﻿March, 1904.] 



THE ORCHID REVIEW. 



73 



PL AT YC LIN IS GLUMACEA VAR. VALIDA. 



The species of Platyclinis are among the most graceful of spring-flowering 

 Orchids, and are moreover very easily cultivated, so that good specimens of 

 several of the species are frequently met with. P. glumacea is one of the 

 best known, and produces pendulous racemes of greenish white flowers, 

 which are distichously arranged on the inflorescence, as shown in the 

 illustration. The latter represents a particularly strong-growing variety, 

 known as variety valida, and differing from the type in having much 

 broader leaves. It was described at page 115 of our first volume, in 1893, 



Fig. 18. Platycl 



at which time it was known from at least three different collections, but it 

 afterwards came out that it had then been known in the collection of O. O. 

 Wrigley, Esq., Bridge Hall, Bury, for some eight years, and the circum- 

 stances of its original introduction do not seem to have been recorded. In 

 fact it was at first known as P. latifolia, doubtless owing to its broad leaves, 

 but this name belongs to a quite distinct plant. The specimen here 

 figured flowered in that collection, and its graceful character is very well 

 shown in the photograph. It is a native of the Philippine Islands. All 



