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are dark green, stout, ouneate-obovate oblong acute, and the flowers, whicb are 

 said to bave a fine perfume, are produced in rich drooping panicles, and have 

 the general shape of those of P. sumatrana; they are ivory or waxy white, 

 shining, with a trifid lip, of which the erect retuse side lobes have each a blotch 

 in the centre, and the convex ligulate central lobe bears a large felt-like cushion. 

 It flowers during the summer months. " This plant grows on mangrove and 

 other trees, in very muddy swamps ; it is never found growing under any other 

 conditions ; it is only found on trees at the extreme end of the creeks, where the 

 water is sweet ; the plant is found hanging from the branches a few feet above 

 the water ; here it grows with the most extraordinary luxuriance ; it may be 

 said to grow in a continual vapour bath, and as the swamps have a. very 

 obnoxious smell, it is no doubt supplied with many chemical compositions 

 which enhance its growth " (Major-Gen. E. S. Berkeley, in Gardeners' Chronicle, 

 1887). — India; Himalayas. 

 Fig.— Bot. Mag., t. 7321. 



P. VALENTINI, Bchh.f. — This plant is probably a natural hybrid between 

 P. comu-cervi and P. violacea. The flowers are larger than those of the former 

 species and smaller than those of the latter; the leaves are light green, narrower 

 than in P. violacea, and without the wavy crispness usually seen in that species ; 

 the sepals and petals are ouneate-oblong, purple, the lateral sepals and petals white 

 at the base inside and marked with purple bands ; the lip is similar to that of 

 P. violacea, the side lobes with a spreading angle at the upper corner, white with 

 purple spots on the upper border, the front lobe pandurate, three-parted at the 

 top, which is mauve, and bearing a thick umbo in the middle; the disk is yellow, 

 as also is the column, the latter with red stripes at the top. — Malay Archipelago. 



P. VEITCHIANA, Rchh.f. — This species is supposed to be a natural mule 

 between P. rosea and P. Schilleriana. The leaves are cuneate oblong rather 

 obtuse, faintly and obscurely tessellated ; the flower scape is similar to P. rosea 

 but longer, while the flowers are not so close together as in that species but more 

 nearly resemble P. Schilleriana, only they are smaller, purplish, with whitish 

 margins to the sepals and petals ; the lip is three-parted, the lateral lobes large 

 bluntly cuneate oblong, bright purple, with a triangular yellow brown-spotted 

 callus between them, the anterior lobe oblong, narrowed and f orcipate in front, 

 the teeth being straight, not arched or tendril-like, and the colour a rich deep 

 purple with a pale whitish or lilac margin. — Philippine Islands. 



Fig. — Floral Mag., 2nd ser., t. 213. 



P. VEITCHIANA BRACHYODON, Bchh. /.—In this form the sepals and 

 petals are pure white, the lateral sepals with brown spots at the inner and 

 superior part of the base, and having a slight tinge of sulphur; the side lobes 

 of the lip are purple at the top, white at the base, the anterior lobe is dark 

 purple verging to brown, with some spots of the same colour on the whitish- 

 ochre ground and margins; the apical teeth short so that the lip is rather retuse 

 or bidentate than forcipate as in the type. — Philippine Islands. 



P. VIOLACEA, Teijsmann et Binnendijk. — A distinct and richly coloured 

 species, which has large broad bright green leaves, and very short peduncles. 



