. The orchid-grower's manual : containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants . EOMSONIANA. PACHYSTOMA. 507 PachYSTOMA, Blume.[Tribe Epidendrtse, subribe Eriese.) A small genus of Orchids allied to Tpsea, and producingfrom the rhizomes one or two-leaved pseudobulbs, oftendeveloped later on, and having simple leafless scapes bearingthe flowers in short racemes. There are about ten speciesfound in West Tropical Africa and the Malayan is included in the genus by some authorities. Culture.—This plant is best grown in a pot in a compostof fibrous
. The orchid-grower's manual : containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants . EOMSONIANA. PACHYSTOMA. 507 PachYSTOMA, Blume.[Tribe Epidendrtse, subribe Eriese.) A small genus of Orchids allied to Tpsea, and producingfrom the rhizomes one or two-leaved pseudobulbs, oftendeveloped later on, and having simple leafless scapes bearingthe flowers in short racemes. There are about ten speciesfound in West Tropical Africa and the Malayan is included in the genus by some authorities. Culture.—This plant is best grown in a pot in a compostof fibrous peat, and sphagnum moss, and with good should be grown in the East Indian house as near the lightas PACHYSTOMA THOMSO^IANUM. P. Thomsonianum, Rchb. f.—A very pretty dwarf-growingplant, with small depressed orbicular tunicate pseudobulbs,solitary erect elliptic lanceolate plicate leaves, and erect slenderscapes from the base of the bulbs bearing from one to three Y 2 508 oECHiD growers manual. flowers, each being from three to three and a half inchesacross and spreading ; the dorsal sepal is erect oblong-lanceo-late acuminate, larger than the rest, the lateral ones beingdecurved, the petals are also lanceolate spreading, all thesebeing pure white ; the lip is one inch long, trifid, with erectconchoid subquadrate lateral lobes, the central one lanceolatetriangular, the apex tapered and recurved, white marked withbroad reddish purple streaks. It flowers in October andNovember.—West Tropical Africa. FiQ.—Bot. Mag., t. 6471; Xenia Orch., iii. t. 213; Gard. Chron., , , fig. 102—3 ; Id., xviii. 601, fig. 87. PaLUMBINA, (Tribe Vandese, subtribe Oncidie^,) The only s
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