SOME OF THE BEST NEW ORCHIDS. 



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blooms profusely. The flowers are on erect spikes a 

 foot high and are pinkish white, dotted with rose, meas- 

 uring an inch across. 



Pliaius. — About ten years ago a new phaius, called 

 tiilH-rctilosus, was discovered and brought home from 

 Madagascar. Being of great beauty and quite distinct 

 from the others known, it attracted great attention. 

 Since then two others belonging to the same group have 

 been introduced, viz., P. Hitinboldtii and P. Henryi. 



During the past summer a considerable number of these 

 have flowered and quite fulfill the expectations formed 

 about them. P. Jli'iiiyi, however, proves to be no more 

 than a color variety of P. Hiiinboldtii. This species has 

 short, clustering pseudo bulbs, and pale green plaited 

 leaves about a foot long. The flower-spike is erect, a 

 foot to fifteen inches high, the flowers (of which there 

 are three to six), being oblong in outline, two inches in 

 depth and mainly of a pretty lilac color. The lip, which 

 is handsomely lobed and frilled at the edge, has an 



orange-colored patch at the base. It grows in damp, 

 shady places in Madagascar. 



Caltleyas. — This genus shares with cyprioedium and 

 odontoglossum the first place in public favor. Although 

 no startling additions have recently been made to the 

 species already in cultivation, some very beautiful vari- 

 eties have appeared, especially in the huge labiate sec- 

 tion of the genus. One of the finest of these is C. Mas- 

 saiana, a form, or at least an ally, of the gorgeous C. 



HarJyana. It has large flowers, with rosy-mauve sepals 

 and petals, and a lip of the richest rosy-crimson, two 

 blotches and several streaks of yellow occuring in the 

 throat. In the same class is C. Doiaiana, var. cliryso- 

 toxa, a variety with larger flowers than the true C. 

 Doiuiana. The outer segments are bright yellow, and 

 the lip, which is beautifully frilled, has a ground color 

 of deep golden-yellow, veined with crimson in the 

 throat and at the edges, leaving a large and conspicuous 

 blotch of golden-yellow at each side of the disk. C. 



Fig. 3. Pi-iAL.ENOPbis Harriet.e. (See page 92.) 



