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Warm shady house — in fact, without shading the sun will soon destroy 

 them ; they, moreover, require more moisture when grown without the 

 glasses. For further particulars see Anoedochilus . 



P. ARGENTEUS, Loudon. — A handsome distinct free-growing species, of 

 decumbent habit, having pale green stems 4 or 6 inches in height, with cordate 

 ovate leaves 2| inches long and 1| inch broad, the ground colour light green, 

 with the numerous veins marked out by well-defined silvery lines. It does not 

 require so much care as some others ; indeed, we have seen it grown in a warm 

 house in a shady place, without a bell glass, with a good supply of water at the 

 roots. — Brazil. 



Syn. — Anoectochilus ao'genteus. 



P. ARGENTEUS PICTUS.-See P. pictus. 



P. FIMBRILLARIS, Lindl. — A very pretty species, which has ovate leaves 

 exquisitely veined with silver, on a dark green ground, in the way of P. argenteus ; 

 the flowers, however, which are white, have broader sepals, marked outside by a 

 central line of pellucid glands, and the lip is more inflated, yellow at the tip, 

 where it is also delicately fringed. It was introduced by Mr. Weir to the 

 Horticultural Society's Garden at Chiswick, from the forests about Eio Janeiro, 

 and is one of the choicest of the family. — Brazil. 



P. MACULATUS, Hooh. — This well-marked species has very stout vermicular 

 roots, and upright stems about 6 inches high, furnished with lanceolate acuminate 

 leaves 2^ inches long, of a dark green colour on the upper surface, where they 

 are -marked with two rows of white oblong spots lying parallel with the mid-rib, 

 the under surface pale green ; the flowers are small, yellowish, in short dense 

 spikes just emerging from the uppermost leaves. — Ecuador. 



Fig.— -Bot. Mag., t. 5305. 



P. NOBILIS, Bclib. f. — A large and very beautifully marked species, re- 

 sembling P. pictus in the rich variegation of its leaves, but quite different in the 

 fringed lip of its densely spicate flowers ; the leaves are broadlj- oblong acute, 

 of a dark green colour, prettily marked with silvery veins. — Bradl. 



SvN. — AnoeotocMlus noiilix. 



P. ORTGIESII, lichh. f. — A very distinct and curious little species of dwarf 

 habit, with prettily variegated leaves ; they are oblong-ovate with a cuneate 

 base, dark olive-green with a velvet-like surface, silvery along the centre, and 

 having scattered oblong blotches of metallic purple distributed over the entire 

 surface of the leaf, so that it is said to be " mackerel-spotted " ; the flowers are 

 white, in dense spikes. — New Grenada, at high elevations. 



Fig. — Florist and Pomologist, 1872, p. 243, with fig. 



Syn. — Atwectochilns Ortgiesii. 



P. PICTUS, Lindl. — A beautiful and distinct species, growing 4 or 5 inches 

 high, and having the ovate acute leaves 3 inches long and IJ inch broad, each 

 leaf being edged with dark green curiously marked by silvery veins, and having 

 a handsome silver-frosted band down the centre or disk; the flowers are 

 small and grow in short spikes ; white with a bar of blackish brown on each 

 sepal and petal. It rivals the Wana Bcijah (King of the Woods) of Ceylon in 



