. The orchid-grower's manual, containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants in cultivation ... Orchids. PHYSURUS. 675 on which, as far as wo have seen, one or two flowers only open at a time. The flowers measure each about 2 inches in diameter; the lower portions of the sepals and petals and the lip are a rich rosy-purple with the upper portions yellow. The colouring is quite unique, and the flowers, which are deliciously scented, are produced during the summer months. There are several fine varieties distin- guished by names.—Malay Archipelago. -piQ.—Stel).,
. The orchid-grower's manual, containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants in cultivation ... Orchids. PHYSURUS. 675 on which, as far as wo have seen, one or two flowers only open at a time. The flowers measure each about 2 inches in diameter; the lower portions of the sepals and petals and the lip are a rich rosy-purple with the upper portions yellow. The colouring is quite unique, and the flowers, which are deliciously scented, are produced during the summer months. There are several fine varieties distin- guished by names.—Malay Archipelago. -piQ.—Stel)., Flore lies Jard.,'l%^\, t. 9; Orehid Album, iv. t. 182 ; Floral Mng., 2nd ser., t. 342 ; Lindenia,yii. t. 303 ; Veittik'ii Man. Oroh. PL, vii. p. 42. P. VIOLACEA BOWRINGIANA, —A distinct variety, with flowers of a pure light yellow, having a very broad dash of purple inside each of the lateral sepals, and some fine bands and numerous freckles of the same colour at the bases of the petals and of the upper sepal.— Malay Archipelago. P. VIOLACEA SCHRODERIANA, lichh. /.—In this handsome variety the lower halves of the sepals and petals, instead of being wholly covered with rosy-purple, are marked with broken mauve-purple lines, at first sight reminding one of P. Liiddemanniana. It was named in honour of Baron Sir J. H. W. Schroder, The Dell, Staines.—Malay Archipelago. Fig.—L'lll. Hort., xxxiii. t. 576. P. ZEBRINA.—See P. PHALAKNOPSIS VIOLACEA. PHYSURUS, Richard. {Tribe Keottieae, subtribe Spirantheae.) A charming genus of dwarf variegated terrestrial Orchids, resembling Anoedochilus in their general habit, and like them producing beautiful foliage elegantly marked with metallic variegations. The flowers are small, sub-ringent, in erect spikes, and agree 'with those of Anoedochilus in having the lip spurred at the base, biit differ in the intermediate portion being hollow and abruptly contracted, the limb being spreading or recurved. About twen
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