THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
PHAIUS TUBERCULOSUS. 
ANOTHER case of cunfusion in nomenclature has to be recorded. Some 
time ago M. G. Warpur brought from Madagascar a number of interest- 
ing Orchids, and among them a handsome Phaius which he reported as 
much like P. tuberculosus in the flowers, though terrestrial in habit. 
A painting of the inflorescence I had taken for P. tuberculosus until M. 
Fic. 7. PHAIUS TUBERCULOSUS. 
Warpur pointed out some tufted rhizomes as belonging to the same 
species, and remarked that when out of flower the two bore no 
resemblance to each other. Some of the plants have been grown on at 
Kew, and. during the winter spikes began to’ push up, and their progress 
tere 
has naturally been watched with much interest. When the flowers 
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