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roots of this plant are very distinct, being flat and rough, and, moreover, very 

 free in growth ; the leaves are oblong-obtuse, 6 to 18 inches long, beautifully 

 variegated, being of a dark green colour, mottled with irregular bands or 

 streaks of greyish-white on the upper side, the under surface purple ; the scapes 

 or peduncles are produced from the axils of the leaves, and in their native 

 country are sometimes more than 3 feet long, and more branched than those of 

 other kinds ; the individual blossoms measure more than 3 inches across, and 

 are arranged in two rows along the spike ; the obovate sepals and larger rhom- 

 boid petals are of a beautiful light mauve, edged with white ; the lip, which is 

 three-lobed, with rounded lateral lobes, and an oval central one, split at the end 

 into a pair of divergent curved horns, is of the same colour with darker spots, 

 the disk bearing a four-cornered callus, which is yellow spotted with reddish- 

 brown, and the miiddle part handsomely spotted — indeed the whole aspect of the 

 plant is very attractive. The flowers, which are produced in summer, continue 

 for several weeks in full perfection. There are many different varieties of this 

 plant. Mr. Warner sent a specimen to the St. Petersburg Exhibition in 1869, 

 which had one hundred and twenty expanded blooms upon it, and presented a 

 most glorious spectacle. The accompanying illustration was taken from a plant 

 which flowered in the garden of Lady Ashburton at Melchet Court; it was 

 figured in the Gardeners' Chronicle, 1875, and we are indebted to the editors of 

 that periodical for the use of the block. This plant bore three panicles of 

 flowers bearing respectively 96, 108, and 174 blossoms, making a total of 378. — 

 Philippine Islands. 



YlG:.— Warner, Sd. Oreh. PI., i. t. 1 ; Bot. Mag., t. 5530 ; Xcnia Orch., ii. t. 101 ; 

 Flore diis Scrres, tt. 1559—60 ; L'lU. Hort., t. 348 ; VHrn-t. Frang., 1863, t. 11 ; Journ. 

 Sac. d'Hort. Par., 1862, t. 609 ; Jenniiujs, Orch., t. 15 ; Batem. Second Orch. PI., t. 171 ; 

 Gard. Chron., N.S., iv. p. 169, i. 34 (specimen plp-nt) ; Puydt, Les Orch., t. 35 ; Warner, 

 Sel. Orch. PI., iii. t. 5 (jiplendens) ; Floral Mag., 2nd ser., t. 257 (jdelic.ata) ; L'Orchido- 

 phile, 1884, p. 279 (plate) ; Bevue Hort., 1SS7, p. 396 (splcndens) ; Gard. Chroii.,3vdsev., 

 1888, iii. p. 529, f. 72 ; Lindenia, v. t. 227 ; Veitch's Man. Orch. PL, vii. p. 37. 



P. SCHILLERIANA PURPUREA, O'Brien.— A fine deep-coloured variety with 

 bluish-purple flowers ; the lower portions of the sepals and lip being spotted. 

 First flowered with Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., of Clapton. 



P. SCHILLERIANA VESTALIS, Bchb. /.—In this plant we have a white- 

 flowered form of P. Schilleriana, which was first bloomed by Messrs. Low & Co., 

 of Clapton. — Philippine Islands. 



P. SPECIOSA, Bchb. f. — This handsome species, allied to P. Lilddeman- 

 niana and P. tetraspis, was introduced by Major-General Berkeley. It has 

 large yellowish-green cuneate-oblong obtusely-acute leaves, and racemes or 

 panicles of elegant stellate flowers, which are very freely produced. The sepals 

 and petals are whitish-rose outside with rows of purple blotches, purple inside 

 with a few white bars at the base of the petals, the side lobes of the lip yellow, 

 white at the top and base, the mid lobe white and rosy -purple, or wholly purple, 

 with a tuft of hairs at the apex. This species seems to vary a good deal, some 

 of the varieties having the blossoms much blotched and showing very little 

 white. The flowers are also said to be very fragrant. " This plant does not 

 grow in the mangrove swamps, but on large trees, fully exposed to the air ; 



