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of a rich deep magonta-purple margined with white. It was discovered by 

 Mr. F. W. Burbidge when collecting for Messrs. Veitch & Sons. — Sunda Isl&s^ 



Fia.— Orchid Album, ii. t. 80; J?o.'. 3{ag., t. 6964; Jovr.i. of Ilort., 18%9, xviii. 

 p. 213, f. 32. 



P. PARISHII, BcU. /.—A "lovely little plant," with thick fleshy roots, 

 distichous tufts of oblong-lanceolate acute deep green leathery leaves from 2 to 

 4 inches long, and short six- to ten-flowered racemes, the flowers actually small, 

 being less than 1 inch in diameter, but comparatively large and effective for 

 the size of the plants, from their being numerous with the parts well spread out ; 

 the sepals are oblong or ovate, the petals obovate spathulate, both white, and 

 the lip has the lateral lobes small, horn-like, yellow with purple blotches, and 

 the front lobe broadly triangular, spread out, and of a rich deep amethyst- 

 purple ; the disk has a semi-lunar callus, the edge of which is broken up into a 

 fimbriate crest, and behind this is a projecting linear appendage divided into 

 four slender filaments almost as long as the lobe itself. The strong contrast of 

 colour in the rather crowded flowers renders the plant very beautiful when in 

 blossom, which occurs during the summer season. " This plant, a native of 

 Moulmein, loses its leaves, during the dry weather, in moist localities. If the 

 rains set in late, before the leaves get a fair start, it is not unusual to see the 

 plant in flower before the leaves develop. It is generally found on boughs of 

 trees covered with moss, where it is snbject to great heat and moisture during the 

 growing season. In cultivation it will retain its leaves throughout the winter if 

 the moss at the roots is kept slightly damp (not wet) during the resting season " 

 (Major General E. S. Berkeley, in Gardeners' Chronicle, 1887). — Burmah ; Eastern 

 Himalaya. 



Fia.—£ot. 3Iag., t. 581.5 ; Xenia Oroh., ii. t. 156, f. 1 ; Bcfiig. Bot., ii. t. 85. 



P. PROBOSCIDIOIDES— See P. Lowii. 



P. REGNIERIANA.— See P. Esmeealda. 



P. REICHENBACHIANA, Bchb.f. et Sander.— In growth this plant resembles 

 P. Liiddemanniana. It is a distinct species, with leaves upwards of a foot long, 

 and nearly 3 inches broad, strongly keeled, and a stout unbranched peduncle 

 1| foot long, bearing from one to two dozen flowers equal to those of a flne 

 P. sumatrana; the sepals and petals are cream-coloured, irregularly blotched 

 and barred with dull reddish-purple, the lip triangular dilated mauve-blue with 

 the side lobes orange and white ; the anterior disk bears a cushion of hairs. — 

 East Tropical Asia. 



P. ROSEA, Lindl. — ^A rather small-flowered but pretty species. The islant 

 forms a tuft of leathery oblong convex or recurved leaves 6 to 8 inches long, and 

 of a bright light green colour ; the scape is lateral, about 1 J foot in height, stiff 

 and ascending, branched, with a drooping purplish panicle of some dozen or 

 more flowers, which are an inch across; the sepals and petals are oblong- 

 lanceolate, white, slightly tinged with rose-pink, especially along the centre ; the 

 lip with the front lobe ovate acuminate, ascending, deep violet in the centre, the 

 side lobes linear-spathulate, oblique, incurved, stained in some varieties with 

 rich orange, the crest concave, lunate, rounded. It blooms at different times of 



