Refugium Botanicum. | (June, 1869. 
TAB. 85. 
Tribe VANDE&. 
Genus Puanznopsis, Bl. 
P. Parisuit (Rehb. f. in V. Mohl. and Schlecht. Bot. Zeit. 1865, p. 
146!) Radicibus aéreis ligulatis depressis lucidis, foliis cuneato- 
oblongis acutis bidentatis carnoso-coriaceis, racemis usque septem- 
floris synanthiis, bracteis triangulis acutis ovaria pedicellata longe 
non equantibus, sepalo summo oblongo-ligulato ‘wbtuse acuto, 
sepalis lateralibus semiovato triangulis extus carinatis, tepalis late 
spatulatis obtuse acutis retusiusculis, labelli cum pede columne 
producto angulati partitionibus lateralibus lato-ligulatis acutis intus 
lobuloso callosis, erectis, partitione media cordato-triangula maxima, 
callo ligulato erecto apice quadriseto in basi, linea callosa semiovata 
in denticulos soluta anteposita, columna erecta utrinque basi angu- 
lato dilatata, rostello bifido elongato, labello pulchre amethystino 
seu violaceo. — Rchb. fil. Xenia Orchidacea, ii. Tab. 156, i. 1— 
10! 
Var. Lopsir. Labelli linea callosa semiovata magis tumida, toto labello 
albo, vitta lata longitudinali castanea utrinque. 
We always feel very scrupulous in stating who has discovered 
a species. ‘ Three months ago we should have believed that the 
Rey. Mr. Parish, whose botanical merits are beyond all praise, 
was the discoverer; and yet he is not, the same species having 
been gathered by T. Lobb so early as 1845, in the Eastern 
Himalaya. There is only a difference in colour, his specimens 
bearing two broad brown bands between three white bands. We 
are indebted for a good specimen to Messrs. Veitch, who had 
most accidentally failed to give it to Dr. Lindley. The plant was 
sent, we believe, in 1864, from Burmah, by the Rev. Mr. Parish 
to Mr. Low. We saw the plant in 1865, with J. Day, Esq., and 
obtained flowers from the garden of J. Dawson, Esq. We also 
obtained flowers from Messrs. Veitch, and from the Royal Gar- 
dens, Kew. All these belong to the violet-lipped form, taken by 
us as the type. 
Aérial roots broad-ligulate, extended, usually very shining. 
Stem very short. Leaves cuneate-oblong, acute, with two teeth: 
we have never seen more than two on a plant. Peduneles arising 
very freely, frequently two on a very small plant, three- to seven- 
