PERISTERIA Cerina. Scapes short, pendu- Each 
lous; flowers in dense racemes; light citron 
yellow. $2.50 
P. elata (Dove Orchid. Espiritu Santo). The 
erect flower scapes are from 3 to 5 feet in 
height. The flowers are waxen white and 
globular in shape. The inner parts of each 
flower resemble a clove with outspread wings. 
Colombia and Central America.$1.50 to 2.50 
PESCATOREA cerina. A bulbless plant, flow¬ 
ers some 3 inches across; of a pale waxy straw 
color, lip yellow, sometimes with a band of 
deep purple. Costa Rica. 2.50 
P. Dayana. Colombia. 5.00 
P. Klabochorum. Flowers large, white, with 
purplish crimson lip. September. 5.00 
PHAIUS grandifolius. A stately evergreen 
terrestrial species, with radical scapes 3 to 4 
ft. high, bearing long erect racemes of showy 
flowers. Winter and Spring. China. .$2.50 to 5.00 
PIIAIUS X Cooksonii. 15.00 
P. X Norman (P. grandi/olius X Humblotii). 15.00 
PIIALAENOPSIS. These plants grow in the 
hottest regions of the globe and mostly very 
near the water, where the air is quite moist. 
They grow best in a temperature of about 
70°, in baskets filled with moss and charcoal. 
The flowers are extremely beautiful. Philippine 
Islands. 
Oncidium varicosum Rogersii. See page 41. 
Oncidium sarcodes. See page 41. 
P. ambalis. Flowers pure white, 4 to 5 inches Each 
across. One of the most beautiful of all Or¬ 
chids. December-March. Luzon. (See il¬ 
lustration, page 43.).$3.00 to $5.00 
P. Cynthia. Supposed natural hybrid between 
P. Schilleriana and P. amabilis. Flowers 
large, rose-colored. 35.00 
P. Esmeralda. Flowers variable, about an inch 
across, light or dark amethyst-purple, lip 
deep purple on many-flowered scapes; 15 to 
30 inches high. Fall. Cochin China. 5.00 
P. Luddemanniana. A beautiful sweet-scented 
Orchid with variable flowers; whitish, marked 
with transverse amethyst bars and marks. 
Philippines.$5.00 to 10.00 
P. Luddemanniana var. Ochracea. . . 7.50 to 10.00 
j P. Sanderiana. Flowers large, rose-pink, 
| mottled with white, lip white, spotted with 
I pale rose. 7.50 
P. Schilleriana. Teauncles sometimes 3 to 4 
ft. long, branched, bearing flowers 3 to 3 J^ 
inches in diameter, but less when flowers are 
very numerous. Of delicate rose-purple suf¬ 
fused with white.$ 3.00 to 5.00 
P. Stuartiana . 7.50 to 10.00 
PIIOLIDOTA imbricata . 2.50 
PLATYCLINIS autumnalis giganteum. A 
very large-growing species from the Philip¬ 
pines, with racemes somewhat more slender 
than P. glumacea, but attaining a length of 12 
to 18 inches. Yellowish-white, sweet-scented. 
October-November.$3.50 to 5.00 
P. Cobbiana. 7.50 
P. cucumerinum. 5.00 
P. filiformis. 3.50 
P. glumacea. February-March. 3 50 
P. latifolia. 3.50 
RENANTIIERA coccinea. Burma. 10.00 
R. Imschootiana. A handsome Orchid with 
bright, vermilion-colored flowers on large 
scapes. Early Spring. Burma.$5.00 to 10.00 
R. Storiei. Philippines. 15.00 
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