; the deflexed 

 lateral sepals are almost wholly purple-brown bordered and spotted with 

 yellowish- white ; the cuneate oblong-ligulate petals are marked with longi- 

 tudinal purple-brown bars and blotches, and the lip, which is bent in front of 

 the claw so as to stand forward, has its side lobes erect ligulate retvise, with a 

 small bristle on the upper angle, white, yellow on the umbonate callus in the 

 middle, the central part oblong-ligulate, of a rich violet-purple, with a tuft of 

 hairs on the anterior middle line. It is named in honour of Erastus Coi-ning, 

 Esq., of Albany, N.Y. The plant flowers during the spring months. — Eastern 

 Archipelago. 



