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parts than those of the type, and are marked with fewer and larger spots ; the 

 anterior lobe of the lip is rhombic, and the disk and callus are deep orange- 

 yellow densely spotted with brownish-red. 



Fig. — Orelikl Alium, i. t. 39 ; Z'lU. Sort., 3rd ser., t. 540 (_StuaHiana). 



P. STUARTIANA PUNCTATISSIMA, iJc7i6. /.— This is a distinct and pleasing 

 variety, in which the flowers in their general coloration are like those of the 

 t3-pe, that is, the lower halves of the lateral sepals and the lip are heavily 

 spotted with brownish-red, and the callus and lower parts of the side lobes of 

 the lip are yellow also spotted with red, in addition to which the sepals and 

 petals are everywhere ornamented by innumerable small mauve-red spots on 

 the parts which are normally white. The plant figured as P. Stuartiana 

 punchdaia in the Lindenia (t. 8) appears to be the same form. 



Fig. — Lindenia, 1. 1. 8 (_pwnotulata). 



P. SUMATRANA, Korihals. — ^A remarkable plant which flowered for the first 

 time in this country with the late J. Day, Esq., in 1865. The leaves are few, 

 obovatc-oblong acute, 6 inches long, 

 somewhat fleshy and of a bright green 

 colour. The peduncles are axillary, 

 spreading, five- to ten-flowered, the 

 flowers about 2\ inches across, and 

 rather more in depth ; the oblong 

 sepals and cuneate- oblong petals 

 yellowish-white, transversely barred 

 with rich reddish-brown ; the lip 

 narrow, three-lobed, its lateral lobes 

 terminated behind in a curved tooth, 

 yellow in front, and the middle lobe 

 ligulate oblong, keeled, with four 

 lines of \-iolet-purple, two on each 

 side the dense tuft of hairs which 

 runs out to the apex ; the anther-lid 

 is fringed after the manner of 

 Trichopilia. It requires the same 

 treatment as the other species of 

 Fhalaenopsis. — Sumatra : Palemhang. 



Fig.— Bot. Mag., t. 5527 ; Gard. Cliron., 1865, p. 507, with fig. ; Floro des Serves, 

 t. 1644; Batem. Second Cent. Orch. PI., t. 146; S'lei., Flore des Jard., 1861, t. 10; 

 Lindenia, ii. t. 52. 



Syh. — P. zeirina. 



P. SUMATRANA KIMBALLIANA, Bchh.f.—A. very fine and distinct variety, 

 having broad sepals and petals which are yellow, transversely striped with red, 

 lip ochre-colour, side laciniae orange, anterior portion of lip hairy. It is 

 dedicated to W. J. Kimball, Esq., of Rochester, New York, one of the largest 

 patrons of Orchids in America. 



P. TETRASPIS, J?c7i&./. — A chaste beautiful very free-flowering species, in 

 growth resembling P. sumatrana, the stem bearing but few leaves. The leaves 



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