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spathulate, also white ; lijD yellowish- white mottled and suffused with reddish- 

 purple. It has been named in honour of the late Hon. F. L. Ames, of North 

 Easton, Mass., U.S.A.— Garden hybrid. 



Fig.— (Sflr(Z. Chron., 3rd ser., 1888, iii. p. 201, f . 32 ; VeitcKe Man. Orch. PI., vii.p. 48. 



P. FORSTERMANII, Bclib. /.—Described as a "small, modest, and yet -very- 

 elegant species," named in honour of its discoverer, Mr. Porsterman. Leaves 

 cuneate obovate, unequally bidentate at the apex; flowers small, white; 

 sepals and petals cuneate lanceolate, with very thin forked or hieroglyphic 

 brown transverse lines inside ; lateral lobes of the lip square, oblong, a little 

 recurved, soimitar-shaped, retuse, with a retrorse bristle, and an oblique keel 

 outside ; a yellow callus on the inner side of each ; mid-lobe tridentate at the 

 apex. — Native country not stated. 



P. GLORIOSA, Rchh. /. — This handsome plant was introduced by the late 

 Mr. Stuart Low, and is allied to P. amabilis, Lindl., but differs from that species 

 in having a narrow deep callus bidentate at the apex. The leaves are described 

 as being " quite blunt, and broad at the apex, light green on both sides, slightly 

 silvered on the upper surface ; " flowers set closely, pure white ; petals very 

 broadly spathulate shortly stalked; lip with four or five streaks of bright 

 maroon on each side of the callus, and a triangular blotch of the same colour 

 in front of it ; side laciniae with a very short stalk. — Native country not stated. 



Via.— The Garden, 1889, xxxv. p. 362, t. 697. 



P. GRANDIFLORA, Lindl. — A truly handsome and noble Orchid, second to 

 none of which we as yet possess any precise knowledge. In its general 

 character it is similar to P. amabilis. The plant is ebulbous, but the leaves are 

 longer, and of a lighter green than in P. a/mabilis, distichous, oblong apiculate, 

 and very thick ; the flower scapes spring from the sides of the leaf tufts in the 

 same way as in P. a/mabilis. The chief difference between the two, besides that 

 of the length of the leaves, is that P. grandiflora has considerably larger flowers, 

 with the front edge of the side lobes of the lip yellow instead of rose-colour, the 

 cirrhi at the tip of the linear hastate middle lobe being also yellow, not white ; 

 the flower stems are tinted with'purple. This makes a fine plant for exhibition. 

 It blooms at different times of the year, and lasts long in beauty. — Java ; Borneo. 



Fig. — Bot. Mag., t. 5184 ; Oard. Chrm., 1848, p. 39, with fig. ; Batem. Second Cent: 

 Orch. Pl.,t.lU; L'lTort.I'rang., 1860, t. 19; Pmjdt, Les Orch., t. 34 ; Gard. Chron.^, 

 U.S., 1886, xxvi. p. 213, f. 43a ; Orchid Album, vi. t. 277. 



Syn. — P. amabilis (Blume — fide Kchb.) 



P. GRANDIFLORA AUREA, iforf.— This is certainly the grandest of the 

 many varieties of this noble Orchid. It is a compact-growing plant, with 

 distichous tufts of leathery oblong leaves of a light green colour, and very large 

 flowers, which have the sepals and petals unusually broad and rounded, and of 

 the normal opaque or iyory white, the lip being conspicuously marked with deep 

 orange over its whole anterior portion, the front sides of the lateral lobes and 

 the terminal cirrhi being more deeply coloured than the other parts. The 

 variety is distinguishable by its yellowish-green flower stems, which are 

 developed at different times of the year. — Borneo ; Tamelan Islands. 



Fig. — Warner, Se!. 'Oreh. PI. ii. t. 7 ; Ileichenlaehia, 1. 1. 11. 



